by achrilock
united states
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.
Citizens are reminded that fighter planes and heavy munitions do not eliminate insurgent fighters. They create new ones, often more than there were before. Furthermore, doublespeak is not as effective as the elderly might hope, and the domestic electorate is not as naive or as disconnected as they were in the 1990s. Is one fascist imperial foothold across the world worth another costly, crushing defeat? Remember the lessons of history. It is not your place. They are not, the hell, your whales.
Anyway, word on the street is that Israel got caught murdering too many fancy whites (not sure what their skin color was, nor does it matter, now, because everyone turns gray when dead and race is a sociopolitical construct). Anyway, people who had visible connections, who ‘mattered.’ The world’s recrimination is welcome, but it is also hypocritical and self-deprecating, The problem for all of you isn’t the killing. It’s that the victims weren’t sufficiently branded as disposable people first.
And worst of all, the little spritz of slurry on top of the shit sundae, is the fact that a lot of them airdrops seem to be failing. How hard is gravity? What are the American purple paying for? What if the trapezoid had to invade the orphanage to stop the Kremlin Hitler baby from invading Chinese waters? And the fuel for the brave men women was compressed sandwich meat product? Would it arrive? No, no it would not! And that failure is coming out of your checks, my friends. Gone!
If you want that journalist being held in Russia back, your best bet is to send some guys to go in and get him. The more you dignify regimes like Putin’s Russia with diplomatic courtesies and recognition of legitimacy, the worse they will behave. If you were truly an exceptional state, your rules would be the only rules that matter. But, of course, you aren’t. You’re so terrified that the construct is failing that you have to prop up dictatorships everywhere simply to legitimize the model. Sad.