“Soon, there may be no one left even to use the weapons they give us,” said the volunteer, Yevhen Tuzov, “because all our Western partners want is for us to fight until the last Ukrainian.” (www.nytimes.com)

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[-] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 20 points 3 weeks ago

Liberals did the same thing in Afghanistan and throughout the Middle East, they're no stranger to this strategy

"Hmm I wonder if training and arming these fundamentalist reactionary jihadists could ever backfire if they decide they hate the decadent and sinful West"

[-] PanArab@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

if they decide they hate the decadent and sinful West

That wasn’t the motive, else they would have attacked Japan.

Plus, this is Arab media https://youtu.be/XcclXnr6UVU

[-] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago

Correct it isn’t the real reason, it’s blowback for imperialism. The quotes were me being a stupid liberal, sorry if that wasn’t clear

[-] PanArab@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

No problem. My sarcasm detector was broken.

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