The world without America being able to fund forever wars... imagine the horror!

Almost as if the interests of the American people would be better served if America didn't feel compelled to interject itself in every conflict in the world.

Again threatening us with a good time, but unfortunately this is probably worth as much as the pile of manure western think tanks were feeding the world in Ukraine topic before.

So i read it and yup, the exact same manure and it's still sprinkled with copium

It would give China the green light to flex its power over a weakened US and cost US taxpayers an "astronomical" sum to pay for beefed-up defense spending.

"Such an outcome would bring a battered but triumphant Russian army right up to NATO's border from the Black Sea to the Arctic Ocean,"

That would mean that the US would be forced to deploy a "sizable portion" of its ground forces to Eastern Europe

Literally every paragraph is crybullying and saberratling. They really get paid heavy money for that regurgitated nonsense?

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This article feels extremely dogmatic to me. I fail to see how a renewed investment in the war effort in Ukraine doesn't pose the same problem, stretching defence resources thin, that this think tank is fear mongering over. Hell, sending more weapons to Ukraine would likely be worse since many of them will likely go "missing" anyway and Ukraine doesn't have enough men to arm with them.

Don't they understand that the US already gave China everything that it needs to thrive? All of their current political objectives can be accomplished without invading a dying empire. They don't need to be the perfect trading partner, just better than the US/EU. They have developed their productive forces to be a high quality goods manufacturer.

So in essence, this "Institute for the Study of War" is cudgeling the Democrats to give the Republicans exactly what they want, and totally shut down the southern border so that materiel can resume and continue flowing into ukronazi hands; otherwise "muh China". Am I missing anything here? Seriously, I feel like I'm watching the mask slip off the uniparty's face as the two hands bicker amongst each other.

"If we stop funding Ukraine, Putin will take over the whole country!"

Yeah, that's why the Russians are digging in and consolidating their gains instead of pushing forward. I guess they're planning on walking through those fields they just mined to hell and back... also "muh Taiwan!"

Reading articles from the western liberal press is like stepping into an alternate dimension.

"China could invade another country"

Either they're clueless about the fact that a PRC ROC war would be a civil war according to international law, or they're trying to act like China is going to invade... idk, India? Vietnam? Singapore? Makes zero sense

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This is a real nothingburger article. It's literally just "The US was hoping it would win this war it started, because losing will cost them more."

And of course they throw in China there, which gets barely a mention in the article (they even accidentally admit that the only reason Taiwan hasn't reunified is because of US meddling.) It's just bog standard "think tank" stuff of "You'd better give the MIC more money, we're experts, so give them more money, they need more money. More."

EDIT: I guess it does detail the US's overall plans once they lose. They will probably make Europe pay huge amounts for "advanced" and very expensive weapons, seems like they'll be pushing all the losses onto Europe. Sounds like Europe's going to have to make some "austerity measures" of their own so the ghouls in Washington can continue to exploit someone.

What do they mean "if"?

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Lib wandered in again I see