A new EU financial package for Kyiv is at risk, as are negotiations for the embattled country to join the bloc. Meanwhile, in the United States, support for Ukraine is suffering
That feels contrived. Are we expected to form international policy based on social media buzz?
Edit to add: is not that the Biden administration is losing interest in supporting Ukraine, it’s just that half of Congress is taking orders from someone who wants Putin to win.
It’s also real fuckin obvious that a lot of this solical media sentiment is manufactured. Just today I was browsing reddit discussions and if you dig through a great deal of these account’s user history they’re obviously troll accounts stirring shit. Sometimes it’s insanely blatant because they know the vast majority of people will never look.
In the end, it doesn’t matter too much whether people support Ukraine. It’s whether their governments support Ukraine. I doubt pulling back support for Ukraine will be a popular election tactic, especially in Europe.
Half the electorate are of below average intelligence. A quarter are outright stupid. Tell them that the money spent on Ukraine will go to schools or the health service, and the morons will believe it. They’re easy prey for ‘populists’ who offer ‘easy’ solutions.
(Populist is a stupid word. What they promise may be popular, what they deliver is inevitably less popular than wiping your peehole with a dog turd)
But unlike in Russia, whether the western governments supports Ukraine is at least kind of dependent on wether the people support Ukraine. Pulling supports it might be a bad election tactic now (although it wasn’t in Slovakia), but will it be one next year or in 2025?
That feels contrived. Are we expected to form international policy based on social media buzz?
Edit to add: is not that the Biden administration is losing interest in supporting Ukraine, it’s just that half of Congress is taking orders from someone who wants Putin to win.
It’s also real fuckin obvious that a lot of this solical media sentiment is manufactured. Just today I was browsing reddit discussions and if you dig through a great deal of these account’s user history they’re obviously troll accounts stirring shit. Sometimes it’s insanely blatant because they know the vast majority of people will never look.
In the end, it doesn’t matter too much whether people support Ukraine. It’s whether their governments support Ukraine. I doubt pulling back support for Ukraine will be a popular election tactic, especially in Europe.
Half the electorate are of below average intelligence. A quarter are outright stupid. Tell them that the money spent on Ukraine will go to schools or the health service, and the morons will believe it. They’re easy prey for ‘populists’ who offer ‘easy’ solutions.
(Populist is a stupid word. What they promise may be popular, what they deliver is inevitably less popular than wiping your peehole with a dog turd)
It’s tiresome, but it is what it is.
“We send £350 million a week to the EU, let’s fund our NHS instead”
Narrator: they did not fund the NHS
But unlike in Russia, whether the western governments supports Ukraine is at least kind of dependent on wether the people support Ukraine. Pulling supports it might be a bad election tactic now (although it wasn’t in Slovakia), but will it be one next year or in 2025?