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“Soon, there may be no one left even to use the weapons they give us,” said the volunteer, Yevhen Tuzov, “because all our Western partners want is for us to fight until the last Ukrainian.” (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Liberals did the same thing in Afghanistan and throughout the Middle East, they're no stranger to this strategy

"Hmm I wonder if training and arming these fundamentalist reactionary jihadists could ever backfire if they decide they hate the decadent and sinful West"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

if they decide they hate the decadent and sinful West

That wasn’t the motive, else they would have attacked Japan.

Plus, this is Arab media https://youtu.be/XcclXnr6UVU

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Correct it isn’t the real reason, it’s blowback for imperialism. The quotes were me being a stupid liberal, sorry if that wasn’t clear

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

No problem. My sarcasm detector was broken.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: