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McConnell on Ukraine proxy war: "We haven’t lost a single American in this war. Most of the money that we spend, is spent on replenishing weapons, so it’s actually employing people here."[paraphrased] (edition.cnn.com)
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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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[–] 6 points 3 years ago (8 children)

No political theory. No ad hominem attacks. Who start shooting first?

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  • [–] 39 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    What the fuck do you not understand? I do not care. It does not matter to me who starts a war when both sides are bourgeoisie. And it does not fucking matter to me who wins them. I will not cheerlead either side of a bourgeoise war. I am not a psychotic nationalist. I am an internationalist.

    Fucking trying to remove politics from a war is utterly deranged.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago

    Well, Ukraine. Or, rather, Right-wing nationalist Galacians who trapped dozens of Ukrainian union members who were the wrong kind of Ukrainian in a building them threw firebombs in until all the Ukrianians in the building burned to death.

    Then the nationalist Galacians attacked the legitimate president, who had considerable support in eastern Ukraine.

    Then the coup Rada started sending Nazi death squads in to Donbas, and shelled Donbass with artillery for like eight years.

    Then the UA military staged a massive build up to invade Donbas with... uh... questionable intentions towards the Russian speaking Ukrainian population, and at that point Russia invaded.

    So.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    No political theory

    "Go ahead and duel me, just take off your clothes first and drop your weapon"

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  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago

    And it doesn't even work bc afaik the first shots in the civil war were when the nationalists trapped all those Ukrainians in the union building and burned them all to death.

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