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
I don’t have the time for the classic tankie “reply with a wall of text and deflections”, I actually have a real job to attend to. But some main points.
Do you also know that Russia took Sevastopol from Ukraine back in 2014?
Tell me, do you also support Israel’s claims on Palestinian territory?
Yes.
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?
I know you should get a gold medal on mental gymnastics and double standards.
What you call “reply with a wall of text and deflections” is 90% of the time well informed and sourced discourse, you just dismiss it cause you can’t argue with it.
It’s crazy how quick they turn into Westworld robots, you can show them the most airtight, well-sourced case to counter their empty vibes-based conjecture and they’ll just go “That doesn’t look like anything.”
jokey one-liners: you have no arguments
well-reasoned point: I’m not reading all that, I have a job
nonfalsofiable orthodoxy intensifies
This is literally a deflection to avoid dealing with the (inconvenient) basic facts you should’ve learned before having any opinion on this topic in the first place.
Yes? Because the Black Sea Fleet is station in Sevastopol and Sevastopol is a vital strategic resource? Are we speaking the same language?
Non-sequitor?
… 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?
Could I get a sticker instead?
Also that’s not a wall of text you dork it’s like 10 sentences.
So if the US has a fleet statinoned in another contry’s territory, should they just be allowed to take it?
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?
A Russian-backed separatist group starts a conflict and Ukraine responds.
Does Ukraine not have the right to defend their territory?
You can get some crayons to munch on.
Do eastern ukrainians have a right not to be ethnically cleansed?
Do eastern Ukrainians have a right to defend their own territory and invite guests to help?
You’re a very foolish person.
Did the American-backed separatist group count in your brain too or the us backed razing of the USSR
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
I’ll make it easier for you
Can’t be that important if you’ve got all this time lose arguments on the internet
And here I thought that the classic tankie reply was low-effort trolling and shitposting.
To the degree the Palestinians have used their self determination to say they want to be Israel and not Palestine
You’re really bad at analogies. You shouldn’t lean on them to avoid direct investigation.
You know you’re dealing with a pro-NATO bot when they say stupid boomer jokes like “well I have a job to go to”
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This whole “unlike you tAnKiEs I have a job” thing just makes you look insecure and childish.
You know that, right?
It really is the strangest appeal to authority I’ve ever seen.
My ex father in law would always harp that he was more intelligent than my mom (he wasn’t) cus he had more jobs than her