Ukraine aid vote: US House of Representatives approves critical $61bn package - BBC News
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The long-awaited vote comes as Ukrainian troops face a weapons shortage in the war against Russia.
  • faede
    26·
    2 months ago

    And all it required is total bipartisan agreement on killing Palestinians.

    • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.org
      8·
      2 months ago

      I went to school with a Palestinian woman when I first started at community college. Smart, friendly and aware of how the world viewed her. That we collectively assume these are terrorists because we’re told to is rather a regurgitation of the three-fifths problem.

    • mihor@lemmy.ml
      3·
      2 months ago

      Does it really surprise you, though? This ‘aid’ is all about killing many more Russians and Ukrainians just to weaken Russia and EU with prolonging this conflict. Another shameless act of the genocide-promoting USA.

  • ninjaphysics@beehaw.org
    13·
    2 months ago

    In an alternate timeline, the title to this post could refer to the amount of relief for student loan debt, or state grants for humanely addressing the homelessness, lack of healthcare accessibility, and climate crisis, for starters.

    • blindsight@beehaw.org
      131·
      2 months ago

      Sure, those are important, too. But it’s kinda a big deal to put a stop to the idea that military conquest is fine, so defending Ukraine (and potentially Taiwan) are important, too.

      Supporting Israel’s genocide is, however, reprehensible. And is just as bad (worse?) than what Russia is doing in Ukraine or that China is doing in Taiwan.

      China’s genocide against the Uyghurs gets a pass, politically, because they already control the territory. And what they’re doing in Hong Kong and want to do to Taiwan are terrible, but not in the same level

      • apotheotic(she/they)@beehaw.orgEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        Oh, absolutely. I’m not OP but I think they mean “in some alternate time line, Putin isn’t an evil piece of shit, and we can spend this 61B on these other issues”

        I read it as them lamenting the fact that Putin could just not wage war and we’d have all this extra ability to solve other issues.

      • Zagorath@aussie.zone
        2·
        2 months ago

        or that China is doing in Taiwan.

        ?

        Do you mean that they’re threatening to do to Taiwan? Because so far they’ve done nothing but posture. Or maybe you meant Hong Kong, which is certainly really, really bad, but I don’t think rises to nearly the same level as Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestine.

    • realitista@lemm.eeOP
      10·
      2 months ago

      None of those will mean much if Russia is allowed to conquer Europe. Every dollar we spend now will save us tens or hundreds later if we didn’t address the problem.

      • t3rmit3@beehaw.org
        3·
        2 months ago

        The same bill included billions for Israel. You can’t separate the 2; they’re literally the same funding package.

          • t3rmit3@beehaw.org
            3·
            2 months ago

            I never said you can’t; that’s your choice to make whether you can compartmentalize these from each other on an emotional level.

            But whether you are happy for Ukraine or not, on a factual level you cannot ignore that this bill’s passage is also furthering a genocide.

            Unless you are openly valuing the lives of Ukranians over the lives of Palestinians, I’m not sure you can say the bill’s passage is ultimately a good thing.

              • t3rmit3@beehaw.org
                1·
                2 months ago

                Ah, good to know. I heard Johnson was aiming to split them into separate bills, but hadn’t heard those versions were the ones passed. Most news outlets keep referring to them in the singular, which there was a bill that the Senate was building that was still unified.

  • JCPhoenix@beehaw.orgMEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    FYI on the rules:

    Do not editorialize titles. Preserve the original title when possible; edits for clarity are fine.

    Not removing the post, but just for next time, please.