“If we quit Ukraine now, our credibility around the world will be greatly diminished. Who is going to believe that we will help defend Taiwan against a Chinese attack-using our own soldiers-if we don’t even have the staying power to give weapons to Ukraine? Xi won’t; Taiwanese won’t.” Michael McFaul

by themimeofthemollies

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  2. “…and it all happened under the Biden administration” is the quote Republicans are waiting for the proper time to say.

  3. NARRATOR: Here we see US House of Representatives Mike Johnson yodelling with his fingers in his ears saying: “But God has not told me that personally! LALLALALALALALALALAAAAAAAA!!! I CAN’T HEAR YOU!!!

  4. Putin has succeeded in duping Western conservatives into believing that conservatism is their common cause.

  5. The Kurds have more insight into our ‘support’ than they care to…

  6. Republicans are obviously trying to make the U.S look weak and unreliable because they can’t get their way.

  7. I keep asking myself, what’s the end game? Is it just that the US system is in such a chaos that it paralyses itself to the point of inaction? Do government officials in the US don’t understand the potential consequences? Are they truly scared of Putin’s “red lines”? I’m only hearing platitudes about support for Ukraine but the situation on the ground seems gridlocked.

  8. If Ukraine is abandoned Taiwan and South Korea should immediately begin development of their own nuclear weapons. South Korea has literally already talked about it.

  9. Like we quit on the Kurds and the ANA?

    This is what America does.

  10. And this would also mean that the west agrees to a country invading his neighbor to steal the land is ok! This is big Open doors to other dictators to do the same !

  11. That’s why the toxic internal politics is hurtful to America and allies. Republicans shouldn’t use domestic problem to block aid to allies in an emergent wartime situation.

  12. Credibility?

    The Afghans, Kurds and FSA would have something to say about that already.

  13. I have some strange feeling they won’t quit. I think the aid for this year will pass and then Trump will make a spin on the fact that US needs to appear strong on the world stage and offer even more aid cause “crooked biden” was too chicken shit to do it or something crazy like that. Might be optimistic, but one hint I got is that the only time Ukraine received lethal aid from the US before 2022 was in 2018 during the Trump administration. Also, in 2017 they cut all economic ties with the occupied Donbass areas, a move which I’m sure had the nod from the US. I guess we’ll have to wait and see, but I have a hard time believing the US industrial military complex would let such a great money grabbing opportunity slide

  14. We actually have a longstanding treaty with Taiwan to defend them, we had no such thing in place for Ukraine. But I agree the US is projecting weakness that will only embolden the autocrats.

  15. Agreed. Putler knows NATO will stop short based on fears of mutual destruction. Putler’s bluffing but who really knows.

  16. Also, critical point —-> Who will give up nuclear weapons ever again and who will not develop them (if they have the chance/budget) ever again?

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