Helping Ukraine is “a relatively modest investment with significant geopolitical returns," the CIA director wrote.

Helping Ukraine is “a relatively modest investment with significant geopolitical returns,” the CIA director wrote.

Western allies must continue providing assistance to Ukraine in its war with Russia this year, or risk a mistake “of historic proportions,” CIA Director William Burns wrote in a column published Tuesday.

Burns laid out his case in a Foreign Affairs column, noting that less than 5 percent of the U.S. defense budget — “a relatively modest investment with significant geopolitical returns” — is all that Washington sends to Kyiv.

If an opportunity for serious negotiations to end the war emerges, he wrote, providing arms to Ukraine will put it in a stronger bargaining position. Ukraine’s military would also be able to continue fending off Russian troops while rebuilding its infrastructure, while Moscow spends massive amounts of money to keep the war going, Burns added.

“For the United States to walk away from the conflict at this crucial moment and cut off support to Ukraine would be an own goal of historic proportions,” Burns wrote, referencing a soccer term for scoring a goal for the rival team by putting the ball into a player’s own net.

  • misterundercoat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    775·
    10 months ago

    Anyone with an ounce of common sense: Ya don’t say

    Right-wing useful idots on social media: [Continue to echo Russian propaganda they’ve been saturated with]

    • Murvel@lemm.eeEnglish
      283·
      10 months ago

      Have you been around lemmy even? It’s hardly just right wingers pushing Kremlin propaganda! I mean hexbear, lemmygrad ffs, they shill that shit wholesale like it’s their bread and butter.

      • TooManyFoods@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        10 months ago

        I was using jeroba unlogged in for several months, which defaults to lemmy ml. I logged in a couple of weeks ago which defaults to lemmy world which I’m guessing defederated those two so I haven’t had my bid pressure go up from seeing all the hypocrisy. I know it may give me a view from a walled garden, but technically every lemmy instance is more or less a walled garden. If I understand it right even an instance that tries to federated everything will be one, albeit one that expands their walls to the edge whenever possible.

      • Kusimulkku@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        It’s so weird too considering what sort of state Russia is.

        I guess it’s just USA bad, so Russia good, even when they’re invading other countries and annexing parts of them for land and resources

      • rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        Sometimes campists are even more annoying than right-wingers. They’re this close to getting it right, and yet they somehow completely miss the mark.

    • ComradeKhoumrag@infosec.pubEnglish
      7·
      10 months ago

      I will say it is crazy how fast the parties have rotated policies

      My dad used to listen to rush Limbaugh when I was a kid because for some reason he liked hating it so much. When Obama was president, the narrative was always anti Russia, pro defense like feds/CIA (“hard on crime”)

      Then trump becomes president, and the party slowly shifts to pro Russian, and the liberal lefts that used to hate the feds/CIA are now more on the same page with those agencies

    • FenrirIII@lemmy.worldEnglish
      53·
      10 months ago

      Right-wing useful idots on social media: [Continue to echo Russian propaganda they’ve been saturated with paid for]

      • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        16·
        10 months ago

        At this point, the contrarian nature of being a conservative in North America has reached self-sustaining levels of saturation. If Democrats want it, no matter what it is, Republicans have to be against it.