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its so funny how opposite this is to reagan as well. preregan conservatives are so different from reagan conservatives who are so different from maga conservatives. its nuts.
The only consistant thing about conservatives over history is that they are almost always against good social progress, the ones of the past just had more sturdy spines
Being against progress is kinda in the name tho.. but i guess they can also be considered progressive, except progressing in an exceptionally shitty way
I wish conservatives wanted to conserve the environment
Then to compare them to Mccarthy era these maghats would have been disappeared
Its crazy how you can take the worst of the past with them and they look better than what they currently have.
Yeah, Reagan would probably be selling missiles to Russia to fund drug-smuggling death squads in Nicaragua.
this is tough because it so is not likely but at the same time I have no interest in defending reagan. I mean the reason he interfered in nicaragua is because of the anti commie garbage. although he might like putin given how capitalist he is nowadays. same with china.
What, just because he's betraying an ally for a hostile country actively trying to harm us?
Trump's pause on Ukraine aid is like the U.S. switching sides in WWII, expert says
Nice Shot!
What a save!
Well. That's it then.
Doesn't matter what the terrorists in charge say. Real America should double down on support for our friends in Ukraine.
Funding. Supplies. Volunteer work. Combat footage analysis. Supportive memes and propaganda. Offensive hacking of Russian assets for teh lulz. Whatever we can do.
How do we find the helpers here?
America should double down support for the Ukrainian regime that shot and killed unarmed pro-separatist protestors on film with some of those being shot at, having their hands up with this occurring even before Russian war criminal Igor Girkin ignited everything further? A strange albeit sadly common take.
You're right, governments have done bad things to people before, so we should just deliver a smaller sovereign nation of human beings over to expansionist Russia's butchers.
Conveniently that's suddenly something we should've done all along, because tantrum-orange and his owners say so. (I'm sure it has nothing to do with trying to make a play for raw minerals multinational corpos are hungry for.)
Surely Pooty will stop after butchering and pillaging just one neighbor. Just one country full of people, bro, then the world will finally know peace, bro! /s
This isn't how it worked in history class. So yeah, we're all for supporting a country's right to defend itself from aggression, which will at least leave a chance to sort out the rest later.
MAGA tried to overthrow our government once now government is in their hands. America is doomed.
And the working class is not going to rise up. It's going to eat itself.
We've always been at war with Eurasia
I fucking hate it here.
Well, more to the point: it’s like the US canceling Lend-Lease for the USSR right before the battle of Stalingrad.
The US did halt lend lease shipments to the USSR in the middle of Stalingrad in order to support actions in Tunisia.
That’s a very different context and you know it. That’s resource scarcity and triage. What’s happening now is we’re switching teams to the bad guys.
Yes, I am quite aware. US cut off intelligence to Ukraine and are planning to end sanctions with Russia which is as if the Americans stop cooperation with the Soviets completely during WW2 and gave lend-lease to the Nazis instead.
I personally see Russian conflict with Ukraine to be more grey vs grey considering that there is footage of Ukrainian troops mowing down pro-Russian protesters with guns in post-Maidan Mariupol (not as bad as Russia’s Bucha atrocity I admit) but to each their own.
Inside Job called it.
"We're casting crisis actors for WWIII. Spoiler alert, America is the bad guy this time!"
fuck this fucking corpo nazi timeline
When you stop holding international laws when it doesnt work for you “see the zionist project” and then try to force it when it work for you, “see iran sanction and russia sanction” then now you get into a situation where a powerful government stop to pretend and ask “why i am doing this for other countries when i can take the money for myself”
European has supported the united state atrocity fully knowing they are committing illegal and war crimes, “see Iraq war” it is surprising to see these leader being shocked because any one with brain cell can tell you not to trust the US or any other country for that matter and always have plan b, c, to z.
It would only be like switching sides if they were supplying things to Russia
Not taking Sides is not the same as switching sides
They are taking sides by stoping aid to Ukraine and lifting the embargo against Russia Keep up.
You mean like voting with Russia, China and North Korea? Doesn't sound like "not taking sides" to me.
It would only be like switching sides if they were supplying things to Russia
Like, ending sanctions and buying and selling things? Like selling them ammo?
That last part isn't in the news - yet - but they're definitely poised to Supply Things to Russia.
First the U.S now John Cena 😭
The US has been ditching its allies a thousand times over. Using this comparison for Ukraine is a stretch
It isnt if you actually look at the context instead of just slinging about fallacious platitudes
The apt comparison would be the full on Holocaust America is bankrolling in Palestine.