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However I have heard reports that we and the EU are more or less paying for the operations of the entire government, ie payroll for civil servants, and that large sums have been earmarked for pensions for top Ukranian officials.

Yes, we help pay the first responders, hospitals, some of the officials, and the pensioners who can't move. I don't see how that's an "however" though. The EU contributes twice as much as we do. War is already enough chaos.

Once, the Republicans used the excuse of exporting Democracy to invade Iraq in GW2 under the Neocons. Now, no one's a Neocon. "We'll be there for twenty years," some whispered in our ears as we marched off thinking we could reshape the Middle East. We spent trillions.

Now, we're just trying to retain a Democracy, and return a peace, and the old War Hawks are now questioning every line item expenditure. This is cheap and we don't have dead American soldiers, disabled and severely wounded, and PTSD - the silent destroyer. We're not fooled. Tomorrow you'll be rationalizing a turnabout and marching us off to war again.

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