White House downplays CNN poll showing majority of Americans oppose more US aid for Ukraine | CNN Politics
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The White House on Wednesday downplayed CNN polling showing most Americans oppose Congress providing additional funding to support Ukraine in its war with Russia ahead of a reported administration request for more aid.

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

  • gnuhaut@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Because what makes you think that if Russia didn’t get stuck in Ukraine they wouldn’t invade Georgia next? And then Moldova?

    What makes me think that is that Russia has tried multiple times to solve the conflict in Donbas diplomatically, and that they didn’t want to annex it in the Minsk agreements. Can you libs do anything but make inappropriate WW2 comparisons?

    You do realize that the Ukrainian president does photo ops hugging Neo-Nazis, and that these guys are free to operate and have state backing? Ukraine even gave Russian Neo-Nazis a bunch of Bradleys and told them to attack into Russia proper. Ukrainians right now are living under a fascist regime, one that openly celebrated Nazi collaborating mass murderers.

    I can already hear you say “those are not a majority”. Well why does that matter if it’s official state policy to promote, fund and arm those fuckers?

      • gnuhaut@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        If Putin is such a Nazi, where’s the ethnonationalism? You do know that Nazis believe in racial supremacy?

        The regime in Kiev also jails and murders their opponents, and how is that relevant to whether Putin is a Nazi? The Nazis weren’t the only ones who did that.

        You’re removing all meaning from the word Nazi if you call Putin one. He doesn’t believe the same shit as the Nazis, and he hasn’t done any crimes as heinous as the Nazis’.

          • gnuhaut@lemmy.ml
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            1 year ago

            Well, I tried. You’d rather downplay Nazi mass murder then back down, do you? Get fucked.

              • gnuhaut@lemmy.ml
                1·
                1 year ago

                No you’re not. You are comparing this conflict with one of the worst campaigns of genocide in human history. You’re up-playing it.

                  • gnuhaut@lemmy.ml
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                    1 year ago

                    in order to murder innocent civilians and commit countless war crimes

                    You think they do this “in order to murder innocent civilians”? Like this is the end goal? They just love murdering so much. And you base your political opinions on this genius analysis?