Comment by scrollaway
4 years ago
> Zelensky is already a US puppet
Get this shit out of HN and back to RT, please. The US is not the center of Europe, and Ukraine is its own country.
4 years ago
> Zelensky is already a US puppet
Get this shit out of HN and back to RT, please. The US is not the center of Europe, and Ukraine is its own country.
We don't spend $115 billion on a country's war effort unless we are confident we're in control.
You're spending billions on Ukraine (thank you, btw) because Russia's downfall is a net benefit for the US, and Ukraine is a US ally.
"Ally" and "puppet" are not the same thing.
To be fair, when your survival depends on the military spending of someone else, the lines between "alliance" and "vasalism" starts to blur. It will (understandably) take some balls for Zelensky to ever refuse anything from Biden in the short term ; and in the long term, US will likely not refrain from using the "remember when we saved you from Putin" card (we've heard this in France for, what 50 years ?)
I'm pretty sure Churchill and De Gaulle were called "pupets of the USA" at some point, and they seem to have gone on _fine_.
That being said, it would be foolish from the US to not "destroy the Russian army for less than 5% of its defense budget, without loosing any soldier".
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