Quote Originally Posted by A Quiet Monkfish View Post
Along with most in the 'west' we've viewed nearly a year of non-stop media reports painting Ukraine, it's war, it's people, and it's leaders in a favourable light. Everything Ukraine does is brave, heroic, everything Russia does is the opposite. Maybe it's not all true. Everyone supported our wars in Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, Syria - now we're learning we were fed just what government wanted us to know. There's no way the public of UK, Germany, USA etc. would tolerate governments spending Łbillions of taxpayers money on a war that can't be won. Not only that, should our planes and tanks kill 18yr old Russian conscripts any more that Russia kill Ukrainians ? It also doesn't help the cause of peace when Biden's wealth has come through his crackhead son via ....
I can't say I understand the sentence I highlighted. The public in those countries seemingly do indeed support taxpayers' money being spent on a war that can't be 'won'. (When the conflict eventually comes to a conclusion, it is almost certain that Russia will still be occupying some of Ukraine and the war will not have been 'won', as you put it.)