I love how their messaging is that the proxy war is good actually because it’s creating jobs. The obvious question here is whether it would be better to create jobs that actually make things people in US need like say housing or infrastructure as opposed to ones directed towards facilitating atrocities half way across the globe.
They’re saying the quiet part aloud. Imagine the gov publicly stating the Iraq war is for oil.
This is basically why Trump was so hated, he’d just blurt thus stuff out constantly.
The White House has been quietly urging lawmakers in both parties to sell the war efforts abroad as a potential economic boom at home.
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The change in sales pitch comes as polls show that Americans are growing more skeptical of the effort to help Ukraine — and continue to question Biden’s handling of the economy.
Wow. That’s a pretty big crack there. Can you imagine capitalist media printing that last year?
I believe this used to be certifiable Russian propaganda even a few months ago.
It still is if you ask lemmy.world and such.
the copes are becoming legendary now that mainstream western media is saying these things