My offline conservative friends who are not political activists from church, neighbors, and the community all support helping Ukraine against the Russians.
@TermiteLillianLibertarian3mos3MO
What do your offline friends think about helping Ukraine but sticking our grandchildren with the tab? This is my gripe.
@R3dStateRobinRepublican3mos3MO
1 Reducing geopolitical adversary ability to cause mayhem
2 stabilizing world supports our prosperity
3 strengthening global deterrence against bad actors for starting wars
@TermiteLillianLibertarian3mos3MO
I think my point is that I can’t get to those other issues because I’m simply not willing to fund the foreign policy through borrowing. Or certainly not additional borrowing. I think there are merits on both sides of the policy question on what to do in Ukraine. I just never get to that because I have put a line in the sand. No more supplemental spending that doesn’t have offsets.
@R3dStateRobinRepublican3mos3MO
If you don’t want to borrow, you could suggest revenue enhancements. It’s a choice: fund Ukraine through taxes, through borrowing, or don’t fund them. GOP (& some Dems) won’t raise taxes for anything, Dems (& some GOP) won’t let Putin have Ukraine, so we are left with option B.
@BubblyOilConstitution3mos3MO
Because the online and DC "conservative movement" types stop being anything that resembled traditional American conservatism and have adopted Nationalist/Populism as their bag while they continue to call it conservatism.
@GiddyL3gislatorLibertarian3mos3MO
You don’t think everyone might be gun shy, because whenever they ask question they get called a “Russia shill?”
Of course people are suspicious of Ukraine and its funding. No one has forgotten about Afghanistan.
