Why must every faction of Progressives attack each other. Bernie Sanders is the most solid progressive I know of, but Code Pink wants to attack him because his Ukraine support isn't anti-war? I'm anti war. In particular I'm anti the war that Russia started by invading Ukraine. Anti war doesn't mean just letting the bad guy do whatever they want. If so, then anti-war is pro tyranny, because they always let the aggressor invade.

[–] WaltJRimmer@lemmy.world 69 points 1 year ago

One of the things that made me really like Sanders when he was first campaigning for president was when I looked up his record on American war and he had a voting record that tended to follow a quote from him that amounted to something like (paraphrasing), "War should be the last resort, but if a war is started, we need to see it fully see it through."

It's not like siding with Ukraine and getting into that conflict is supporting warfare. It's seeking to prevent warmongers from profiting off a senseless war. The idea that abandoning Ukraine to just be invaded and allowing Russia to get whatever they want by force is an, "Anti-war," stance is fucking absurd.

[–] flossdaily@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

The left has always had its share of morons.

Well-meaning morons, but morons nonetheless.

The issue is that the centrist and right wing media latch on to the narrative of these fringe weirdos and pretend that they represent the entirety of the left wing, even though there are WAY MORE lefties who find them disdainful.

[–] negativeyoda@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The left loves nothing more than to bicker over ideological purity.

The right falls in line

[–] flossdaily@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

False narrative.

We have less than a dozen morons here. They don't represent anyone but themselves.

Meanwhile we have entire factions of the Republican party at war with themselves from the Lincoln Project to the infighting in the House just this week.

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[–] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 67 points 1 year ago (4 children)

THAT'S the war they choose to protest?

[–] zephyreks@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Presumably, antiwar protestors protest every war. Basically, a return to WW2 America's policy of non-intervention.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

That's not the best way to sell it, me thinks lol

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 9 points 1 year ago (39 children)

Turns out being anti-war protesters means they're ANTI WAR.

What do you want them to do? Raise funds to send some missles over?

[–] Zorque@kbin.social 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess Ukraine could just use hopes and prayers to get Putin out of their front yard.

[–] Grimpen@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure that most of the solid anti-war protestors would expect Ukraine to just accept Russian territorial demands, up to and including complete annexation.

It turns into a reductio ad absurdum pretty quickly though. Putin didn't seem to return Crimea or the occupied regions of Donbass and Luhansk when asked politely. Not even when asked sternly. Indeed, it would seem that when all he faced was stern disapproval he decided to come back for more.

There is no doubt in my mind that supporting Ukraine now is stopping more Russian aggression later. Besides, Putin can end this war any time. Just go back to the original borders. The only reason not to is his yearning for Imperial glory. The irony being that many of these anti-war protestors would probably proclaim themselves anti-colonialists.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Putin can end this war any time. Just go back to the original borders.

Exactly.

If these anti-war protesters want to yell at the people who can stop the war, they need to protest at the Russian embassy.

[–] MCk3@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (27 children)

Then why are they protesting action that will end the war faster?

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[–] Wahots@pawb.social 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Peace in Ukraine? Tell that to all the civilians in Bucha and other places that have bullets in their back, got executed against buildings, or were tied up and shot in the back of the head.

The russians even execute their own men with sledgehammers for being POWs. It's like walking in to Sandy Hook mid-massacre and asking "Why can't we all just be friends?" until you catch some 5.56 like an idiot.

Ukraine should invite these people out to the front to see what it's like, and talk to the civilians in recently liberated areas. Have them talk to the survivors and families of Bucha.

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[–] yumcake@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Supporting Ukraine IS anti-war.

It's a war of aggression and the fastest and ONLY way to stop such a war is to stop the aggressor. Appeasement simply allows the aggressor to continue perpetuating or expanding their war aims.

The waste is trickling arms to them instead of surging it. We need decisive Ukrainian victory to spare the lives of Ukrainians and Russians from Putin's war.

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[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 9 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Eleven antiwar protesters were arrested Wednesday after they occupied the office of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Capitol Hill to demand the senator support efforts at diplomacy over sending further U.S. aid, such as weapons, to Ukraine.

Capitol Police arrested the 11 people inside the Dirksen Senate Office Building under a D.C. code that prohibits crowding, obstructing or incommoding, a Capitol Police spokesperson said.

The code is often cited when arresting protesters during peaceful planned acts of civil disobedience.

“Yes, Bernie should condemn the Russian invasion, but he should also be calling for a negotiated end to this brutal war,” Crystal Zevon, from Barnet, Vt., said in the news release.

A spokesperson for Sanders said the senator’s chief of staff, foreign policy adviser and Vermont state director met with Vermonters who were concerned about the war.

“The U.S. should support a just peace in Ukraine, based on the principles of territorial integrity, sovereignty, and international law,” Sanders wrote in the letter.

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