Sure what sen. Blum. Said taken out of context is bad but the people he’s trying to get some support out of with his statement is the right wingers/capitalist types to be less anti us support in Ukraine.
Romney as always is indefensible.
From real Politik perspective they’re 100% right based off only the title.
From real life they’re correct that helping Ukraine helps the USA indirectly and even if somehow lives weren’t being lost to this war it would still help the military industrial complex greatly in ways that actually benefit the USA at least somewhat (we’re tossing out a bunch of outdated, expensive to maintain vehicles and getting up to date ones instead) and this is one of the rare times that the USA is doing something for a relatively good cause for once.
I get this is an anti war publication but be fucking real, war ain’t leaving anytime soon, every ideology, tribe, government type, and religion has and will again engage in it with very few exceptions. And those exceptions usually mean tiny island tribes where there’s no land to conquer/reclaim/defend
What a colossally dishonest take. Being glad no American lives are being lost is not the same as disregarding Ukrainian lives. And it sure as hell doesn’t support the implication that withholding assistance to those struggling in the face of Russian imperialism is a superior outcome to the status quo that somehow respects Ukrainian lives to a greater degree.
(Personal opinion): It would be a better discussion by far to make a policy argument in good faith and be prepared to defend the likely outcome with logic and evidence, rather than bombarding the site with this drive-by libertarian agitprop.
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What a dogshit article.
Sure what sen. Blum. Said taken out of context is bad but the people he’s trying to get some support out of with his statement is the right wingers/capitalist types to be less anti us support in Ukraine.
Romney as always is indefensible.
From real Politik perspective they’re 100% right based off only the title.
From real life they’re correct that helping Ukraine helps the USA indirectly and even if somehow lives weren’t being lost to this war it would still help the military industrial complex greatly in ways that actually benefit the USA at least somewhat (we’re tossing out a bunch of outdated, expensive to maintain vehicles and getting up to date ones instead) and this is one of the rare times that the USA is doing something for a relatively good cause for once.
I get this is an anti war publication but be fucking real, war ain’t leaving anytime soon, every ideology, tribe, government type, and religion has and will again engage in it with very few exceptions. And those exceptions usually mean tiny island tribes where there’s no land to conquer/reclaim/defend
What a colossally dishonest take. Being glad no American lives are being lost is not the same as disregarding Ukrainian lives. And it sure as hell doesn’t support the implication that withholding assistance to those struggling in the face of Russian imperialism is a superior outcome to the status quo that somehow respects Ukrainian lives to a greater degree.
(Personal opinion): It would be a better discussion by far to make a policy argument in good faith and be prepared to defend the likely outcome with logic and evidence, rather than bombarding the site with this drive-by libertarian agitprop.