i want the Ukrainians armed and fed and warm, let’s get to work
I think we’re starting to get into a “pick two” type situation.
You should want that for your own country. Can you even name a place in Ukraine, without looking it up? Without mentioning a name already spoken of in the news?
You are welcome to your own point of view, but … It’s baffling.
You can be against an immediate global threat without being against better conditions for your country. One does not exclude the other. Nuance and priority.
No no you see that’s the “fuck you got mine” mentality…or whataboutism to have an excuse to let Russia take over Ukraine
This is the “it’s not guns…it’s metal health” argument
When the “mental health” part actually comes up for discussion, it’s “radical, socialist, extremist, leftist, unamerican” take your alt reich buzzword pick
The GOP has already decided they will not be giving Ukraine aid and the whole “border reform” is bullshit and a strawman. When the aid “fails” all the pundits will say “the left didn’t want to negotiate on the border enough” it’s their fault Ukrainians will die, when they damn well know their mind was made up potentially months ago. Putin has them all their pockets likely with dirt ready for airing should they not fall in line
You don’t have to be Ukrainian or even be in Europe to be affected by what is happening.
before the war Ukraine made up 9% of global wheat exports, 15% of maize and 44% of sunflower oil.
The Russian invasion is also affecting food prices globally. So those that don’t care about the Ukrainians (which they should but hey let’s explore the heartless approach to this) but do care about inflation should also want to support Ukraine in getting a speedy end to this war. This is to ensure that Russia does not create any further large scale disruptions:
in the first couple of months after Russia invaded, “food prices were quite high and quite volatile. Wheat futures jumped almost 60%. Corn and soybeans were up 15 to 20% in the first week or so.”
while food prices reverted to pre-invasion levels for much of the past year, those levels are still a record high compared to the last decade.
In other words, the world remains in a somewhat precarious situation where, if just one thing goes wrong — a worsening twist to the war in Ukraine, a bad harvest in some important supplying nation – global food prices could spike.
Your facts don’t work. They’re being told Biden is at fault for price increases
Don’t feed the trolls.
But human decency is zero sum!
It’s adorable when the right pretends to care about the poor and homeless in America.
Couldn’t have put my comment in a better physical form
only a Russian would ask a question that stupid and cowardly
Comment history is TEXTBOOK Russian agitator content
pretend to care about fairness for us, it’s a constant amusement for everyone… the cries of your countrymen dying in ditches in Ukraine don’t reach you, but a few words from an honest voice on the internet are too much to bear…
Literally every other comment from this guy is in the deep negatives. If I were an instance owner I’d instaban people this who have nothing good to contribute.
That would be an easy thing to game and would only encourage upvote farming to keep up while having bot farms mass downvote to silence users.
i just comment on what i see, and you validate what i say… it’s a simple process… you have obviously learned how to deal with criticism from your coward Putin…
Or a Republican. This one has shown his true colors before.
Or a Republican.
I mean, that’s just the next link down on the human centipede.
Whataboutism is sooooo cool
Why do you assume they can’t want it for both?
Before the war in Ukraine, the poor here were still poor, the homeless still unhoused, the hungry still aching. Americans were destitute before, they still are, and they will be after. Nobody with any amount of influence or power actually gives a fuck about the dregs. Stop acting like if it werent for this or that, just stop. Its disingenuous and would not be fixed either way. They want the threat of destitution, they want you to see these people and fear you will suffer like them so you go to work and make those shareholders money.
I would much rather pay for a missile that Ukraine fires against a Russian tank in Ukraine, than pay for a missile I have to fire against the Russian tank myself after it rolled through Ukraine and to my doorstep.
I would also much rather pay to educate the world (using Russia as an example) that the international community isn’t putting up with wars of aggression and won’t let you get away with them, than have the world thrown into disarray when the next country decides to disrupt global supply chains with their war of aggression.
Supporting Ukraine is a smart thing regardless of what you think of Ukraine. It’s also the morally right thing, but if you don’t care about that, egoism should drive you to the same decision.
Supporting Ukraine is a smart thing regardless of what you think of Ukraine. It’s also the morally right thing, but if you don’t care about that, egoism should drive you to the same decision.
