GRANADA, Spain - The European Union vowed steadfast support for Ukraine at a summit on Thursday but warned leaders — including Ukrainian President Volodmyr Zelensky — that it would not be able to fully fill any funding gap left by the United States.
      • athos77@kbin.social
        192·
        1 year ago

        Kevin McCarthy said that the two people he believes Russia owns are Dana Rohrabacher (?sp) and Donald Trump. And Tucker Carlson has been repeatedly promoted on Russian tv.

    • dirtdigger@lemmy.worldEnglish
      519·
      1 year ago

      That is an incredibly overgeneralized view of the situation. It’s precisely this kind of polarization, and viewing everything in terms of black and white, that Putin and allies are reveling in.

        • jimbolauski@lemmy.worldEnglish
          315·
          1 year ago

          Close minded, ignorant, and intolerant you are a trifecta.

          Biden along with many other liberals were staunch supporters of segregation, Many leaders and members in the black rights movement are antisemitic, segregated spaces on campuses are a modern liberal idea,

          Domestic terrorism has been used by liberal nutjobs for decades there were a bunch of liberal groups in 60s 70s and 80s that bombed federal buildings (weather underground, black Panthers, anarchists, …) It wasn’t until the 80s that right wing nut jobs started following the liberal terrorism playbook.

          I doubt you’ve ever had tolerance for any idea that you didn’t agree with.

            • jimbolauski@lemmy.worldEnglish
              310·
              1 year ago

              There’s no true Scotsman…

              Now you’ve moved the goalposts but you didn’t move them far enough. Your comrades killed a lot of people in the name of the greater good. The weather underground, SLA, NWLF, black Panthers… were responsible for hundreds of bombings in the 70s, that’s just one decade. The issue is your manifesto calls for violent overthrow of the government to start communism, and your comrades have been stupid enough to believe it.

              You’ve made yourself quite a useful idiot.

    • Hyperreality@kbin.social
      256·
      1 year ago

      We will likely end up having to support Ukraine on our own, if Trump’s re-elected. The US is no longer a reliable NATO ally.

      The problem is that it takes time to build weapons factories and existing stockpiles are low. We can barely keep up manufacturing what we’ve promised, let alone increase what we’re giving.

      Not like the Russians, who never throw anything away, and happily send their troops to the front with crap that the west would have scrapped decades ago. Obviously, that results in a lot of Russians dying or being maimed, but they don’t give a fuck about their own people.

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
    92·
    1 year ago

    It’s probably going to be fine. House Republicans have shit themselves in the foot so severely this will strengthen house Democrats.

    There’s enough in reserve for the interim.

    • athos77@kbin.social
      10·
      1 year ago

      The problem right now is that Ukraine is doing well with their offensive and has a bunch of momentum same great morale. And they had plans (and hopes) as to where each side’s armies would end up when winter came, when both sides would start digging in and Russia start laying in major defenses against the spring. Now all of those plans are in jeopardy.

      Also, Russia is going to see what kind of harm slowing US aid can cause Ukraine, and they’re going to redouble their efforts to manipulate both the Republican base and the Republican party, and to undermine the 2024 elections.

      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        I think they’ll be fine. This whole shutdown thing has blown up in the Republicans faces. 45 days from now we’ll be doing this dumb shit again and Democrats have no incentive waiver.

        This was a big wide crack that just opened up in the Republican house. Dems may be able to fully sunder the far right from just regular rightwings in the next fight.

  • Phanatik@kbin.social
    4·
    1 year ago

    This will be a dumb question so apologies but I’ve started to wonder this.

    If EU commits 100 odd billion to Ukraine, how does Ukraine receive that money? Are they essentially budgeting 100 billion for purchasing supplies and weapons? I assume Ukraine has a national bank to process these electronically.

    • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      There was an article posted here somewhere, talking about the civilian impact of losing money from the US. It basically said aid was keeping the economy going, including paying all public employees