Russia Destroyed Mariupol in 2022. Now It Tries to Convince People That the City Is Better Than Ever
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Damn I remember these early days. Mariupol was so symbolic. So much unapologetic resistance and fighting to the bitterest end. Back then I was still counting days and told my baby daughter every day that "one day when you're older we will tell you about that war between your home countries which lasted [current number of] days". Hoping every day would be the last. I gave up after about a year. Just the name of the city throws me back to this time.
Holy shit, the same thing just happened to my favorite country by this orange asshole!
That's insane, you compare compeletely destroyed city of 400 000 to an awful presidency?
A presidency directly responsible for over a million otherwise preventable deaths in the US, and multiple millions worldwide through the destruction of programs like USAID.
If you want to focus on the effect on human lives.
Comparing incomparable things and stating that they are smiilar in any way is beyond regarded. Existential war and authoritharian(-ish) regime aren't the same. USAID, the CIA front one?
Way to go trying to paint over the very real impact USAID has had on health outcomes for people in developing countries. Trump's actions are also making more Ukrainians needlessly die every day so it's not like he is inconsequential even for this war.
USAID was a very real CIA front. Can you separate
art from the artistwhich programs were really beneficial, and which weren't? I can't and taking aid from possibly poisoned source isn't so great of an option. Obviously possibly bad help better than none and trump's motivation to close it isn't clear for me nor do I want to try to decipher what that person thought at the time.Yes the CIA did highly questionable shit with USAID, but the entire thing was not some shell company just speaking around black projects or whatever.
We have actual situations where USAID provided genuine harm reduction, or do you think the outbreaks in Africa where going to happen even if USAID didn't get cuts. More importantly knowing this administration what makes you sure that what's left of USAID is not the shell company portions the CIA uses?