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nekandro@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

Zelenskyy straight-up said Ukraine is going to lose if Congress doesn't send more aid

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Zelenskyy straight-up said Ukraine is going to lose if Congress doesn't send more aid

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nekandro@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago
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In his starkest warning yet, President Zelenskyy said that "Ukraine will lose the war" to Russia if Congress does not act to send it more aid.
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  • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    NATO is seeking to take control of decision-making powers on future aid packages — normally led by the US — in an effort to limit the impact of a potential second Donald Trump presidency on the ongoing conflict.

    This is wild. It’s bad enough that the US president has the power to start wars wherever he wants with no congressional approval. But now they’re trying to make it so that the only people with the authority to withdraw from a conflict are unelected NATO officials accountable to no one.

    Dronies will support this, because they love endless war across the globe and want to remove any potential for popular support to achieve peace.

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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    I was wondering how the media was going to explain the collapse in Ukraine when it finally becomes impossible to hide it, and now we know. The whole thing is going to be blamed on republicans holding up money in congress, as if pouring another 61 billion after all the untold billions that were already poured into this was going to make any difference. The fact that people genuinely believe this is frankly depressing. It shows just how utterly credulous and mentally deficient western public is.

  • Hestia [she/her, fae/faer]@hexbear.net
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    Eat shit

  • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    packwatch

  • istanbullu@lemmy.ml
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    It is a bad idea to trust and rely on Ameeica. Some Afgans learned this lesson in 2021, the same is happening to Ukraine now.

    • Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml
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      Many such cases!

      • Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Gaddafi’s is just sad. Such a terrible decision to give up their nuclear deterrence and trust western governments.

        Nukes are why the DPRK hasn’t been invaded again, and why it hasn’t ended up Libya is now.

    • Croquette@sh.itjust.works
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      Ukraine rely on a lot more than just the USA. But what else can they do? It’s either that or they get annexed.

      Their are a small country versus a world power.

      • Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        The region doesn’t rely on the US, the post-2014 fascist government that doesn’t care about the wishes of eastern Ukrainians does.

        There wasn’t a problem here until the US-backed coup in 2014 and subsequent killing of eastern Ukrainians and Crimeans (if you’re wondering why Crimeans overwhelmingly support Russia) by the coup gov for resisting, which also doesn’t respect the Minsk agreements to stay neutral.

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          fascist

          You mean Putin?

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    “It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.”

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    Lose away bozo, you got played

    • BlueMagaChud [any]@hexbear.net
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      will the neonazis kill him right away or wait til he has been living in Miami for awhile?

      • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
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        My money’s on ‘on the airstrip trying to flee’.

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    The free world loses when Russia wins.

    It’s pretty much an invitation to China to do the same in Taiwan and an invitation for Russia to start more wars in eastern Europe…

    Helping Ukraine costs money. Not helping Ukraine costs even more.

    • я не из калининграда@lemmy.ml
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      wait, you are not being ironical?

      how the fuck do you manage to claim that the west is the free world™ while it is the empire to blame for the largest amount of worldwide suffering in the second half of the twentieth century? It is responsible for countless invasions, sanction regimes and assassinations with the goal of subjugating foreign nations, as well as courting nazis post ww2, like for example people like klaus barbie or wernher von braun, as well as the entire early government of the frg.

      your fantasizing about a supposed military threat from the prc to taiwan and from russia to the rest of europe is nothing but pure projection, since you westoids apparently cant imagine someone acting from a different motivation than your own. the prc has time and time again stated that it prefers a peaceful resolution to the taiwan conflict and the province has never officially declared any grade of independence from the mainland, simply being under a different government, the roc.

      russia on the other hand has absolutely no reason to start any military conflicts in western europe, something you would know, if you would even try to understand the lead up to the current situation.

      your last sentence honestly just sounds like a thinly veiled blood for the blood god.

      • justgohomealready@sh.itjust.works
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        Fuck off with your Putin propaganda.

        • Aria@lemmygrad.ml
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          imnotfromkaliningrad’s comment includes reasoning and it’s obviously their opinion. Meanwhile yours is the propaganda verbatim with no analysis and no reasoning.

