This is so cool. STOP FUNDING WAR.
this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2025
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Guess what. War is gonna happen regardless. Except now the Ukrainians are going to have a harder time fighting back, while the russians start their pogroms.
Right then why fund them and send people to their deaths?
Why not just succeed a little land and sign a cease fire
Russia will keep killing Ukrainians, so they need be forced to stop. Letting russia next it's neighbours is a fucking stupid take. Appeasing the colonial fascist has never gone well before, and it won't now. Ukrainians are fighting for their homes. Succeeding land like Crimea didn't stop russia from invading so it won't stop it again.
It's better to try something. What your idea is to do nothing. Great idea, let's just continue letting people die.
It's better to try something. What your idea is to do nothing. Great idea, let's just continue letting people die.
No, my idea isn't to "do nothing". It's to fund and support Ukrainian sovereignty lol. No clue where the fuck you are pulling that from. You want more people to die, let russia have it's way, way more people will die. I'm glad your comfortable with the thought of other countries just annexing territory on a whim. Fucking shit tier take
Oh sorry, your supporting Ukraine, so they can continue the killing. What a moronic route.
So just continue with the killing.
That's not doing anything differently.
Succeeding land will stop the war.
Make Russia sign a peace treaty with America and Ukraine for the land.
It's infinitely better than your idea of just continue the killing. "It's fine"
Brain-dead.
Oh sorry, your supporting Ukraine, so they can continue the killing. What a moronic route.
Nah, I'm supporting Ukraine to defend their sovereignty. The killing can stop, russia needs to fuck back off to russia
Ceeding the land to russia won't stop any war, at best it will put a temporary pause until they want more, causing more pain and suffering and death.
Make russia fuck back off to russia is the only viable option, unless you think appeasing fascist dictators is a good idea.
Brain-dead.
That is the only explanation as to why you said the things to say. Hey being self aware is step one. Maybe don't victim blame.
How is this not seen as anything but a massive conflict of interest by anybody with any sort of authority in the current government? How?
the democrats did nothing in their time to safe guard democracy, hoping to wield fascism as a threat to motivate us to vote for their 2000-2008 era conservatism. it was an extremely dangerous game, and one they lost, because they failed to account for how fucking racist and unhinged one third of this country is. the consequence of them being fine with using fascism as a threat against us is that they are also fine with fascism being used against us. they'll just go along with the fascist coup so long as it's apparently what we want
Democrats have no more interest in safeguarding democracy than Republicans do. If they did, they wouldn't continue using their ratchet effect that prevents Republican legislation from ever slipping back. And as Republicans keep shifting even further to the right, democrats continue to fill the void that Republicans just left. This is a result of 50 years of incremental fascism masquerading as 'lesser evil.'
I kinda wonder what people in the 3 letter agencies are thinking right now. I would hope that enough of these agencies actually view Trump as a fundamental threat to democracy, because he actually is. People have warned for this to happen, for a while now, even though many are surprised at the speed at which it happens. But still, you would kind of hope for some of these agencies to actually stand for the constitution, instead of for the ruling party and his current president.
The US is so much more than just the current political ruling class. It's sad that there seems at least, to be so little visible opposition to their efforts to derail the US geopolitical power and to overthrow the system of law and order. One who the Republicans should hold deep, and definitely the people who pledge their allegiance to the constitution. I wonder if it would have gone different if someone like Saunders or Obama would have tried a similar play.
Derailing US political power is a good thing. Not good for the US, but good for the world.
We will see. Pax Americana has been a hugely stabilizing force in many regions around the world. If an empire falls, fighting over the power vacuum commences. Empires get replaced by chaos and eventually other empires.