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McConnell on Ukraine proxy war: "We haven’t lost a single American in this war. Most of the money that we spend, is spent on replenishing weapons, so it’s actually employing people here."[paraphrased] (edition.cnn.com)
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Mitch McConell says the quiet part out loud.

Exact full quote from CNN:

“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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[-] Flinch@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago

Democracy is when you ban all left-leaning parties in your country and burn a hall full of trade unionists alive, and the more parties you ban and trade unionists you burn alive the more democratic you are. I don't see what's so hard for these tankies to get!!

[-] Commiejones@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

They didn't just ban the left-wing parties they also seized all their assets.

[-] VentraSqwal@links.dartboard.social 0 points 1 year ago

Plenty of communist countries ban all but one party, and some even suppress trade unions, and you guys are still willing to call them democratic.

[-] Flinch@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Interesting, do you have a source for this? Any particular countries you'd like to critique?

[-] VentraSqwal@links.dartboard.social 2 points 1 year ago

China, Cuba, Vietnam all allow only one political party. As for suppressing trade unions, there's the Jasic incident in China in 2018, where they tried to organize a union and strike and they fired all of them. Despite being Maoist in nature, they were detained, arrested, beaten, and disappeared by the police. And they generally have low rates of trade unions participation.

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