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Feral Finster's avatar

The problem is that the West in general and the United States in particular have already lavished so much material, financial and moral support on the Ukrainian regime that anything less than Total Victory will be a massive blow to Muh American Credibility. For an empire in obvious decline, that could be fatal.

As a result, the West has put itself in a position where it has no choice but to keep on doubling down, and every time the West doubles down, the cost of calling off the war (in terms of the cost to Muh Credibility) goes up.

This abuse of The Sunk Cost Fallacy is entirely intentional.

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JP's avatar

USgov wars are not won on battlefields they are won on balance sheets. Death and destruction are just externalities or at most yet more profit centers.

The USgov foreign policy is based on profit alone the rest is propaganda and mitigation. The erected puppets that dance in front of our eyes are paid for by the sociopathic profit-thirsty bankers and soulless silicon valley ghouls.

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