• RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    kind-vladimir-ilyich “Maybe Ukrainians shouldn’t keep dying in this war when the west has no intention of accepting them into NATO”

    maybe-later-kiddofinger-wag “This proxy war is a great return on investment because we don’t have to care for any of the Ukrainian veterans. Got a blown off leg? Slava Ukraini and get back in the front line, patriot!”

    Anyway, something about Soviets and Russians throwing waves of soldiers and elderly people to get slaughtered to win an inch or something

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      There was a comment further down that said “don’t call it a proxy war, it’s not” but didn’t provide any reason lmao

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        Well they love to jack off about hard men making hard decisions while hard, kind of ruins the whole fantasy if they set the whole thing up instead of having to react with steely stoicism to events outside their control

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    I can already tell the second comment is an America worshipper from somewhere in Europe salivating at being a slave to the US. He would probably let the US nuke his own home and cry that they didn’t obliterate everything.

    I always picture these types of people to be like that X-men character, toad. A sniveling little gremlin that looks up at its master with sad, pleading eyes with hope that it too will be seen as an equal. Only for the US to kick them off a helicopter when they’re no longer useful.

    • Wheaties [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      Dumb opinions about a heavily propagandize war an ocean away is one thing.

      But this? this is the kind of delusion that calls everything else you say into question

      • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        People aay the strangest things to justify our military spending.

        I remember once someone responded to the budget increase by saying that “they need to pay the troops, their was a raise for them in the budget.” Do they believe even 1 of those 800+ billions annually goes to paying da troops? A lot of military families are on SNAP, they pay them shit. You could give them a raise and still not scratch the defense budget

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    Are you believing the morning papers?

    War is coming back in style

    There’s generals here, advisers there

    And the Russians nibbling everywhere

    The chessboard’s filling up with red

    We make more profits when we blow off their heads

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    Economy is looking bad

    Let’s start another war (when ya get drafted)

    Fan the fires of racist hatred

    We want total war (when ya get drafted)

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    Drooling fingers, panic buttons

    Playing with missiles like they’re toys

    There’s easy money, easy jobs

    Especially when you build the bombs

    That blow big cities off the map

    Just guess who profits when we build 'em back up

    When Ya Get Drafted, Dead Kennedys

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Pretty sure the least costly way to cripple your foe while hardly lifting a finger is to grab your popcorn and watch as they try to occupy The Graveyard of Empires for 20 years.

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    It never stops being hilarious watching all these suburban masturbators roleplay as either oil excecs or the command staff of the pentagon

    100% these minivan driving dipshits have suffered a financial loss from inflation and they still talk like they have a career stake in the warmaking of the state

    To say nothing of the psychopathic disregard of the lives of millions of Ukrainians

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    It’s fascinating to see these people come to something of an understanding, albeit superficial, of some of the most obvious realist motives and calculations behind the US’s essential involvement in Ukraine as if they were stumbling onto a revelation, which should have been not only obvious before it even began (the US’s foreign policy in this regard hasn’t changed in 30 years) but should have made obvious how incomparably dangerous the US is, only for them to then say: “actually this is smart and good, I love paying top $$$ to impoverish Slavs and Chinese people”.