chillwaves

boots on the ground in the US would be met with extremely fierce resistance.

These replies are lazy. HN becoming reddit so you guys can feel smart or something.

Are you just trying to fuck up my youtube account or what?

Make your point without the nonsense.

Since when did HN become a place for comments like this?

I have built my whole identity on not caring what people think of me, and of me not asking for anything from anyone.

It's lonely.

Everyone who buys a ticket believes they have a chance of winning, though in reality they do not.

What I mean is to say, it is a more honest/accurate statement that "you have zero chance of winning when you buy a lottery ticket" is more true than claiming they have a chance, (even if it is literally true) due to how our mind biases work.

What's the relevance here? Or are you just being rude?

Participation trophies are not addressed in your link.

> I assume them doing this now is Russia paving the way for a more traditional operation to begin when the ground freezes.

With what army? Most estimates state they have lost well over half of their combat power. Russia is not doing anything but slowly (or sometimes quickly) retreating.

No one is arguing "should".

> And would rather we dedicate our resources to bettering our own clearly failing country.

The vast majority of our support is in the form of weapons, and the vast majority of those weapons come from existing inventory.

Even the new spending is just money cycling back to US weapons manufacturers.

What good would weapons do to solve our domestic issues?

This isn't how we talk on HN.

Because the poor have no resources to tax -- it makes no sense to tax them.

And it doesn't mean the rich will be paying a fair share, just that they will be paying more than the poor.

How does the US benefit?

Russia had already shut down the pipeline and proven to be unreliable partner, and facing heavy sanctions.

It's not like the US needed the pipeline destroyed in order to be in the position to supply LNG to Europe.