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 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
The funny thing is the implication. These polls only show a comically small amount of Americans, who are usually pro or anti-whatever the narrative says to be pro or anti about. So the fact that even those polls are now showing a growing dislike of the Ukraine funding means that public support is in the single digits.
The White House has been quietly urging lawmakers in both parties to sell the war efforts abroad as a potential economic boom at home.
His phrase was directed at the campaign’s workers and intended as one of three messages for them to focus on. The others were “Change vs. more of the same” and “Don’t forget health care.”
Usians really have floppy disc for a memory…
In March 1991, days after the ground war in Kuwait, 90% of polled Americans approved of President Bush’s job performance.[1] But during the following year, Americans’ opinions turned sharply; 64% of polled Americans disapproved of Bush’s job performance in August 1992.
Hah
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Blood money basically.
The Biden Admin realizing at the last possible second that most Americans don’t see any sense in sending billions monthly to a war that doesn’t involve us while our own country is disintegrating.
