Since the media is clearly carrying water for the weapons manufacturers by bringing them on without disclosure of the huge and obvious conflict of interest, I doubt the accuracy of the merits of this conflict that were also presented by them.
> An extensive lead service pipe replacement effort has been underway since 2016. In early 2017, some officials asserted that the water quality had returned to acceptable levels, but in January 2019, residents and officials expressed doubt about the cleanliness of the water. There were an estimated 2,500 lead service pipes still in place as of April 2019. As of December 8, 2020, fewer than 500 service lines still needed to be inspected. As of July 16, 2021, 27,133 water service lines had been excavated and inspected, resulting in the replacement of 10,059 lead pipes. After $400 million in state and federal spending, Flint has secured a clean water source, distributed filters to all who want them, and laid modern, safe, copper pipes to nearly every home in the city. Politico declared that its water is "just as good as any city's in Michigan."
"We fixed it" presumably is part of why Flint is a lower priority than combating Russian wars of expansionary aggression.
(The Ukraine war is, incidentally, a fascinatingly cheap way of kneecapping Russia. It's beyond the wildest wet dreams of the Cold Warriors in cost effectiveness.)
Teachers make plenty, the IRS is well funded, everything is great?
Put another way: When the war is over we can expect tax cuts as we don't have any domestic priorities to spend it on right?
I think the wealthiest country the world can manage to fund both.
That something is not done doesn't automatically prove it's due to e.g. Middle East, or giving really old stock to Ukraine. The US is more than capable of doing multiple things at the same time. Though, yeah, the infrastructure in the US is terrible and so on. It still doesn't prove that it's due to focussing on the military. E.g. the costs for medical care is way higher than any other country. It could've been done differently, but well, that's still not due to waging a war in the Middle East.
You vote for democrats to increase funding to social programs, they promise they will tax the rich to pay for them. The democrats never vote to raise the capital gains tax instead if they do anything they raise income taxes or introduce a "fine" to poor people who cant afford health insurance. They then fund ineffective programs that are later revealed to have a great deal of fraud and waste. They say they will fight healthcare costs but can't even get a bill to reimport drugs onto the floor. They'll do a Medicare for all vote but only when they are not in power so it won't go through.
Maybe you get disillusioned with that and decide to vote Republican. They say they cut taxes and they do nominally, but not without craving out even larger tax cuts for wealthy individuals. They fail to cut spending. Look at the most recent debt celing crisis, they immediately caved. Look at when they had a majority, no major spending cuts.
What do they have in common? War. They love wars. They get rich off wars. Let's not let them have any wars until they do what we want them to do at home. War is dessert, make them eat their dinner first.
It's as black and white as wars get.
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/ukraines-bloody-civil-w...
https://time.com/3893066/chechens-ukraine-war/
https://www.fpri.org/article/2019/10/five-years-of-war-in-th...
The war in the Donbas was portrayed as a civil war by Russia but was actually started by and fought largely by Russian soldiers and FSB/GRU members.
The former head of the DPR himself admitted this recently.
Your timeline is incorrect. As someone who has spent a good amount of time in Ukraine, it is clear you are not correctly informed.
The Maidan revolution, or Coup d'etat (which the US supported) in Feb of 2014 ended the presidency of Victor Yanokvych that had previously been considered more Pro-kremlin than his opponent.
When the revolution happened, Victoria Nuland (US State Department) was captured with US State Dept staff playing kingmakers around which politicos would become the new president. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957
In March of 2014 Ethnic Russians started capturing govt locations in Ethnic Russian territories like Luhansk and Donetsk https://web.archive.org/web/20140412131249/http://www.kyivpo...
Various ethnic Russians were killed immediately after this revolution in 2014 in places like Odessa that protested this https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/02/ukraine-dead-o...
The Ukrainian civil war between the Eastern Ukrainians supported by Russia, and the Western Ukrainians supported by the West/NATO, eventually became the Russian invasion of Ukraine around Feb 2022 after talks broke down about Ukraine's membership in NATO which Russia opposed.
Was this as a FSB or GRU officer?.
> In March of 2014 Ethnic Russians started capturing govt locations in Ethnic Russian territories like Luhansk and Donetsk https://web.archive.org/web/20140412131249/http://www.kyivpo...
Yea they were ethnic Russians because they were just Russians from Russia.
> The Ukrainian civil war between the Eastern Ukrainians supported by Russia, and the Western Ukrainians supported by the West/NATO, eventually became the Russian invasion of Ukraine around Feb 2022 after talks broke down about Ukraine's membership in NATO which Russia opposed.
If the Russians only supported and didn’t fight themselves why were Russian FSB and GRU officers setup as heads of the new areas?. Why didn’t Ukrainians from those areas get appointed instead?.
Here’s a paper on just how involved the Russians were in Donbas, hint they didn’t support it they were directly involved.
https://press.armywarcollege.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article...
Here’s a wiki article on the little green men (in others just Russian soldiers outside uniform).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_green_men_(Russo-Ukra...
Do you dispute these? If not, why is it a stretch that the Russian Federation is committing genocide in Ukraine?