Thread by @JBelcourt73

Hey, @Pendolino70S I saw your worry, so lets make it the message of the day. So, I woke up to your tag on this tweet about GOP support for Ukraine post mid-terms. I think the fear is mostly over-rated and here is why

https://twitter.com/HoansSolo/status/1548597617109733376

1. Defense spending is almost as widely distributed as atmospheric oxygen molecules. Just about every member of both houses of congress has real bring home the bacon moments from the defense industry. This makes funding politically lucrative and mostly bipartisan.

2. Americans love an underdog and a democratic Ukraine fending off a rabid Russian bear is ticks all the right boxes to stir American passions.

3. long term incumbency means a lot of members of Congress get access to information that is more frank and more honest than what the

media will push out. I think its pretty safe to say that @JohnBoozman @SenTomCotton and @RepFrenchHill are getting briefs sourced from stuff the OSINT community would love to have like the actual NATO intelligence and frank opinions from NATO and Ukrainian commanders.

4. A dialed in public, it doesn't take everyone to be involved, small numbers of activists can shape the discussion and Ukraine has a core of very robust support combined with wider support for under dogs, democracy, and freedom generally. I wish more talking heads were with us

but, we have enough combined with grass roots efforts like my daily threads, @walter_report , #WeAreNAFO etc that Russian trolls and lackeys don't have the unrestricted access to public opinion shaping they want. So as long as Ukraine can make real progress, and given Russia's

inability to not be barbaric things look good for the next round of funding. Thats not to say there are no dangers. Putin has unleashed every asset he has in the West to put a stop to Western support. He is fire-hosing us with dis-information and false claims for no other reason

than to cause confusion and make the public lose interest. The narratives don't have to line up with reality or each other so long as they sow confusion and obfuscate the truth. Which is why my recurring theme of small fish like us staying engaged is so important.

Its why retweets and follows matter so much. Most of my readers share my desires vis a vis Ukraine but not all of them. Some are from other hobbies and have other interests. Ditto you and everyone else. The retweets and follows help keep the pro-Ukraine message alive in those

peoples' timelines so that if they get polled, when they get hit with campaign ads and go vote they have been second hand educated on the fact that Russia is waging a war of genocide in Ukraine and that if the US and her allies do not stand strong, then the pain will never end.

One final bit of "good news", as far as I know donations to charities like @MriyaAid are still robust and show that large numbers of average citizens are still reaching into their wallets despite inflation and Russia's malevolent media actors to donate to Ukraine's freedom.

so long as we don't let up, we can keep the arms and support flowing and Ukraine will be able to win on her terms. #Arkansas #russiaisaterrorisstate #UkraineRussianWar #Genocide #WarCrimes @mfa_russia <-- still losing!