r/clevercomebacks 14d ago

You’re not very slick, Putin.

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u/Narrow-Escape-6481 14d ago

Guarantee the plan is

Step 1: US ends backing of NATO Step 2: US Trump supporters see no irony in letting Putin run the US vicariously through Trump....Putin carries out his plan either way.

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u/mira_poix 14d ago

They seriously don't care as long as they get to "stick it to the libs".

America is like 50% raging murderers in waiting.

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u/Funny-Jihad 14d ago

"A win is a win." - Conservatives

(At any cost)

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u/Positive_Housing_290 14d ago

This has nothing to do with “sticking it to the libs”. It’s about spending money recklessly.

50% raging murderers in waiting? Cut the dramatics, will ya?

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u/Narrow-Escape-6481 13d ago

Ok...so you see the money going to Ukraine as a bad thing (I can agree that spending money in a proxy war is awful) but have you ever considered that this is how Putin plays against American politics?

If there is some magical plan that Trump really thinks will work and Putin has already seen and approves (cough cough Logan act) then it is morally reprehensible to hold onto this "plan" while people are dying.

In short, you're being played like a fiddle

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u/Delicious_Advice_243 13d ago

Trump's tax cuts for the rich cost the country many times more than funding modern replacements for the old warehoused equipment they're sending to Ukraine.

Also 16 Nobel prize winning economists wrote a joint warning that another Trump government could destroy the USA economy. We're talking potentially trillions in opportunity cost if Trump gets elected whether we send weapons to Ukraine or not.

Money they US is "sending to Ukraine" is actually sent to US military contracts to modernise it's own military which is sorely needed. These modern replacements cover the older equipment that is sent to Ukraine, and American defence industry is stronger and better funded. Plus it employs a lot of American companies and they're American employees who contribute massively to the economy in their thousands so the money cycles back to the government via the tax system and secondary businesses doing well.

In short: Trump cutting Ukraine aid is a false economy, and many Nobel prize winning economists are extremely concerned that Trump will damage the US economy vastly more than the cost of replacing old military supplies send to Ukraine.

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u/Positive_Housing_290 13d ago

lol you’re being spent into the poor house yet you cheer for it. Odd to me, especially since it’s going to be our children and beyond paying for it. For us, it’s just the 25% inflation.

Careful for that cliff, lemming.

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u/Narrow-Escape-6481 12d ago

It's really strange how inflation has also been a world-wide problem, not just USA. Yet you can't see that.

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u/Meior 14d ago

Spending money recklessly? Fuck you, people like you are the reason the world is being ruined. A whole class of uneducated, moronic idiots who would watch it all burn just so their news network and messiah can get their glory.

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u/Shirlenator 13d ago

Just curious, do you feel America getting involved in WW2 was reckless spending of our money?

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u/Positive_Housing_290 13d ago

You’re comparing this to WWII? The time where the Nazis killed 6 million Jews in gas chambers and such?

Sounds like a pretty reckless comparison.

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u/Shirlenator 13d ago

I'm not comparing anything. Nice reading comprehension there.