Grim realization settles in over state of Ukraine war as Washington fights over funding | CNN Politics
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As President Biden continues to urge top lawmakers to approve his $60 billion aid request for Ukraine, a grim realization has settled in among officials across the administration that this is likely the last chance for any new US military funding to flow to the war-torn country before the election.

lots of copium as usual, mixed with signs of panic

https://archive.is/2024.01.19-135709/https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/19/politics/grim-realization-ukraine-washington-funding-fight/index.html

  • albigu@lemmygrad.ml
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    11 months ago

    My favourite is this one:

    CW: redditism

    Never thought I’d see the day the Americans were too cowardly to stand up to Russia. Gonna suck when it’s eventually US bodies in the trenches of Europe instead of Ukrainians.

    There are so many quiet parts said out loud there I don't even know where to begin listing them.

    I also like this one, for implying that Russia winning will mean control over the fucking Atlantic Ocean!

    CW: redditism

    It’s not just that… China never runs Taiwan and suddenly you have China facing off the pacific and Russia overlooking the Atlantic and USA is in the middle

    redditors make me feel things.

    • huf [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      being even the slightest bit pressed back from your 1000 military bases around the world, many of the in the literal faces of your declared enemies (but also trading partners, wtf) is like minas tirith under siege, the end of everything.

      just like the line has to go up constantly, so does the empire, or it's immediately under dire existential threat.

      psychotic.

    • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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      11 months ago

      Those are a lot. Damn. I usually make fun of libs for being overly verbose, but those two sentences contain a neutron star's worth of condensed bullshit.

    • SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml
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      11 months ago

      When they say the Atlantic do they actually mean the Pacific? I don’t understand why Russia would overlook the Atlantic geographically…

      • albigu@lemmygrad.ml
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        11 months ago

        They think that, if Russia wins in Ukraine they'll keep marching on through the entirety of Europe due to some video game "war fever" logic. Redditors live in a very interesting alternate reality.