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White House to send new $300m weapons package to Ukraine
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I mean, defending the borders of a sovereign, democratic state from invasion, rape, murder and genocide seems like "something useful" to me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ukraine is not a democracy anymore it's a military state under martial law where no man between 18 and 60 can surpass an invisible line on the map or they would get arrested. There are a thousand ways to help ukrainian people that don't involve forcing them into a proxy war against russia. For example sanctioning Arab Emirates where russian are chilling or stopping business partnerships with china who is providing russia weapons. Politicians simply are not interested in this, they seek profits and building weapons and giving them to other governments is an investment for them and a tool to increase their power. The west and russia too are supporting and making possible a genocide in gaza right now, rulers don't care about people.
Every state for the last 2500 years (and probably before) has had the possibility martial law and every democracy in the world has it now. Sometimes martial law is necessary, like when people come to rape your sister and murder your grandmother and wipe out your culture.
It does not make a country "not a democracy anymore" to use it appropriately and there is no question that it's being used appropriately here.
Ukraine can't win without foreign troops on the ground, though.
This is just using them as cannon fodder to weaken Russia.
I feel bad for the Ukrainians duped by the West into thinking they actually have a chance because of some weapons.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
Jaaayyyysus.....All you ever do is come into these threads repeating "Ukraine can’t win without foreign troops on the ground" over and over and over.
4 times in the last 2 days by my quick check. (edit: sorry, 5 and more if we go back to 3 days)
Alright, alright. We heard you. You can stop saying it now.
You could report them for trolling behavior across multiple posts
Winning isn’t invading Russia. Winning is pushing Russia out. It’s looking grim for the Ukraine but it’s not impossible for them to win.
If all the lefties would go of there they’d be able to win but that has not happened yet.