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

  • Gsus4@feddit.nl
    42·
    1 year ago

    Yes, but the point is with Cuba, missiles were removed, peace deal was reached.

    Does the US have to place nukes in Ukraine so that by removing them russia will stop attacking it?

    But by all means, if Trump starts threatening Mexico with some bullshit invasion to clean out the cartels, they should by all means ask China and anyone else to help out, sure! That’s how it works in a bipolar world (there is no multipolar world, russia’s empire is gone and China+US will make sure it never returns)

    NATO is not hostile to russia, NATO prevents russia from invading its western neighbours, which is obviously a bummer to russia.

    The sustainable security solution is: russia respects borders and other countries’ sovereignty. The end.

    • MultigrainCerealista [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      44·
      1 year ago

      Yes, but the point is with Cuba, missiles were removed, peace deal was reached.

      Yeah so the obvious conclusion is that peace in Cuba required satisfying the US’s demand to not have a Soviet military presence there.

      Likewise peace in Ukraine requires not having a NATO military presence there.

      Pretending that NATO isn’t hostile to Russia is also simply disconnected from reality. You need to connect your world view to reality.

      • Landrin201@lemmy.mlEnglish
        33·
        1 year ago

        Also we have been punishing Cuba with an embargo which has crippled their economy ever since just because we can.

      • Gsus4@feddit.nl
        32·
        1 year ago

        Well, the weapons are still in Cuba, thank god :) and Cuba has an air force, which I suppose was given/sold to Cuba by the USSR/China, so maybe the US can also give some F16 to Ukraine. The USSR also sent planes and soviet crews to fight the Americans in Vietnam, so there is precedent for all that.

        NATO is hostile to russia’s imperial ambitions and so are all of its neighbours.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      Yes, but the point is with Cuba, missiles were removed, peace deal was reached.

      You get that in this analogy Ukraine is taking the place of Cuba, right? Like NATO is using Ukraine as a disposable proxy to bleed Russia… okay well the metaphor falls apart because the details are really different, but Cuba was threatening the US in a vaguely similar way to how Ukraine is threatening Russia, and the peace deal was that Cuba would remove all the missiles and in exchange the US would remove it’s missiles from Turkey and not massacre the Cuban population. So the equivalent would be Ukraine agreeing not to join NATO (not that NATO was ever going to let them), disarm, and stop trying to wipe out Russian speaking Ukrainians.

      NATO is not hostile to russia

      NATO’s explicit purpose is and always have been the destruction of the Russian state and the pillaging of it’s resources and it’s beyond bad faith to state otherwise.