AOC (and the rest of The Squad) voted against seizing the assets of Russian oligarchs. After receiving some criticism for her vote she put out a statement explaining her reasoning.
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I find this to be a very compelling argument. Obviously there is a lot of strong emotional energy to take immediate action on issues like this, but personally I find her argument to be principled and convincing.
Please discuss.
THAT PART of her argument WAS indeed very compelling however it was not her entire argument.
She and the rest of her "squad" have from time to time also introduced a raft of arguments about "NATO expansion" being the cause OF Putin's invasion, thus she is channeling a kind of "Max Blumenthal/Frank-Walter Steinmeier/Voldemort/anti-imperialist" argument to left-splain why Russia is invading Ukraine.
Too many on the left have swallowed Putin's propaganda and he has played the Far Left and alt-Left to the point where they're almost echoing Putin's exact speeches verbatim, and while "The Squad" stopped short of adopting Putin's label of Ukrainians as "nazis", that Russian boilerplate needs no introduction on the alt-Left.
I'm still looking for the MILLIONS OF NAZIS in Ukraine and so far I just see a bunch of young and strong knuckleheads who
were probably impressed by the Hugo Boss uniforms and the scary looking tattoos.
We have more actual card carrying Nazis in Anaheim California than four hundred Azov battalions put together.
Here, in OUR military, they seem a lot more serious about playing Nazi. The Pentagon had to fight like hell to force out the hardcore ones who are all tatted up and who were members of clandestine paramilitary militias
prior to joining up for Uncle Sam.
But I could be wrong, perhaps the Azov wing of Ukraine's military is indeed rife with a few thousand misguided knuckleheads who have yet to get the memo.
But they don't look like twenty year old Ukrainian college coeds or eighty year old grandmothers, which is what's littering the streets of Bucha today,
and not a single Nazi tat
on any of them so far.
AOC and her squad seemed to have missed the point on Putin and while she's not a Tulsi Gabbard or a Jill Stein, I bet she can see them both from where she stands.
And it has broken my admiration for her big time.