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[โ€“] pedalmore@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Classic, of course you follow with whattaboutism. Like I said, we've seen the Russian talking point already. Next.

Also the US isn't single handedly supporting Ukraine. You need to dramatically increase your whattaboutism to cover the other 50 or so countries.

[โ€“] jwiggler@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Its just a lack of consistency, I don't know what to tell you. You can't tell me the US sends military aid to Ukraine in order to "defend democracy," when in numerous other cases of sovereign countries being occupied, we do nothing, or we even support the occupiers, in Palestine's case.

This lack of consistency lends itself to the idea that there are further interests besides "defending democracy" for which we send Ukraine weapons. I'm not sure how else to put it. If it were about the moral imperative of defending occupied people's, you can pick out numerous similar examples where we have not acted, and you just have to conclude that there are other factors behind the US sending aid to Ukraine. One is the perceived threat the country feels from Russia, which I think is probably exacerbated by the press. One is the perpetuation of the constant war economy we have, and one is the increased political unity that war brings.

But I'm curious about your position, you're dismissing my arguments as "whataboutism," but what exactly would you assert instead? Do you think that Ukraine deserves our aid more than Palestine does? Is it that Russia is a grave threat to the United States? I'm genuinely curious