“People think, increasingly it appears, that we shouldn’t be doing this. Well, let me start by saying we haven’t lost a single American in this war,” McConnell said. “Most of the money that we spend related to Ukraine is actually spent in the US, replenishing weapons, more modern weapons. So it’s actually employing people here and improving our own military for what may lie ahead.”

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/4085063

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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Do you also know that Russia took Sevastopol from Ukraine back in 2014?

Yes? Because the Black Sea Fleet is station in Sevastopol and Sevastopol is a vital strategic resource? Are we speaking the same language?

Tell me, do you also support Israel's claims on Palestinian territory?

Non-sequitor?

Do you know what the causis belli for the US's invasion of Iraq was? Are you stupid enough to believe that one as well? Or does believing causus belli only applies to whatever country is not an ally of the US?

... Okay so you know that UA was shelling Donbass and killing people for years, and the Rada was very openly hostile to the Russian speaking Ukrainian minority, right?

I know you should get a gold medal on mental gymnastics and double standards.

Could I get a sticker instead?

Also that's not a wall of text you dork it's like 10 sentences.

[–] mim@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Because the Black Sea Fleet is station in Sevastopol and Sevastopol is a vital strategic resource? Are we speaking the same language?

So if the US has a fleet statinoned in another contry's territory, should they just be allowed to take it?

Non-sequitor?

What don't you follow?

Do you also support US-backed countries to take territory as they see fit? Or does that only apply to countries you like?

Okay so you know that UA was shelling Donbass and killing people for years, and the Rada was very openly hostile to the Russian speaking Ukrainian minority, right?

A Russian-backed separatist group starts a conflict and Ukraine responds.

Does Ukraine not have the right to defend their territory?

Could I get a sticker instead?

You can get some crayons to munch on.

[–] Redcat@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Does Ukraine not have the right to defend their territory?

Do eastern ukrainians have a right not to be ethnically cleansed?

[–] Commiejones@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Do eastern Ukrainians have a right to defend their own territory and invite guests to help?

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

You're a very foolish person.

[–] Bulma@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

Did the American-backed separatist group count in your brain too or the us backed razing of the USSR

[–] Zoboomafoo@yiffit.net 1 points 1 year ago

Shit, if all you have to do is park a fleet at a region and it's yours, I have been playing paradox games wrong this entire time