        • я не из калининграда@lemmy.ml
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          sadly, even if you follow russian propaganda to the word, which i dont btw, you would still more often than than not end up with the truth. maybe the west should try to be less evil.

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            Found this video about how Americans live. North Korean propaganda says we eat birds. All countries distort the truth, even ‘Merica. I wish more people understood this.

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              the video was actually not made by north korea. it is a parody created by a british comedy director. dprk media typically depicts the us in a fairly accurate manner, or at least more truthfully than how american media portrays korea.

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                I’m so gullible. I wanted to make coffee out of snow after this video. I thought this was real too, until my wife told me it had to be fake. I wanted it to be real.

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                  i feel ya, western propaganda against korea is sadly hard to undo, considering the sheer amount of it. a great way to do it through is to read korean history, with a wonderful beginners read on the topic being this book. after a while you realize that many of the claims against the dprk are often nothing but simple projection, like for example haircut policing being an actual thing in 1980s south korea.

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      The free world loses when Russia wins.

      I’d pay good money to watch the Anglos crash and burn tbh. Like, PPV amounts of money. At this point it might be the only way to avert climate collapse; if possible at all, and I have no material reason to want to see you propagate or prosper. Die faster; and do a backflip on your way down.

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        K

    • istanbullu@lemmy.ml
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      Does the free world also include places America has invaded or bombed?

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        Japan, SK, and Germany seem on board with aid to Ukraine… So yes

        • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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          Three formerly fascist states join Ukraine thonk

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            “formerly” fuckin lmao

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            The fuck is your point?

            • TooManyFoods@lemmy.world
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              He would rather a current fascist state join them

              • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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                Liberals understanding fascism challenge (impossible) https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Fascism

                Meanwhile, in Ukraine…

                • BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
                • Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
                • Truthout, 2015: The Ukraine Mess That Nuland Made
                • The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
                • The Guardian, 2017: ‘I want to bring up a warrior’: Ukraine’s far-right children’s camp – video
                • WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know
                • Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
                • The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
                • The Conversation, 2022: Ukraine war follows decades of warnings that NATO expansion into Eastern Europe could provoke Russia

                .
                Fascism didn’t suddenly appear in 2014, either, it’s been there this whole time.

                • The History of Fascism in Ukraine Part I: The Origins of the OUN 1917-1941
                • History of Fascism in Ukraine Part II: The OUN during World War 2, 1941-1945
                • History of Fascism in Ukraine Part III: 1944-1963 UPA War, Ratlines, and the Assassination of Stepan Bandera
                • History of Fascism in Ukraine Part IV: The Global OUN Network in Exile, 1962-1992
                • The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It
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    People in this thread clearly don’t understand what the implications are. There is a very clear danger of war on the European continent that will involve NATO and by proxy the US. Aid for Ukraine is the absolute cheapest option. Europe is not going to just let Ukraine fall and will ramp up their involvement. We already have France willing to send troops.

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      Ok genocidaire

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      You don’t understand that the only danger of further war is again from US/NATO. Europe is going to let Ukraine fall because it has no choice. France is a laughing stock. Even what they threatened to send could do nothing.

      In the case of shells, the problem isn’t money, it’s lack of production capacity. Even the mighty USA, owner of the largest military-industrial complex in the world, can only produce 28,000 rounds of 155mm per month – less than 10pc of what Ukraine needs – and this with its factories on 24-hour operation.

      Comment from the Torygrapgh readership:

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        @LarkinDePark @Alsjemenou because appeasement totally works with dictators and lebensraum

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          I honestly don’t think Zelensky is a Nazi. He may be an open Nazi collaborator but I think he sees that as a necessity. Dictator yes, but lebensraum? You mean with the breakaways?

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            “By proxy” doesn’t change the nature of what he is. Collaboration is complicity. If there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis.

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    • index@sh.itjust.works
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      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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        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.

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          The answer is the west won. Presumably a good answer

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            Anglo dominance over the world is why the world is ending. Y’all are fucking shit stewards of a planet.

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        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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          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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            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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                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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