So why are we expected to be the world police
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Oh you’re one of those right wing dumdums who don’t understand why it’s better to fight a war before the frontline reaches your homeland?
Being anti war is right wing now?
So when a country attacks a sovereign country, what is the anti-war persons solution to that?
Then why does the rest of the world about America meddling in the affairs of others?
well you got the names, now how about doing a little background check if there is some russki money lying somewhere in those traitors bank accounts...
I'm doing background research and found a picture of biden laughing with medvedev and berlusconi. I guess it's not just these 112 idiots who have ties with the mafia and russia but all of them are corrupted pigs in for the money and wealth
If Biden is also taking bribe money from Russia, as you suggest, then we should expect him to veto this bill, right?
Neoliberals are conservatives, but they usually are not outright traitors the way Republican conservatives are.
If Biden is also taking bribe money from Russia, as you suggest, then we should expect him to veto this bill, right?
No? While peasants get send to the front to die politicians are collecting wealth and power thanks to this war.
You should expect politicians to do what's in their personal greedy interest, being taking money from someone or stabbing them in the back.
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Never made a post pro authoritarian corrupted governments. You must have open someone else profile
Is this supposed to be some kind of public shaming? It's not as if there weren't any reasons not to issue a blank check to Ukraine.
A comprehensible way to view this war is: One corrupt shit-hole country, formerly part of the Soviet Unions has attacked another corrupt shit-hole country, formerly part of the Soviet Union.
I am German and I am happy with giving the Ukraine plenty of funds and other means in order for enabling them to stop Russia expending in my general direction. I don't really see that much benefit for the US so. But thanks, every US dollar spent is about 1€ less we have to spend. Go for it.
Republicans then: Yay McCarthyism!
Republicans now: Daddy Putin, please step on my face uwu!
Its the same picture. McCarthyism was far more about whipping domestic residents into subservience than opposing some foreign menace. The Republican alignment with Daddy Vlady is now just a litmus test for party line faithfulness. A kind of partisan hazing ritual, where you have to go on cable news and say the thing that will get liberals to boo at you, so you can prove you're not one of them.
Then you can start hitting the harder stuff. You get into the QAnon kool-aid that convinces you there's a vast pedophile conspiracy to enslave white children, and only the most orthodox right-wing evangelicals can protect you from it.
Modern day Birchers have far more beef with China than Russia anyway. For, uh... reasons.
~~The article "forgets" to mention the "foreign aid package" also contains billions to support "totally not a Genocide" commiting regime of Israel.~~
~~I am not sure I would vote for it myself and I definitely support Ukraine.~~
read the fucking article, each portion got a separate vote.
Ahh, I missed that. Sorry. Makes it even more ridiculous the Israel aid passed.
Because they get full intelligence briefing on the entire complex situation rather than.just getting indignant on the internet because of some memes and polemic opinion pieces they saw the headlines of
they get full intelligence briefing on the entire complex situation
The year is 2003 and Nancy Pelosi is whispering to constituents that - yes, all this might look sketchy on its face - but the CIA just gave the intelligence committee a tip about this source named "Curveball" that's going to prove Saddam has WMDs and justify the whole thing.
Which, paradoxically, means they're all going to pass.
The only piece of legislation the House really had beef with was the Ukraine bill. And they solved that by stapling the TikTok ban to it. Now the Dems in the Senate will greenlight all the money for Israel and Taiwan on reflex and choke down Ukraine as a sensible compromise.
And now people are singing Speaker Johnson's praises?
Amazing stuff.
He did the thing that liberals wanted him to do, so he's a hero.
When he does a thing liberals don't like, he'll be the enemy again.
If you don't like how a politician is perceived in western media, just wait a minute. Everyone from Ralph Nader to Strom Thurmond can be villainized or redeemed over a long enough timeline.
I hear Nixon liked dogs.
He definitely liked kickbacks.
Let's go Trump redemption 2024! Woohoo!
This, but unironically what the NYT has been pushing since he eclipsed Biden in the polls.
I agree with these 112 morons. We shouldn't send aid to Ukraine.
And what do you think will happen if Putin wins in Ukraine?
He already is winning. Look at a map of controlled areas by Russia vs ukraine. Watch analysis by Scott Ritter and John mersheimer.
Putin thought he would take Ukraine in a matter of days. It's been years.
The ruble has been hit hard by all the sanctions. The Russian economy has been weakened to divert funds to a war inept Russia can't even finish. Russia's infrastructure and money-producing assets like their oil refineries and rail yards are being attacked by Ukrainians as well as partisans within Russia.
Are Russians killing a lot of Ukrainians? Sure, but they've made a laughable amount of progress in Ukraine over the years. Look at the Black Sea fleet numbers. Ultimately Putin is fucking over Russia for a war he can't finish.
The aid is in the form of outdated, surplus military equipment that was scheduled to be replaced anyways. The alternative is paying a company to dispose of them. So why don't you want to send this aid to Ukraine where it can be used? The only people that should have any problem with this are those who are busy sucking Putin's knob.
A lot of that equipment would've just gone back for rework and upgrades. Just because they're old doesn't mean they don't work. That narrative was intended to force the US to by new more expensive hardware instead of repairing what we already have. Now that the old stuff is shipped out there's a demand for new builds.
We will only give Ukraine just enough to prolong the war as long as possible. This war means trillions of dollars in sales if it goes on long enough. I bet the US can stretch it up to ten years if they play the same right. And all the while, Ukraine will be bombed to shit, waiting for the US mega corporations to make more money on the reconstruction efforts. They just need to make sure Putin stays in power or the whole scheme falls apart.
So your idea is to let Russia steamroll Ukraine in which Ukraine will still be bombed to shit? Yeah you're a fucking bootlicker.
The best idea is to force a peace treaty. Tell Putin he can have the land he's captured if the war ends now. Better to let him take that land than wait until Russian military gets back into Kiev again or other more populous cities in the West. He'll feel like he's won and the killing will end. Otherwise there will be no end. Putin will never give up unless the Russian people put his head on a pike. Even if Ukraine somehow manages to push Russian troops back to their borders, the war doesn't end there and Ukraine isn't going to conquer Russia.
Your solution to a tyrant is to... appease the tyrant? Fuck off.
I hope your country gets invaded and you use this same diplomacy you're using for Ukraine. Spineless bitch.
Well, if my country was being invaded I'd probably just leave. Ukrainians have that ability. It's not like Palestine where they literally can't leave.
Keep sucking Putins dick.
Just keep gobbling up that imperialist propaganda. Thinking for yourself is too hard anyways.
Ironic.
Yer brains are rotten. They spoiled from all the exposure to dumb shit. You got no argument left in you. Stop supporting forever wars.
The only people that should have any problem with this are those who are busy sucking Putin’s knob.
I would like to point out that russia is fine with this war otherwise they wouldn't have started it. Politicians and government use wars as a tool to get more power and enrich themself which is pretty much what is happening right now too