Jack Albrecht
2 min readJun 19, 2023

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Let me see now....believe Ukrainian leaders who continue to lie to try to draw NATO troops directly into combat with Russia...or Russian leaders who continue to lie to minimize their losses and keep the domestic populace supporting the war... or just read the western press from 1992 until Feb 2022 and Wikileaks and make up my own damn mind?

Or maybe I listen to Boris Johnson, ex-PM of the UK who confirmed that he flew to Kyiv in March of 2022 and nixxed the deal that was agreed in Istanbul.

You clearly can't refute my arguments on the merits, so you call me an appeaser / traitor (I'm American). What a lame-ass, childish and cowardly statement. I garan-fucking-tee that you would not have the balls to say that shit to my face.

But just Just like Lindsey Graham, Victoria Nuland, Thomans Friedman, Bill Kristol and the rest of the US chicken hawks you're all about being belicous behind a keyboard.

I'm not Pro-Russian. I'm pro-Reality. The US should be building roads, dams, bridges, railroads, and schools in the US and not in fucking Ukraine, Iraq, and Afghanistan to name 3 countries from only the last 20 years.

Biden just talked about a new railroad to be built in sub-Saharan Africa. Has he forgotten East Palestine, Ohio? Clearly we need some railroad work at home before we cross the Atlantic and build in Africa.

We could solve homelessness in the US for $20 billion. Instead we've sent $40 billion only in weapons to Ukraine in the last year. How's that shit working out?

We spent $7 trillion all told on our "war on terror" since 9/11. For that money we could have reshored all our industry from China, be making chips in the US instead of Taiwan, making textiles in NC instead of Bangladesh.

You know the water level in lake Mead is so low that quite soon there will be no electricity produced, or water for the west coast? You think another $20 billion for Ukraine is going to get drinking water to the 30+ million Americans on the west coast?

I just saw on the news that the US is touting how we're building a $2 billion solar energy plant in Angola. How about a solar desalination plant in San Diego? Why don't we spend that money at home?

This is actual patriotism. Calling out bad policy in our country to make the US better. Your jingoistic bullshit name-calling is just weak sauce that does nothing except make your boot licking ego feel better for a few seconds.

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Jack Albrecht
Jack Albrecht

Written by Jack Albrecht

US expatriate living in the EU; seeing the world from both sides of the Atlantic.

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