KerPop47@lemmy.mltoWorld News@lemmy.ml•McConnell on Ukraine proxy war: "We haven’t lost a single American in this war. Most of the money that we spend, is spent on replenishing weapons, so it’s actually employing people here."[paraphrased]
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1 year agoBecause we promised to help them, and Ukraine deserves independence.
We supply Saudi Arabia with missiles that hit school busses, we should at least also help protect a democracy from being re-colonized.
Putin’s Russia is cruel and exploitative. The best thing we can do as a world leader is help a smaller country stand up for itself.
Russia can unilaterally end the war by leaving Ukrainian territory. They choose to extend the war because they want land and resources.