• klieg2323@lemmy.piperservers.net
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    Why is it being done?

    This is how things start. Just like with weapons assistance, first it’s a little then it’s billions on the regular. This is an increase to an already way oversized presence of a foreign continents military in a delicate situation.

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      It’s not a delicate situation for Ukrainians, they’re defending their freedom. Accusing the US of escalation here when Russia violently invaded it’s peaceful neighbor?

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        I mean the first issue here is that you think the US government actually gives a shit about humanitarian things; they’re doing this because it’ll be beneficial to them, not out of the goodness of their heart

        you really need to understand that you can’t take the US at its word when it says it’s sending soldiers to another country for moral reasons

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          No country on the planet is any different. Just so happens the us is aligned with the global west in deciding to support Ukraine. That’s just how it is.

          At the same time NATO is consolidating membership, again, for geopolitical gain, not charity.

          Welcome to reality. Declaring the US a sane geopolitical operator is not the hot take you think it is.

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        Accusing the US of escalation here when Russia violently invaded it’s peaceful neighbor?

        Do you understand what escalation means? Escalation doesn’t have anything to do with who started it. It’s a relative action: it escalates from some state. The USA is committing troops where it previously hadn’t (or, more pedantically, is increasing the number of committed troops). This is escalation.

        You can complain about Russia starting this, but you should also complain about the USA escalating the situation.