"Are they stopping the Houthis? No. Are they gonna continue? Yes," Biden told reporters aboard Air Force One. 🤡 : us

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 33 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Waving my cowboy hat, clutching a bomb between my thighs, and screaming "You're all about to find out why we can't afford health care!" as I plummet towards the earth.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 15 points 10 months ago

🤣

[-] SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 10 months ago

I probably don’t know as much, but to me it seems that even with all that funding they’re not doing as much as you’d think. But maybe that’s because they’re not sending their own soldiers, then again they couldn’t even succeed in Afghanistan…

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago

They're definitely sending special forces and they're very likely using some amount of "military advisors" to train and arm the Ukrainian rank and file.

A big chunk of the money is getting pissed away on mercenaries and other military contractors, certainly. This is still, at its heart, a jobs program for Nicolas Cage's character from Lord of War.

[+] tired_of_sinophobia@lemmygrad.ml 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 24 points 10 months ago

the same people who thought that pumping weapons into Ukraine will be the way to end the war quicker

[-] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 16 points 10 months ago

There are people who will read this sentence and think

Nah, that's just pacifying filler text in between random facts. No reads this and then thinks about what it means, its the vibes that matter. And the vibes are "war bad but necessary because terrorists need to be stopped, thank God for the US military".

[-] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 10 months ago

They are getting more openly ghoulish by the day.

[-] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 10 months ago

Yeah it really feels like The West is collectively losing their shit

[-] Maturin@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months ago

Biden has actually been this openly ghoulish for a half a century at this point. Look for that quote from him on the senate floor in the 80s talking about the massacres in Lebanon.

[-] SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 10 months ago

In my PoliSci class we were briefly talking about Biden bombing the Houthis (in reference to logic of consequences) and my professor said the Houthis are not scared of Biden’s bombs, they’ve been bombed by the Saudis for years, this will not deter them. They’re fearless and determined.

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