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

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    why is “leave the place you and yours have lived for countless generations” a preferable option to you? would you see it the same way if this were the choice offered to your city?

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      That’s a great thought process, instead of emigrating from Ireland to the UK, ask the UK to invade Ireland so you don’t have to move and can live with your English buddies. Wtf. Respect borders, move if your country allegiance changes

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          it is, isn’t it? That’s what russian speakers are doing, this just keeps getting better and better.

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                it’s a real conflict you knob. the actual history is exactly the opposite and it’s a great fucking analogy that’s going straight over your head.

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                  Yes, but why cant some dude in Ireland call up his English friends to add bits of Ireland to Northern Ireland? The possibilities are endless without borders just the way putin likes. Or maybe Switzerland or Belgium can join France…I can just keep listing countries that speak the same language as their neighbour that could be invaded to “save the speakers”. Hitler invaded Poland on that pretext too, it’s super versatile.

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                    mate, the Brits literally colonized Ireland and the actual direction people want to go is towards Ireland. there was a real reuinfication conflict. posing a ahistorical hypothetical that’s precisely the opposite of the actual lived reality is fucking hilarious. what you’re saying effectively amounts to “if the Irish in Northern Ireland want to join Ireland so badly, why don’t they simply move there”, which is fucking insane and precisely the point I’ve been making for a half dozen comments.

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        What are you even on, dude? There wasn’t hard border between Russia and Ukraine for Ukraine’s entire existence as a state until the destruction of the USSR. People should flee when their own country decides to kill them? That is actual, real, literal ethnic cleansing and/or genocide?

        Are you seriously saying that all the Russian speaking Ukrainians should have fled Ukraine when the Rada started sending death squads in to the Donbass? Are you really saying that?: