• scapegarced@sopuli.xyz
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    1 month ago

    There was no money in helping Ukraine, yet it was done. 100% lack of optics due to racism.

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      1 month ago

      Not directly, but by sending weapons etc to Ukraine, the US can basically wage war against Russia with no casualties of their own, while replacing the old stuff they send with new stuff, as well as justifying more military spending in the budget. For the right people, there’s plenty of profits to be made.

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      1 month ago

      I would say “interests at large” rather than dollars.

      Ukraine is military strategic interest (nobody in Europe wants to have Russia to randomly decide to start a war with an EU country)

      In Middle East (with oil) is dollars

      In Taiwan is military strategic interest

      On the other side of the spectrum? Myanmar, Gaza, random African conflicts, etc

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      1 month ago

      There’s rare earth minerals.

      Gaza has nothing other than beachfront real estate, but you got to remove them in order to take advantage of that.

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      1 month ago

      Ukraine is one of the worlds bread baskets and critical to global infrastructure. There was very much money in helping Ukraine.

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      1 month ago

      And yet, as soon as Trump took office they stopped helping ukraine. Your argument is shit, mate.

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            1 month ago

            It’s your lack of basic reading comprehension. See, she said “racism”, not “ONLY BECAUSE OF racism”.

            See those extra words? They modify the context.

            Oh boy, now I have to define context…

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              1 month ago

              Oh boy. If you they would have put that into their argument so that it wasn’t shit 😄

              The word you’re actually looking for is xenophobic, not racism. Xenophobia explains the decisionmaking of states where the culture is at odds.