Ukraine aid vote: US House of Representatives approves critical $61bn package - BBC News
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The long-awaited vote comes as Ukrainian troops face a weapons shortage in the war against Russia.
  •  ninjaphysics   ( @ninjaphysics@beehaw.org ) 
    13•28 days ago

    In an alternate timeline, the title to this post could refer to the amount of relief for student loan debt, or state grants for humanely addressing the homelessness, lack of healthcare accessibility, and climate crisis, for starters.

    •  blindsight   ( @blindsight@beehaw.org ) 
      13•27 days ago

      Sure, those are important, too. But it’s kinda a big deal to put a stop to the idea that military conquest is fine, so defending Ukraine (and potentially Taiwan) are important, too.

      Supporting Israel’s genocide is, however, reprehensible. And is just as bad (worse?) than what Russia is doing in Ukraine or that China is doing in Taiwan.

      China’s genocide against the Uyghurs gets a pass, politically, because they already control the territory. And what they’re doing in Hong Kong and want to do to Taiwan are terrible, but not in the same level

      •  apotheotic(she/they)   ( @apotheotic@beehaw.org ) English
        5•27 days ago

        Oh, absolutely. I’m not OP but I think they mean “in some alternate time line, Putin isn’t an evil piece of shit, and we can spend this 61B on these other issues”

        I read it as them lamenting the fact that Putin could just not wage war and we’d have all this extra ability to solve other issues.

        •  brain_in_a_box   ( @brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml ) 
          3•27 days ago

          Lol, imagine thinking that Putin is the reason this money isn’t being spent on student loan relief, supporting the homeless, lack of healthcare, and the climate crisis.

          Seriously, at this point both sides of the political divide have fully embraced blaming anything and everything on foreign scapegoats.

      •  Zagorath   ( @Zagorath@aussie.zone ) 
        2•28 days ago

        or that China is doing in Taiwan.

        ?

        Do you mean that they’re threatening to do to Taiwan? Because so far they’ve done nothing but posture. Or maybe you meant Hong Kong, which is certainly really, really bad, but I don’t think rises to nearly the same level as Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestine.