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To avoid it? All these money are going into funding it.
US government interests are tied to corporations such as google, meta and worst. Israel is one of US allies.
I get it, the interests of the US government are very frequently wrong and harmful to the world.
But even a broken clock is right twice a day. And assisting Ukraine in defending itself against an invasion is, unequivocally, a good thing.
Al capone did plenty of charity, they sure were a good man.
They are sending billions of dollars in weapons to an authoritarian and corrupted government who passed martial law and forbids any man between 18-60 to leave the country, who's also seeking to forcibly repatriate these who fled the country and are eligible for conscription. They are doing this while backing a genocide in israel, selling weapons to dictatorships such as saudi arabia and doing business with countries like china who are directly supplying russia in this war.
They don't give a shit about you and me or common people, rulers do not fight their wars they send others to die for their slimy interests. That's not a good thing.
Cool, also irrelevant.
They past martial law because they are fighting for their sovereignty, my guy. If the US had an invader beating down its doorstep and they had already taken California, I feel like switching to wartime government is justifiable. A draft is unfortunate, but when the alternative is to fold in the face of Russian aggression? That's no choice at all.
See previous. Yes, the US makes a lot of bad decisions. Supplying Ukraine is not one of them.
So it is categorically impossible for leaders of nations to care about the people in the nations they administer? This comes off as incredibly cynical.
Forcing people to fight over invisible line on a map and pushing them into a meat grinder is evil. Rulers do not fight their wars they send peasants to die for them in the front. Freedom should never be abolished, wartimes are even a greater moment to fight for freedom and justice not against it.
They are totally ok with profiting out of people misery and misfortunes, just look how much money they are making out of the war industry these days. They simply are scum, look around yourself they do corporations interests not people.
I'm glad you're opposed to the 2014 annexation of Crimea and the current invasion, very nice! Russia really should stop sending wave after wave of soldiers into the meat grinder just so they can seize more Ukrainian territory.
That is not an answer to my question.
I’m not the commenter you’re arguing with, I’m just reading the conversation, but you’re not engaging with their substantive point, you’re assuming that they hold a position that they don’t hold and you’re arguing with that position instead. I think you both make a valid argument and it’s a little frustrating seeing such interesting debates just go ignored because people miss the point