• jmcs
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    1 year ago

    How close is Russia or any other country with irredentist claims to the customers of US Arms companies? How many countries have mutual defense agreements with countries Russia threatened to invade? This is not just sales to the US government (which falls in the second category BTW).

    • CTHlurker [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      As we all know, the US was a paragon of peace prior to february 2022, and was not famously selling weapons to literally anyone who wanted to do a genocide, in particular the Saudis

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        1 year ago

        That’s whataboutism (and yes, that was a major source of demand for the Russian and Chinese arms industry).