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am_Unition  ·  1037 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Putin Has the U.S. Right Where He Wants It

You're not wrong, but at least the current president isn't extorting Ukraine with aid in exchange for manufacturing dirt on his political opponents, while also groveling to Putin, right?

Unlike Iraq or Afghanistan, the US made a commitment to Ukraine, namely to eventually admit it into NATO (thanks to the ABSOLUTELY GENIUS George W. Bush and his admin). Flawed though Ukraine's democratic system may be, the US wanted to promote and defend it in the face of Russian autocracy.

And then we were like "LOL nvm, and in fact, fuck our own democracy b/c it's gonna get in the way of these criminal levels of wealth inequality".

If you can't imagine me screaming "TELL ME I'M NOT A FASCIST OR I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU" into a camera, we should cam sometime. I'm funny! I'm so funny. Everyone is laughing at me. I mean 'with me'. With/* me.