Mood. I’m generally an idealist in terms of motivations, but fuck, it’s hard to take people seriously who pick the decision that’s both morally wrong AND stupid.
“We should worry about FOOD prices going up, not Ukraine!” - Person who doesn’t realize that two of the world’s largest wheat producers are currently at war because one of them is led by a fascist dipshit
Wait using federal funds to ensure that the less fortunate and clothed and fed?..isn’t that socialism?
Oh right…it’s not actually about the well-being of your fellow man is it…
Well, I’ve been to Donetsk and Mariupol a decade prior to the Putin’s invasion (in 2014). Those two towns (less than a days drive part by slow Ukrainian bus, the latter on the coast) are now smoking craters thanks to shitbag loser Putin. All the cool people I met at the churches (now rubble) and the ones that went with us to see the Sea of Azov on a gray day including that dude showing off his Lada Niva… are probably all dead now.
I’ve heard the same Putin song and dance already. I bet he’d love it we actually bought into this bullshit and cut funding to Ukraine. And his Trumper lackeys seem to be serving him well.
Imagine thinking a dictator gaining power is a good thing for our country. That’s what is baffling.
They want trump to be a dictator so its consistent at least.
Stop, there’s only so much boot leather to go around!
You ready to raise taxes on higher income brackets to make it happen, cap’n? ESPECIALLY motherfuckers like the Waltons, Musk, and Bezos.
I have a feeling you won’t agree to that.
Thank you for this wonderful example of a Strawman Falicy.
Civics 101, the Color of Money
Its very important to know the names of cities. 🤷♀️
Republicans singing the Russian anthem as they walk down the Capitol.
Such patriotism
They went to Moscow on the 4th of July a few years ago.
Speak up; The Republicans can’t hear you over the sound of them licking Putin’s boots.
to be fair russia is a bigger market
This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy met with U.S. lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to make a last-ditch plea to keep military support flowing as he battles Russia, but faced a skeptical reception from some Republicans.
Heading into winter, with tens of thousands of Ukrainians dead, a yawning budget deficit and Russian advances in the east, Zelenskiy is asking Washington to provide badly needed support.
Wearing a black shirt and olive drab trousers, Zelenskiy was met with sustained applause as he entered a closed-door meeting with U.S. senators, and the chamber’s Democratic and Republican leaders pledged their support.
There are just three days before Congress recesses for the year on Friday, and Republicans in the House have until now refused to pass a spending package bill that contains $61.4 billion in Ukraine aid without fiercely disputed changes to U.S. immigration.
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy, who is leading the talks, said he thought lawmakers could reach an immigration deal and pass the spending package before the end of the year.
Ultimately, U.S. troops could be forced to fight Russia, Biden and others warn, if an unchecked Putin invades a European ally covered by NATO’s mutual defense commitments.
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The picture you see McConnell looking like he was just startled awake from a nap.
There’s a last resort, but I would prefer Congress do their jobs.
Honest question from someone who wants to see Ukraine not be overrun by orcs: Why is the US always the one who has to fund wars? There are some countries in the EU that have given a bit of suport, but the guys who are across the ocean seem to be the ones everyone looks to for money. Aren’t you clever enlightened boys and girls from the European Union able to take care of this?
Every single time there is some conflict the idiots in charge here have to get big hard-ons and start getting involved. And we are told to stay out of it. But now Ukraine needs money and for some reason everyone focuses on the US providing it. Same with Israel, why are we the ones who have to prop them up?
I’d really like to know. Everyone hates the US until they want money or weapons. We aren’t the ones next door to russia, the EU is. And we aren’t anywhere near the middle east, so why are we wasting so much money on israel?
USA has to respect the nuclear arms treaty… Ukraine was promised protection in return for giving up nuclear weapons.
Is the EU bound by any such treaty?
Treaties aside, my issue is that it’s always the US that everyone begs money from in these situations. We get shit on constantly for a bunch of reasons, some valid, but when someone comes along and starts making threats the question is always “What will the US do about this?”
Have you checked how many military bases the USA has in other countries? The USA doesn’t give money for nothing. They have military presence in every timezone/hemisphere.
It’s because the US wants to preserve it’s empire. So they need to project power all over the world.
