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Denmark have literally just agreed to donate all of their weapons to Ukraine. I imagine they intend to resupply primarily through US infrastructure.

Why do you think that the US should sell to allies at a discount rather than sell to Ukraine for a massive uptick? Have you suddenly abandoned that position?

Are you just being argumentative for the sake of it? Are you completely full of shit??

What's your source for saying it's a propaganda talking point?

Here is my source for it all being bilateral aid: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1303432/total-bilateral-aid-to-ukraine/

Do you wish to challenge the definition of "bilateral"?

My goal here isn't to say that Ukraine shouldn't be funded - it absolutely should, and I believe doing so is essential to global security. My goal here is to call out the people who seek to exploit this war as an opportunity to sell more weapons and profit from death.

In that sense, many world leaders are in fact in league with Putin. Putin plays the bad guy, but they all profit, while general people and societies suffer.

But hey, they need to "thin the heard" in order to mitigate the other issues their ramptant exploitation is causing, such that they can continue to profit unabated. So I guess war is inevitable /s.

War is about making money, primarily from selling weapons. There are secondary objectives as well, but the real goal is always money.

Europe can simply buy more arms from the US. This has the advantage of replacing old stock with new.

Bear in mind, these aren't charity donations. Weapons and aid are being provided to Ukraine under bilateral aid agreements - which are inherently two way, and almost always heavily favour the country giving, as the receiving country is desperate. Ukraine won't be expected to pay right away, but they will be expected to pay - and they will be expected to pay over the odds, with interest.

Granted, they probably won't be able to pay in full - but that's a future government's problem. In the meantime, the donating nations can treat the loans as a surefire return and fiddle their books, making their long term economic forecasts seem far better than they really are.

Dickless losers.

Ukraine is purchasing the weapons though, they're being provided under bilateral aid agreements. As is typical with bilateral aid, the terms heavily favour the country giving, because the country receiving is desperate. The US is selling weapons to Ukraine at a premium, albeit in a long term loan, yet you're saying we should sell them at a reduced price.

I don't think you really know what you're talking about.

They're not actually free, they're being provided under bilateral aid agreements. If Ukraine survives the war it's going to be saddled with an enormous amount of debt.

The screw here is that countries giving can use the debt to fiddle their own books, making their economies look better than they really are (because they know Ukraine will never be able to pay it all back).

Lol he didn't have the balls to charge $500. Even MechWarrior Online did that, they sold $500 gold mechs in a free to play game.

Air Canada argued that it can't be held liable for information provided by one its "agents, servants or representatives — including a chatbot."

What a load of bullshit. If you speak to someone working for a company, they are an agent of the company and the company is liable for what they say. That's true of a person or a chat bot - arguably it is more true of a chat bot or web page, as they have ample opportunity to ensure its responses are correct beforehand.

WB riding the coat tails of Marvel yet again.

Not just because they use a Japanese character, but if the whole comment is just foreign characters there's no good reason it couldn't detect that.

Dunno about text crossposts, but normally Lemmy auto-detects link crossposts.

Also if you're trying to link to a community you should use !community@instance. /c/community@instance should also work,but most apps don't recognise that format, in spite of it being official for many months now.

Better headline: UK government have failed to regulate private telecoms industry.