“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

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[–] mim@lemmy.sdf.org 163 points 2 years ago (278 children)

Russia invades a neighbour who dares to attempt to have stronger ties to the west.

West supplies neighbour with weapons to defend itself.

Tankies on Lemmy: "oh no, Russia is being oppressed"

[–] AttackPanda@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago (34 children)

I hope we can keep supporting Ukraine. This is one of the few times in history when the scenario is so clear cut good vs evil. The Ukrainians fought hard to get out from under the thumb of Russia and the Russians just couldn’t have that so they invaded. The support the world provides to Ukraine is support provided for all Democracies.

[–] Flinch@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Democracy is when you ban all left-leaning parties in your country and burn a hall full of trade unionists alive, and the more parties you ban and trade unionists you burn alive the more democratic you are. I don't see what's so hard for these tankies to get!!

[–] VentraSqwal@links.dartboard.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Plenty of communist countries ban all but one party, and some even suppress trade unions, and you guys are still willing to call them democratic.

[–] Flinch@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Interesting, do you have a source for this? Any particular countries you'd like to critique?

[–] VentraSqwal@links.dartboard.social 2 points 2 years ago

China, Cuba, Vietnam all allow only one political party. As for suppressing trade unions, there's the Jasic incident in China in 2018, where they tried to organize a union and strike and they fired all of them. Despite being Maoist in nature, they were detained, arrested, beaten, and disappeared by the police. And they generally have low rates of trade unions participation.

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