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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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[-] KerPop47@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Because we promised to help them, and Ukraine deserves independence.

We supply Saudi Arabia with missiles that hit school busses, we should at least also help protect a democracy from being re-colonized.

Putin's Russia is cruel and exploitative. The best thing we can do as a world leader is help a smaller country stand up for itself.

[-] ToxicDivinity@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

We supply Saudi Arabia with missiles that hit school busses

Maybe we're the baddies?

[-] astral_avocado@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

We're not a world police and shouldn't be acting like this and we very suspiciously only help very specific countries enforce their independence

[-] radiofreeval@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

In this war anything is a military target. Apartments, schools, gas stations and civilian infrastructure get bombed. We are going to see more missiles hit school busses.

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