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 mean, yes - as a matter of fact. Just look in this thread at the numerous comments from those two instances of users saying that Ukraine should have just surrendered, and that it’s their fault for not agreeing to Putin’s “peace” proposal.
You’re definitely not going to hear me argue in favor of NATO’s actions, but none of that (with the exception of Ukraine joining NATO) excuses an invasion of Ukraine - and regarding Ukraine joining NATO - they’re a sovereign state, it’s not Russias right to invade their neighbors because they don’t like Ukraines international policy. If the US decided to invade Mexico because they were thinking about signing a mutual defense agreement with China, you can bet your ass I’d be out in the street protesting the war.
And if we’re going to say that a country deserves to be ravaged because a small portion of their population espouses white supremacist policies, then I guess the U.S., Italy, Germany, Russia itself, and a whole shitload others should start getting shelled as well. Unfortunately, for very complex reasons, a huge chunk of the world has a neonazi problem right now, using it as an excuse for an invasion is absolute bull shit.
Except that it does. Russia invaded Ukraine - and so far they haven’t given a single signal that they’d be willing to any peace agreement that leaves Ukraine with it’s original borders. Ultimately if Ukraine loses, it’ll mean that it will be annexed. It would be a very different situation if Russia was offering a real peace (one that doesn’t involve Ukraine giving up it’s own territory) and Ukraine was being obstinate, but there is no realistic pacifist position to be taken here
I’m not debating. The original conversation was that you said communists supported Russia because they think it’s communist, and I clarified that they really don’t.