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
Seriously though, where would Ukraine be right now if it didnt have the U.S. right now or even all the other nations donating?
They’d have been fucked.
Everyone wants to joke about Russian military tech but the Ukrainian forces were operating on outdated technology prior to massive NATO overhauls.
The US likely wanted to field modern weapons against Russia so we could 1. Clear out our back stock of older inventory (which Mitch just admitted, basically) and 2. See how said inventory stacked up in a real war against Russia, since we have basically just been fighting rebel insurgents for the last 30 years of warfare and don’t have a good representation of what our modern equipment would be capable of against an actual standing army.
Ukrainian soldiers in 2014 vs 2022.
The U.S. and allies, despite what a lot of people say (usually something like “why haven’t they helped since the war actually started in 2014”) helped transform the Ukranian military into the capable fighting force it is today, and the work started years ago.
Fucked is what Ukraine is right now thanks to US pushing Ukraine into a war it can’t win instead of letting them negotiate.
Pretty sure it was Russia that pushed them into a war. Ukraine offered to not pursue NATO Russia rejected that.
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Fighting a partisan war.
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Like Georgia?
They’re not in NATO and they haven’t tried to attack again, have they? Do you think Georgia is some kind of terrible example? Because I’d rather be in Georgia than Ukraine. I don’t think they’re making Georgians run into minefields right now.
“Russia isn’t invading Georgia right now” isn’t a very good argument, given they invaded it 15 years ago, forcibly removed all ethnic Georgians from those regions they invaded, opened two large military bases on Georgian territory, and to this day occupy those regions.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/30/georgia-attacks-unjustifiable-eu
I guess Russian mercenaries and paramilitary forces don’t count as an invasion, according to this report.
They looked at all that and still concluded that Georgia attacked first, and did not attack preemptively because they were threatened.
It’s a EU report, it’s not pro-Russian. If anything, I’d be biased against Russia. Yet they still conclude that.
If the US sends Blackwater across the Rio Grande to occupy Coahuila, then Mexico fights back to push them out, Mexico started it, right
You don’t actually know anything about Georgia, do you. If you did…
Well that’s vague
Yeah, I guess your right, it’s better to be in Georgia… for now. Because what makes you think that if Russia didn’t get stuck in Ukraine they wouldn’t invade Georgia next? And then Moldova? Did you really buy the “they want to join NATO excuse?”. And by your logic during WWII USA should just give up imminently and hand over Hawaii to Japan, right? And England should also just give up. After all it’s better to live under fascist regime than fight a war. The so called “French way”. That’s one way to look at it. Another way is to say that the less people live in fascist regimes the better, even if takes fighting a war to free them.
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?
So Ukraine is using a Neo-Nazi group to help them defend their independence while Russia has an actual Nazi army that’s murdering civilians and a leader that is an actual Nazi that murders and jails his opponents. Yeah, I think I will still support Ukraine, thanks.
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’.
Starting a war in Ukraine is a crime as heinous as the ones Nazis did. And Putin a dictator a heinous as they get. I would also rather go to war they condemn my country to being part of the shitty Russian empire that can’t offer it’s citizens anything besides corruption, poverty, suffering and total disregard of their rights.
It would be a neutral country that isn’t in a war. Ukraine and Russia almost negotiated peace back in March last year, then US and UK decided to sabotage it, and Ukraine is in a far worse position today than it was back then. Anybody who thinks US is helping Ukraine needs to get their head checked.
You’re really sitting there pretending like you know exactly what went on during those negotiations?
I’m not pretending anything, there was a preliminary document signed and even western media admits that Bojo ran to Ukraine to stop the deal.