by achrilock
ukraine
And, for the sake of cognitive and ethical consistency, the difference between the Ukraine and Israel situations is Ukraine is an existential defense of a people, who agreed to be effectively disarmed in exchange for western security guarantees, against eradication. Israel is a colonial project that’s been ethnically cleansing Palestine for nearly a century. Israel is the occupier trying to crush an indigenous resistance in order to take the land they live on. Apples n’ oranges. Putins n’ Yahus.
My view is no military aid for anybody. It’s often ineffective, used for purpose without adequate checks on principle or legality, you’re party to a war without control over it, and the process is corrupt as shit. If a war needs to be fought, send your military, that has full accountability to the people who paid for the weapons, to fight it. Evil is defeated. You shrink the military back down to training / logistic-ready levels. That’s how states worked before capitalist empires were a thing.
Israel shouldn’t get anything, at all, because they’re an apartheid state based totally on the concept of ethnically cleansing an entire region, controlled by a theocratic fascist government. It’s like a meaner Iran full of white people with US connections and interests. As to Ukraine, I support the aid because that’s all the wormy fucktards here and in Europe will do because they’re afraid and corrupt. It’s better than nothing. But eventually, you will have to actually fight that war. Be ready.