Republicans serve their master well.
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As long as conservatives have any power, they will always support Putin. Conservatives support genocide. That is just who they are at their core.
Throughout history, the nations committing genocide have always been the most conservative. We cannot fight genocide without fighting conservatism.
Losing this war is going to get us into a world war.
Everyone knows this. The people who are preventing aid have already chosen their side
Literally siding with Russia against the American people... After all those wars against communism, this is where we wound up.
But Russia isn't communist so that's kind of irrelevant. Modern Russia is just a very conservative corrupt dictatorship, just like what Republicans want.
Yet we can give Israel more bombs no problem
~~USA~~ Russia first!
MRGA, fuck yeah
Don’t pretend Biden isn’t an unabashed Zionist and didn’t go around congress to send Israel weapons
US: "Stop blowing up Russian oil refineries."
Ukraine: "Then fucking help us, for christ sake!"
They never asked them to stop destroying refineries.
First of all, paywall. Second of all, IIRC "anonymous sources say" and US said they never asked them to not target oil infrastructure.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Ukrainian forces would have to cede further territory to Russia if US military aid does not arrive soon, President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned, in his latest appeal to Congress to pass a multibillion-dollar package.
“If there is no US support, it means that we have no air defense, no Patriot missiles, no jammers for electronic warfare, no 155-millimeter artillery rounds,” he told The Washington Post during a recent interview published Friday.
Much of Ukraine’s east has been under Russian military control since Moscow launched its invasion more than two years ago.
While its strategic significance is limited, the loss of Avdiivka - taken together with Moscow’s capture of the town of Bakhmut last year - indicates how the war appears to have turned in Russia’s favor.
This came after Putin secured an unsurprising victory in a widely discredited presidential election earlier this month.
“If the front remains stable, Ukraine can arm and train new brigades in the rear to conduct a new counteroffensive later this year,” he said.
The original article contains 476 words, the summary contains 165 words. Saved 65%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
While we continue to give arms to a country committing genocide. Welcome to AIPAC power over US citizens
The western 'aid' is restricted to holding the line, not counterattack, right? How does it serve Ukraine's interests moving forward? Establish a head to support efforts to advance into Russian territory?
What line are you talking about? The Russian army is in ukrainian territory and needs to be kicked out, no one is talking about invading Russia.
No argument about that. But Russia (not me) still believes crimea is their territory. What I meant above is that I was under the impression that the western aid is provided under tha agreement that it will not be used on russian territories. Even if all the western countries believes Crimea belongs to Ukraine, the Russians may take it differently, causing some difficulties. I believe Russia should gtfo, willingly or by force.
I seem to remember sth like that was said at the beginning of the war.
Now France is talking about putting boots on the ground, multiple attacks on Crimean infrastructure already happened and Europe is getting more worried about the getting attacked as well if Putin gets his way.
I doubt anyone cares about it anymore and Putin can punch sand.
Wdym the Western aid is restricted from counterattacking? Nothing about that is true, U.S. aid is being held up solely by the Republicans, and European aid is continuing mostly as normal. None of Ukraine's counteroffensives have ever led to a decrease in aid, only an increase.
Typically the rules have been that they can use the weapons on occupied Ukrainian lands, but not pre-2014 Russian territory.
They can use the aid to take back what has been stolen but can't use missiles to bomb Moscow for added pressure to stop the war.