• HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
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        3 hours ago

        this gets into a completely seperate thing. He could not give them it without congress but the US only very reluctantly restricts commerce. Its a very different thing to say im not going to fund your war and im not going to sell you stuff when dealing with a long time ally. And no you don’t just throw away diplomatic relationships easily. If countries did they would have stopped having dealing with us in trumps first term.

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      23 hours ago

      Maybe we shouldn’t have supported Ukraine if it meant supporting genocide

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        You seem very picky as to which genocide is ok.

        The Russian land grab and physical and cultural genocide of Ukraine.

        The Israeli land grab and physical and cultural genocide of Gaza/Palestine.

        You can’t be absolutist about one and hand wave the other.

        No purity for you.

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        12 hours ago

        And in a mirror universe where that decision got made someone’s arguing “maybe we shouldn’t have cut funding to Israel if it meant allowing the genocide in Ukraine.”

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          10 hours ago

          what gets me is would the hamas attack and thus the isreali response happen without putin. Im very suspicious that he was not pushing on making more chaos globally to get our of the cluster fuck he started.