Zelenskiy makes 11th hour plea for Ukraine war funds in Washington

You can be against an immediate global threat without being against better conditions for your country. One does not exclude the other. Nuance and priority.

It’s adorable when the right pretends to care about the poor and homeless in America.

only a Russian would ask a question that stupid and cowardly

Whataboutism is sooooo cool

oh you like Ukraine? Name every city.

Well, I've been to Donetsk and Mariupol a decade prior to the Putin's invasion (in 2014). Those two towns (less than a days drive part by slow Ukrainian bus, the latter on the coast) are now smoking craters thanks to shitbag loser Putin. All the cool people I met at the churches (now rubble) and the ones that went with us to see the Sea of Azov on a gray day including that dude showing off his Lada Niva.. are probably all dead now.

I've heard the same Putin song and dance already. I bet he'd love it we actually bought into this bullshit and cut funding to Ukraine. And his Trumper lackeys seem to be serving him well.

Why do you assume they can't want it for both?

Before the war in Ukraine, the poor here were still poor, the homeless still unhoused, the hungry still aching. Americans were destitute before, they still are, and they will be after. Nobody with any amount of influence or power actually gives a fuck about the dregs. Stop acting like if it werent for this or that, just stop. Its disingenuous and would not be fixed either way. They want the threat of destitution, they want you to see these people and fear you will suffer like them so you go to work and make those shareholders money.

Imagine thinking a dictator gaining power is a good thing for our country. That's what is baffling.

I would much rather pay for a missile that Ukraine fires against a Russian tank in Ukraine, than pay for a missile I have to fire against the Russian tank myself after it rolled through Ukraine and to my doorstep.

I would also much rather pay to educate the world (using Russia as an example) that the international community isn't putting up with wars of aggression and won't let you get away with them, than have the world thrown into disarray when the next country decides to disrupt global supply chains with their war of aggression.

Supporting Ukraine is a smart thing regardless of what you think of Ukraine. It's also the morally right thing, but if you don't care about that, egoism should drive you to the same decision.

Wait using federal funds to ensure that the less fortunate and clothed and fed?...isn't that socialism?

Oh right...it's not actually about the well-being of your fellow man is it..

How about we do both? Continue to fund Ukraine in order to provide a stopgap against Russian encroachment and destabilization of Eastern Europe, as well as take care of people in America? It wouldn't even be that hard.

Tax the rich so they pay their fair share. Use that money to fund social programs and boost the economy for the middle class and lower. Tax businesses to the point where it's more lucrative to reinvest in their own companies than it is to make massive profits - this promotes raising wages. Cap executive pay to a fixed rate above the lowest-paid employee. Just like that, the 'richest country in the world' can act like it and not relegate their poorest to third-world conditions.

But you weren't interested in a real answer, were you? Just shilling for the alt-right and Russia.

Stop, there's only so much boot leather to go around!

You ready to raise taxes on higher income brackets to make it happen, cap'n? ESPECIALLY motherfuckers like the Waltons, Musk, and Bezos.

I have a feeling you won't agree to that.

You should want that for your own country.

My country, the USA, could easily accomplish both if the political will was there.

Its very important to know the names of cities. 🤷‍♀️

Thank you for this wonderful example of a Strawman Falicy.

Civics 101, the Color of Money

Are you so fucking ignorant that you can’t name Kyiv or Sevastopol or Odessa?!? Do you really not understand the significance of these cities? Or Lviv? Chernobyl? Chernivtsi?

They went to Moscow on the 4th of July a few years ago.

Is the EU bound by any such treaty?

Treaties aside, my issue is that it's always the US that everyone begs money from in these situations. We get shit on constantly for a bunch of reasons, some valid, but when someone comes along and starts making threats the question is always "What will the US do about this?"

Thanks for actually answering the question I asked. Not many have managed that.

I didn't say we are the only ones, i said we are alwsys expected to throw money and equipment at any of the EU's little scares, while being shit on the rest of the time.