Incorrect on USAID. The acronym is meant to imply it’s primarily focused on aid, but that’s an intentional mislead to deflect from their actual mission of espionage and regime change operations.

‘Surely enabling politicians to disobey the law couldn’t backfire.’

We were arming a genocide for over a year, in open violation of both domestic and international law.

If you’re just now noticing the crisis, you support genocide and share in the blame for how we got here.

I’m afraid you can’t vote or protest your way out of fascism. Only way out is to shoot.

It’s not a sovereign nation. The US installed a far-right regime in the 2014 Maiden Coup. And being in compliance with international law isn’t a thing where “mostly” cuts it.

So now that claiming a personal stake isn’t helping your argument, you’re dropping that?

https://lemmy.world/comment/14900993

Work on your reading comprehension.

I’m saying there are no good sides in this war.

Yeah. At the same time I can acknowledge that the puppet government in Ukraine and NATO spent years goading them into that war. Every foreign policy expert warned it was a bad idea. Even war criminal Kissinger said the US/NATO were leading us into a disastrous proxy war years before it happened.

That “other Russians” has me worried. Stinks of justification for violence against civilians.

I’ve said I’m not pro-Russia multiple times. The insistence by multiple comments here saying opposing Nazis in Ukraine is pro-Russia, says more about you than the people you’re accusing.

I come with sources. You come with name calling, and an iron cross. You think you’re advocating your position well?

There’s plenty of valid criticisms leveled against “the US” that have nothing to do with me or most of the people who live here, but rather a criticism of those in power. The folks who take those criticisms personally are usually speaking with a guilty conscience.

I’m accusing my own government of being league with Nazis now, and it didn’t take that much convincing. Any hint at pro-fascism will get a fierce rebuke of any US politician who dares dip their toes into that, and calls for them to be banned from public service. Those defending them tend to be secretly supportive of their fascism.

So what’s the deal with you? How much more Nazism would have to come out of the ruling class in your country to earn your opposition? Or is this a secret supporter kind of deal?

How do you know Elon is a Nazi?

You’re comfortable calling him a Nazi for the salute, but not convinced the people erecting monuments of Nazis might also be one themselves?

Ukraine is absolutely a victim. The US and NATO personnel responsible for toppling their government in the 2014 Maiden Coup should be tried and hanged. As well as those who have abused Ukraine for another proxy war with Russia.

Hamas was never a terrorist group. They are fighting an occupying force. By legal definition, they are a resistance group. A radical group, for sure, but the Israeli politicians created Hamas to prevent the secular Palestinian groups from achieving any peace agreements.

But I wouldn’t expect someone defending Nazis to understand that.

I believe Elon Musk throwing a Nazi salute is his open declaration that he is a Nazi. I believe Ukrainian politicians erecting monuments of Nazis is an open declaration that they are Nazis. I believe you proudly wearing Nazi symbols on your uniform is an open declaration that you are a Nazi.

Despite what every fascist man-child would like people to believe, it’s actually very, very easy to not look like or associate yourself with Nazism.

Nazi lives don’t matter.

You mistakenly believe my opposition to Nazis is support for Russia. It is not.

This is not team sports. This is real life.

No, I didn’t. Pointing out a Nazi regime being propped up by the US is not a declaration that all Ukrainians are Nazis. Seems a move of desperation on your part to attempt to distort it into that.

It was a concern long before the war. Ever since the Obama admin installed the far-right regime in the Maiden Coup, many people and organizations were raising alarm bells about the growing Nazi power in Ukraine. Especially when they started targeting ethnic Russians in the east.

My country isn’t sending billions in modern weaponry to Russia (at least as far as I’m aware). But they are sending them to Nazis in Ukraine, so I have something to say about it.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/217108-ukrainian-soldiers-seen-wearing-gear-displaying-nazi-symbols/

Now tell me how this is my fault. Did I make these soldiers do this? Did I personally force Ukrainian politicians to spend millions from the budget on Nazi monuments?

I’m simply anti-Nazi. The insistence that anyone opposing Nazis is pro-Russia is only coming from you in this conversation. Says a lot about your agenda.