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People fighting despots for their people's freedom should be welcomed and supported, not made to beg.

If this was actually believed, he would not have to leave his continent for support.

I don't know what that is supposed to mean, as far as I know he hasn't been asked to beg or been berated like this by any other nation but the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_fallacy

Your suggestion is that European leaders don’t believe him, which would be counter to every public statement they’ve made.

He’s getting support from European nations. The US is capable of more support, hence asking for it. This isn’t complicated, I have to suspect you know all of this and are being disingenuous anyway, and I cannot fathom why.

You don't understand how the world works.

"European countries have provided €132 billion in aid (military, financial and humanitarian) as of December 2024, and the United States has provided €114 billion."

"List of military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_aid_to_Ukrain...

And most of that money is flowing back. If the US government buys American weapons and ships them to Ukraine, then the money circulates in the US and leads arms manufacturers to employ people.

With Russia at war with Ukraine, Europeans have turned to US fossil imports and funneling money back to the US.

The arms in Ukraine then hurt the Russian military and degrade it. So it is effectively spend to further American goals even then.

The mental gymnastics performed to make it seem like a loss of US taxpayer money is really insane.

This is a very shallow take

This is really sad

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