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[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Thats assuming the republicans and tankies WANT Putin's army destroyed. To them, this sounds like what a normal person would hear if we said: "We've used 5% of our defense budget to arm the IRA and 50% of Britain's army has been destroyed."

[–] [email protected] 57 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Now hold on, is funding the IRA on the table?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but only $6,500 per person, and it is only tax deductible if you don't give it to a guy named Roth.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Roth is a true homie, you take that back! His tax deductibleness is way better in the long run in most circumstances.

[–] vaultdweller013 8 points 11 months ago

The IRA deal sounds nice, can we add that to the budget?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's only Republican politicians who are in love with Russia. Everyone else still hates them due to Cold War propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Plenty of leftist-Tankies here on Lemmy's federation where I've had to explain that yes, Russia is a problem and what they're doing to Ukraine should be stopped.

The left is doing a good job preventing the Tankies from taking over their party however. Republicans are letting the far-right dictate politics and are likely going to (try to) cut Ukraine out of the budget this week. So the far-right is a bigger problem, if only because Republicans are failing to rise up and counter the threat from their own party.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

No, Republicans are in love with Putin. Putin hates Russia, Republican do the same.