• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    We heard similar excuses about Iraq (multiple times) and Afghanistan. We’re “helping them stand up so we can stand down” or “make war there so we don’t have to here”. It wasn’t that long ago that Hamid Karzai was giving speeches in Congress, and then later we found out he was a crook. In 1983 we were shaking hands with Saddam Hussein, because we were paying him to fight our enemies for us.

    And yet, we still lost 20 trillion dollars in those wars, because no one in this country learns from history.

    This is not our war. We should not be paying for it, not while people here can’t see a doctor.

    At the end of the day, you chickenhawks just do not care about the extent to which we neglect our own people in order to enrich warmongers.

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        11 months ago

        What’s moronic is how we already spend a trillion on war each year anyway, and now we’ve dumped 200 billion more into a war that isn’t even ours, and took it away from the IRS.

        So not only are we losing money that should be serving the American people in Ukraine, future losses are compounded because the IRS is underfunded too.

        What’s moronic is how you support this when the US is already making war in seven countries at once, with military bases in nearly every country in the world, and it’s still not enough for you even as you can see the vulgar extent to which our own people’s needs are neglected in order to serve it.