North Korea invades Ukraine

[Deadstick]

So how did 20 years of war in the Middle East effect the US economy?

"The Iraq and Afghanistan wars have contributed to significant economic setbacks in the United States, through lost opportunities for investment in public infrastructure and services and higher borrowing rates. Contrary to the widespread belief that war is a particularly effective way to create jobs, U.S. federal spending on the current wars would have led to at least 1.4 million more jobs had the money been invested instead in education, health care or green energy.

Similarly, the hundreds of billions of dollars invested in military assets such as ships and aircraft during the first decade of the wars would have led to larger capital improvements had these dollars instead been invested in core public economic infrastructure, such as roads and water systems.

The wars have also impacted interest rates charged to borrowers by banks and other creditors. This is the result of war spending financed entirely by debt, which has contributed to a higher ratio of national debt to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and subsequent rising long-term interest rates.

Each of these issues can be counted as a significant cost of the post-9/11 wars.

• War spending created fewer jobs than similar spending investment in clean energy, public education and health care.
• Federal investment in military assets during the wars made for a lost opportunity to significantly boost capital improvements in core infrastructure such as roads and public transit.
• War spending financed entirely by debt has contributed to higher interest rates charged to borrowers such as new homeowners."

US Economy | Costs of War

How about the Ukraine War?

Five impacts of Russia's war with Ukraine on the United States include [10].

1.1 Increasing energy and oil prices

1.2 Supply chain problems for farmers and rising food prices

1.3 Travel restrictions and increasing cost of plane tickets

1.4 Stock market fluctuations

1.5 Sharp interest rate hikes by Federal Reserve

The Negative Impact of the Ukraine War on the US Economy

I refer you to Smedley Butler War is a racket, this isn't complicated but many people still don't get it.
“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”
― Smedley D. Butler, War Is a Racket

 

[zaangalewa]

... It’s evident the US started this war ...

Russia under Putin and no one else started or provoked this stupid, senseless and criminal war on Europe in the Ukraine.

 

[zaangalewa]

Kim Jung Un sent those troops to Russia. ...

Better to say he payed for Russian weapons - ¿and for nuclear know how? - with 200,000 of his deeply brainwashed slaves.

 

[JGalt]

I refer you to Smedley Butler War is a racket, this isn't complicated but many people still don't get it.
“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”
― Smedley D. Butler, War Is a Racket

True, but it's not only the US. You can't condemn us without condemning Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran.

 

[gipper]

I refer you to Smedley Butler War is a racket, this isn't complicated but many people still don't get it.
“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”
― Smedley D. Butler, War Is a Racket

Few Americans know of Major General Butler, though he was one of the most decorated soldiers in US history. This is of course by design. His opposition to war and exposing it as the racket it is, had to be hidden.

His book should have been required reading for all American school students.

 

[zaangalewa]

Ive only seen a couple that actually think that. And thats on here, not in the real world.

**** Ukraine. Not our business.

No one gives a ****.

What a muck. After only two "*****" impotent now?

 

[gipper]

True, but it's not only the US. You can't condemn us without condemning Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran.

Please explain why?

 

[Blaster]

Now North Korea is thumbing their nose at the Biden administration.

 

[TNHarley]

What a muck. After only two "*****" impotent now?

**** off, ******.

 

[JGalt]

Please explain why?

You don't think their economies also profit from war?

In the first three months since the start of the invasion of Ukraine, Russia earned $24 billion from selling energy to China and India. About 20 percent of Russia's oil exports went to China, Russia's largest single buyer as of November 2021.

 

[zaangalewa]

**** off, ******.

 

[gipper]

You don't think their economies also profit from war?

In the first three months since the start of the invasion of Ukraine, Russia earned $24 billion from selling energy to China and India. About 20 percent of Russia's oil exports went to China, Russia's largest single buyer as of November 2021.

So Russian exports of energy to China and India is profiting from war. That’s hardly correct.

 

[JGalt]

So Russian exports of energy to China and India is profiting from war. That’s hardly correct.

And now even North Korea is profiting from the Ukraine War by sending troops and materiel resources to aid Russia.

You really don't think they're doing that because they're a bunch of "ok guys and girls", do you?

 

[gipper]

And now even North Korea is profiting from the Ukraine War by sending troops and materiel resources to aid Russia.

You really don't think they're doing that because they're a bunch of "ok guys and girls", do you?

Apparently you didn’t read my post.

 

[Deadstick]

True, but it's not only the US. You can't condemn us without condemning Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran.

Well i can because they have not invaded half the planet to exploit their resouces and loot other Countries for years, i am just listening to the radio they are talking about what some Tory arsehole said about the British Empire, he said the colonized Countries should thank us, so that mentality is still there.

 

[Deadstick]

Russia under Putin and no one else started or provoked this stupid, senseless and criminal war on Europe in the Ukraine.

It's clear you didn't follow what has happened in Ukraine going back almost from the moment they were independent.

 

[Deadstick]

Few Americans know of Major General Butler, though he was one of the most decorated soldiers in US history. This is of course by design. His opposition to war and exposing it as the racket it is, had to be hidden.

His book should have been required reading for all American school students.

If his book had been required reading for all American School students then maybe today there woudn't be so many pig ignorant morons at large today.

 

[zaangalewa]

It's clear you didn't follow what has happened in Ukraine going back almost from the moment they were independent.

In 2008 Putin did not only rob territory of Georgia - he also started to try to provoke since this year a kind of civil war with combatants (Russian soldiers in civil clothing) who infiltrated the Donbass region of the Ukraine - tarned as freedom fighters. Indeed the most victims of their actions had been Ukrainian civilists while the Ukrainians tried to find the criminal Russians who did do so. I assume this had been so called Wagner mercenaries (=Russian Nazis). The Wagner mercenaries had been payed from the Russian taxpayers. After Putin had killed some of their leaders this Nazi mercenaries became a part of the regular Russian Red Army. I guess the German name "Wagner" was chosen on reason of a weird propaganda strategy and I guess Putin always tried to make Germany responsible for his crimes. This seemed to work - otherwise no one had seen any need to destroy the pipelines Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2.

 

[ESay]

And now even North Korea is profiting from the Ukraine War by sending troops and materiel resources to aid Russia.

You really don't think they're doing that because they're a bunch of "ok guys and girls", do you?

The thing is very simple - when your government stop sending money to prop up the Zelensky administration, this war stops almost at once. And no one will be 'profiting' out of that.

 

[westwall]

How many Republicans are going to keep pretending that Russia is the good guys in this war? How much longer can they continue pretending that Ukrainian victory isn't in the United States security interest?

"I can confirm that North Korean troops have been sent to Russia and that North Korean military units have been deployed to the Kursk region," Rutte told reporters, soon after a meeting with a senior official from South Korea's intelligence service.

North Korean troops are now in Kursk to help Russia, NATO confirms

Hey, if you love Ukraine so much...YOU go over there and fight for them.