“People think, increasingly it appears, that we shouldn’t be doing this. Well, let me start by saying we haven’t lost a single American in this war,” McConnell said. “Most of the money that we spend related to Ukraine is actually spent in the US, replenishing weapons, more modern weapons. So it’s actually employing people here and improving our own military for what may lie ahead.”

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[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

lol, thug ethics. AKA offensive realist geopolitics. The great do what they want and the small accept their fate.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

Jesus christ bro Realpolitik is all there is and all there has ever been. When you live on a planet where a bunch of gerotocratic psychopaths could push the big red button at any time you don't play games. You know America is the baddies, right?

[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

There is no ethics between capitalist states, there are only stratagems for how to exploit everyone else and not get exploited yourself.

Rhetoric about liberal world orders and rules and ethics are just propaganda to keep their own people complacent, like providing indulgences to themselves. They are wildly inconsistent and the self-named "good guys" carry out the absolute worst violence.