• CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    They stopped the Russian advance on their own, long before any shipments of weapons arrived.

    The fact they’ve been able to hold out this long against a numerically superior foe is indeed due to massive support from other countries. But if they hadn’t held the line in the beginning, alone, there wouldn’t have been anyone to support.

    I won’t ever look down on them. They spilled the blood and cried the tears. All we did was throw them a bunch of surplus shit we didn’t need anymore, so that our MIC can sell us newer shit.

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      3 days ago

      I’m not in any way trying to “look down on” Ukraine. I am criticizing a statement because I believe it wasn’t an effective way to make an argument.

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        3 days ago

        Yes, you are trying to look down on Ukraine by focusing so hard on material suppllies over human lives.

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          3 days ago

          Don’t tell me what I’m trying to do. This is ridiculous. You can say it seemed like that’s what I was trying to do, or that you misunderstood me. But respectfully, fuck off with that.

          I know what I meant and what I said. Zelensky did not make an effective argument. That’s where the conversation ends. No looking down on anyone.

          I’m tired of not being able to voice even the slightest bit of a disagreement with zelensky just because his country was invaded.

          Every single time people just assume I’m anti Ukraine, because they can’t fathom the idea I would criticize something that I overall agree with. Its fucking ridiculous.