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McConnell on Ukraine proxy war: "We haven’t lost a single American in this war. Most of the money that we spend, is spent on replenishing weapons, so it’s actually employing people here."[paraphrased] (edition.cnn.com)

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Mitch McConell says the quiet part out loud.

Exact full quote from CNN:

“People think, increasingly it appears, that we shouldn’t be doing this. Well, let me start by saying we haven’t lost a single American in this war,” McConnell said. “Most of the money that we spend related to Ukraine is actually spent in the US, replenishing weapons, more modern weapons. So it’s actually employing people here and improving our own military for what may lie ahead.”

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/4085063

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[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian

[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

The real question is why does russia want to kill Ukrainians to the last Ukrainian.

[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Seriously, to listen to hexbears talk about the Ukranian invasion, you'd think that the US talked Ukraine into invading Russia just for fun, and that Russia was simply left with no choice.

The killing can stop absolutely any day now - all Putin has to do is pull out and pay for his mess, easy peasy

[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You should do more listening to hexbears because that sounds nothing like us.

[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

All you have to do is read through this very thread to find numerous examples of hexbears acting like US liberals are primarily (or second only to Ukraine itself) for the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

"Why could Ukraine have just bent over and let Russia take it over??? And why couldn't the rest of the world just pretend it never happened?? What about 'Murica in the middle east???"

Sounds pretty familiar to me.

[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

I don't see any of that, personally.

Any chance the liberal in your head is editoriakizing some straw men?

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