Huh?? The West has been almost entirely united behind Ukraine. I mean it’s the controversial stuff that gets clicks but I don’t think anyone is on Russia’s side here. Hell there’s graphic videos on Lemmy of Russian soldiers being blown to bits and no one bats an eye.
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KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
my favorite is that everybody is referring to the israel palestine thing as a genocide, but i have yet to see anybody piss and shit themselves over what russia is doing to ukraine.
Let alone what russia is doing to it’s own domestic population. Take a guess on how putin is still popular after putting hundreds of thousands of people to death in a needless war.
Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
electric_nan@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
For one thing, the US sends huge amounts of money to Ukraine for defense against Russia, and huge amounts of money to Israel for “defense” against Palestine. I care way less what people “piss and shit themselves over” than where the material support goes.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
this isn’t explicitly true, we spend money on ukraine because russia is illegally invading ukraine, but i’ll give you that one, since most people know that by now.
What we also know, is that russia holding military positions in ukraine, destabilizes the rest of the EU, because now the border states are much more concerned about active invasion. Which disrupts trade, and the global economy, it’s generally a bad thing.
What we know about israel in particular, is that israel is a massive force projector for the US in the middle east, the US is essentially doing their bidding through israel in that regard. If you think the entirety of the bidding that the US is doing is just bombing Palestinians, you probably need to go do some reading.
Like don’t get me wrong, i don’t like it either, i’m not a huge fan, but it’s kind of just the name of the game unfortunately, which btw we have the US retract slightly on it’s stance in the matter, which is a good thing.
electric_nan@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
I have no idea what point you are trying to make here. And I can only laugh when people say shit like “people got too upset that their taxes are funding genocide, and it made me stop caring about the genocide”.
Lumisal@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah but Trump would end support to Ukraine.
electric_nan@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
What does this have to do with my reply or the other user’s comment?
shottymcb@lemm.ee 4 months ago
That in the very real and current contest between Biden and Trump that Biden at least supports Ukraine, whereas Trump supports Russia amd would likely support Isreal to the extent of starting WWIII in the middle east to bring about the apocalypse for his evangelical base, who earnestly believe they’ll be raptured to heaven while the rest of us live through a nightmarish helscape. Which is looking less crazy by the day because same people won’t vote for a old man vs fanatical insanity spearheaded by an also old man.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
yeah and he would also nuke palestine so.