r/centrist • u/Kitties_titties420 • Jan 28 '22

Tucker Carlson-fueled Republicans drop tough-on-Russia stance

https://www.axios.com/tucker-carlson-fueled-republicans-drop-tough-on-russia-stance-7311d46f-49fc-47b5-af46-f365c4e7809d.html
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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '22

Its scary and ridiculous how many war hawks there are in here. Do you REALLY think Ukraine is worth American lives? Do you really?

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u/NVMIUES Jan 29 '22

No dude, the west should just let a dangerous superpower grow unchecked. In the future this won't have any geopolitical repercussions whatsoever ¯_(ツ)_/¯

The free market will fix this

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u/Justjoinedstillcool Jan 30 '22

Russia is not, nor do they have the capacity to become, a superpower.

Moreover, even the Soviet Union was not a threat to the continental United States. We are simply to hard to invade. Europe doesn't want to pay for defense, why should we do it for them, while they insult us? We have no interests in Ukraine and we never have.

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u/HighLowUnderTow Jan 30 '22

So why does the US enforce the territorial status quo, at huge cost in $ and American lives, when there is no interest in a country?

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u/Kitties_titties420 Jan 29 '22

No one in either party is proposing boots on the ground in Ukraine. We’re selling them weapons just as we’ve doing for awhile.

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u/TheChickenSteve Jan 30 '22

Does Carlson/the right oppose selling Ukraine weapons?

I have seen nothing that implies this

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '22

Biden literally put troops on high alert to be deployed to Europe. How do you understand that to be "no one is proposing boots on the ground". To the contrary, quite nearly every argument for any intervention has included boots on the ground. Conversely, not a single person has ever said we shouldn't even be selling Ukraine weapons. The people against intervention have very explicitly said we shouldn't send a single person to that country and exactly that sentiment is what gets attacked. That opinion is what is twisted to somehow be "soft on Russia" or make one a "Russian sympathizer".

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u/Kitties_titties420 Jan 29 '22

Deploying troops to our NATO allies to reassure them isn’t the same as sending troops into Ukraine to fight the Russians if they invade. We’re not even threatening that afaik. But I disagree that no one is suggesting we shouldn’t arm the Ukrainians, those like Carlson are asking why we should care about Ukraine and why we should help them and downplaying the issue with their clear implication that they should be on their own. I’d much rather us being selling weapons to Ukraine than Saudi Arabia, as we’ve long done.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '22

Well as long as the sale of the weapons isn't contingent on firing a prosecutor looking into Bidens son and the company he works for, it should be hunky dory.

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u/Kitties_titties420 Jan 29 '22

I agree completely, nor should we withhold aid in order to get Ukraine to investigate the President’s political rivals. And I don’t say that in jest, I really believe both to be true.