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"support" or lack thereof from the other side of the world is mostly meaningless, except if it can move the needle on US government policy.
I dont want the US to send weapons to ukraine, as US interests there are not in helping ukraine win (it seems unlikely that they really could even with an endless flow of weapons), but in hurting russia via a prolonged quagmire of a war that will continue to kill conscripts, civilians, etc. all along the way and empower fascists. Western interests are the reason there wasn't a chance at diplomatic peace much earlier in the war
similarly I don't want the US to send weapons to Israel, where they will be used to ethnically cleanse palestinians and defend their apartheid state from any regional opposition.
Saying that ukraine and palestine are the same is honestly almost offensive in how reductive and inaccurate it is. An oppressed people struggling against settler colonialism and genociders is not the same as two bourgeois states fighting over territory, even if one is bigger.
Also, Hamas became what it is today because of israel's support, to delegitimize the palestinian cause, whereas neonazis in ukraine are not a russian creation, but empowered in large part by the US in euromaidan
I think that being against the US sending weapons abroad is the bare minimum for someone on the anti-war left