Comments by "Gardener42" (@GARDENER42) on "How Can We Pressure Speaker Mike Johnson? January Qu0026A" video.

  1. Thanks for doing what you can to help get necessary aid to Ukraine. As a lifelong conservative (UK not US but still the small 'c'), I'm disgusted at the Republican far right's politicising of & opposition to stopping Putin's imperialist aggression. Were he alive today, Ronald Reagan would be disgusted by their actions.
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  2. If Putin respects historical borders, he can start by handing Königsberg back to Germany, or possibly Poland & Lithuania...
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  3. Why aren't European nations approaching the US with open chequebooks & BUYING arms & ammunition needed in Ukraine? Why are we waiting for the US to supply everything at their cost?
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  4.  @sharonlavery7656  Aye but we gave almost all of it away (we could've taken back the American Colonies in 1812 but being generous, didn't bother...)
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  5.  @JesperSandgreen  Nah, we kicked the Danes out & assimilated the Norse to the point they became part of us.🙃
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  6.  @righteousone8454  The era may be modern but Putin's mindset is 100% mediaeval barbarianism.
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  7.  @Epaminondas371  Not really. The UK's £2.5bn is less than 5% of our defence budget & the same applies to aid from France. We, the UK should be contributing double that to at least match Germany's pledge. What's needed most of all right now is 155mm artillery ammunition, especially DPICM, which is effective against both dismounted infantry & vehicles such as BMP, SPG, MLRS. The US government has several million of these, ALL declared surplus to requirements & slated for disposal or remanufacture, at a cost of more than $5,000 per round. The US government sent some to Ukraine, with each one being claimed as $60,000 (the original inventory cost). This is BS, as sending them to Ukraine SAVES the US taxpayer $5,000 for each one sent. Why should we Europeans expect the US to always pay for a big chunk of our defence needs?
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  8.  @jajabez8379  The US could cease pretending the inventory value is actual aid, as an unmodernised Bradley is worth maybe 10% of that. Offer them at that price & European nations will snap them up, upgrade their armour & STILL be able to supply them to Ukraine at less than the US "aid value".
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