Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting

Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by philjohn on Friday February 28, 2025 @07:52PM (#43214210)

The US hasn't put as much in compared to Europe as they'd have you believe. Whilst Europe has sent fewer weapons, they've been supporting monetarily. And the US was sending stockpiled weapons, marking them at book value, and then reinvesting that money into US defence firms to buy new weapons.

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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by an_guy on Saturday March 01, 2025 @01:27AM (#43216530)

War is fought with weapons. If EU cannot provide weapons, Ukraine won't be able to fight the war.

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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by johnnyanmac on Saturday March 01, 2025 @08:24AM (#43218995)

And how does one obtain weapons if a country doesn't just have thousands of tanks they were going to scrap anyway?

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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by an_guy on Saturday March 01, 2025 @09:53AM (#43219756)

Exactly why monetary donation from EU is useless in battle field. Ukr could buy weapons with that money, sure but what if no one is selling?

Without US, EU cannot fulfill Ukrainian needs with their current arsenal.

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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by ziotom78 on Saturday March 01, 2025 @01:35AM (#43216566)

And let's remember that most of the Ukrainian refugees have been hosted in Europe [1], something for which I am proud of being European. This has a monetary cost that Trump's administration seems to ignore when they keep saying that the US have spent far more than Europe to help Ukraine.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1312602/ukrainian-refuge...

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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by misja111 on Saturday March 01, 2025 @05:29AM (#43217937)

Also Europe took millions of Ukrainian refugees, and it took the hardest blows from the sanctions against Russia.

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