White House downplays CNN poll showing majority of Americans oppose more US aid for Ukraine | CNN Politics
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The White House on Wednesday downplayed CNN polling showing most Americans oppose Congress providing additional funding to support Ukraine in its war with Russia ahead of a reported administration request for more aid.

Mitch McConell says the quiet part out loud.

Exact full quote from CNN:

“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

  • boredtortoise@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I find in all Russia’s statements kind of ridiculous that it would have a say in how other sovereign countries handle their safety. Ukraine and Georgia have their own decisions to make

    • barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It’s not pretty but this is how the world works. If a man is holding a gun to your head, and says he’ll kill you if you don’t give him your wallet, do you hold onto the wallet out of principle because robbery is immoral?

      • sol@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        The man with the gun to his head doesn’t have much of a choice if he wants to live. You, though, have a choice between criticising and defending the man with the gun, and you’re choosing to defend him.

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Bruv you’re not this dense. NATO, an alliance constructed for the express purpose of destroying Russia, which did not disband when the USSR was destroyed, which continued to advance towards and encircle Russia for decades after the fall of the USSR, which refused the RF’s attempts to join the alliance, which has engaged in numerous illegal wars of aggression, is the man holding the gun and I swear to god just because you were born there that does not make them the good guys.

      • Gsus4@feddit.nl
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        1 year ago

        lol, thug ethics. AKA offensive realist geopolitics. The great do what they want and the small accept their fate.

        • Maoo [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
          04·
          1 year ago

          There is no ethics between capitalist states, there are only stratagems for how to exploit everyone else and not get exploited yourself.

          Rhetoric about liberal world orders and rules and ethics are just propaganda to keep their own people complacent, like providing indulgences to themselves. They are wildly inconsistent and the self-named “good guys” carry out the absolute worst violence.

    • silent_water [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      1 year ago

      you do know there’s been an ongoing civil war in Ukraine since 2013 and that fascists have been genociding Russian speakers in the independent republics that have been trying to split off from Ukraine in that time, right? and you know that Ukraine violated multiple peace treaties in the process of doing so?

      • boredtortoise@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        And we know that the separatist fascists are Russian plants. The future will tell us how much there’s a real independence movement instead in the areas.

        Nevertheless, conquering and genociding whole Ukraine is not approvable

        • Maoo [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Those lifelong Ukrainian trade unionists locked in their union hall and set on fire? Yeah, just fascust Russian plants.

          How did I arrive at such a smart and correct thought? I get that question a lot. Listen, tankie

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      1 year ago

      You know sovereignty isn’t real, right? Like it’s just not? Countries invade whoever they want whenever they think they can get away with it? Most of Europe just went in to Iraq illegally and murdered a million people? Ukraine sent a lot of troops on that adventure. The US just kills people and topples governments all over? France controls colonial possessions in Africa? Canada de-facto runs a bunch of African territory through it’s ruthless resource extraction firms? South Korea and Okinawa are under US military occupation? North Korea only remains Sovereign because they can make Seoul glow in the dark if the US tries something? The west uses ruthless monetary manipulation, dumping of consumer goods and food, outright piracy and theft, to control other countries?

      This isn’t model UN.