• index@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Aid for Ukraine is the absolute cheapest option

    One who consider a proxy war where thousand people die and a country get destroyed the “cheapest option” tells you how much they are in bad faith. For politicians your life is indeed cheap and something they can trash away for profits

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      1 year ago

      So no aid to Ukraine and show Russia that it can indeed start wars where thousands die and destroy countries, without negative consequences?

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        1 year ago

        Where are the negative consequences for America? Why can America invade any country it wants and kill hundreds of thousands of innocent women and children but for some reason when Russia does it we have to show them they aren’t allowed?

        Only America and its allies can start wars and commit genocides?

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          1 year ago

          Classic whataboutism.

          Because the US does interventionism, fund far-right politicians, etc., Russia (and China) can do as such, and even more. At least the US doesn’t want to “regain it’s old lost territories”.

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              1 year ago

              In fairness it’s a solid criticism considering there’s two kinds of comparisons that aren’t made on equal footing. To argue U.S.'s kind of intervention is the same as the Russias, would be more appropriate to consider Russia’s pre 2014 involvement in Ukraine. If you want to compare full-scale military operations then ZILtoid makes a good point. We haven’t tried to annex another country in a long time.

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      1 year ago

      This is a delicate situation. If a NATO country is sending troops to Ukraine, it will escalate the war into a full blown world war.

      We know what happened in both world wars, so there is no good answers here.