In just three days of fighting in the Middle East, more than 800 Patriot missiles were used — more than Ukraine has received throughout the entire Russian full-scale invasion, President Volodymyr Zelensky said during a press briefing on March 5.
The statement comes as tensions continue to escalate in the Middle East after the U.S., in a joint operation with Israel, carried out strikes on several Iranian cities on Feb. 28 that killed Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.
“Ukraine has never had this many missiles to repel attacks. More than 800 have been used over the past three days alone,” Zelensky said.
I won’t say you are wrong but I can still be pissed about this and expect/demand better while recognizing that there is a longstanding historic pattern of shitty and shortsighted behavior directed by incompetent and morally deficient corporate stooges against the better interests of the people they are supposedly representing.
I keep reminding myself: I’m not the empire.
The US did a bad job shaping you into what it needs most, an unthinking self-interested cur. We were supposed to repeat its myths without actually believing in them, apparently. Myths like “give us your huddled masses”, “we the people”, and the “rule of law”.
Pretty words. They should have been real. I find the more I disentangle myself from any national identity, the better I feel.