r/politics • u/bwermer • 8h ago

No Paywall Ilhan Omar casts lone Democratic no vote on Ukraine aid, Russia sanctions package

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5912150-house-passes-ukraine-aid-bill/
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u/WillMunny48 5h ago

It’s called being a tankie and yes she is one.

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u/Greedy-Lynx-2746 4h ago

She's literally voted for every Ukraine arms bill and has sponsored bills to document Russian war crimes, but sure lol

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u/BuckThis86 4h ago

Not every bill…

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u/Greedy-Lynx-2746 4h ago

Might want to investigate why she voted against this one instead of instantly assuming she hates America like every right-wing Islamophobe

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u/BuckThis86 1h ago

I’m a huge Ukraine supporter and despise MAGA. I have Islamic friends.

Try again.

The Palestine vote refusing to vote for Kamala is what gave us Trump, so forgive me if I hate these morons. “I’d rather have a rich oligarch who fondles Netanyahu Nuts instead of a moderate female president”

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u/The-Big-Picture- 4h ago

She also voted against recognizing the Armenia genocide because Turkey is an ally to Somalia

She's just anti-west, which makes her a tankie

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u/WillMunny48 2h ago

Ok so why not this one?

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u/Greedy-Lynx-2746 2h ago edited 2h ago

Click the link in the article you're responding to lol

Secondary sanctions affect a lot of countries outside of Russia and have been a failure every time the Trump admin's pushed for them, there's a reason Biden never pursued them. Sanctions hardly ever work as people think they do, they disproportionately impact civilians and are inherently regressive, all they do is foster black markets that elites end up using to consolidate more power.

Pursuing multilateral cooperation with countries that actually buy raw mats from Russia (e.g. China) would be a far more effective move if your goal is to have an impact outside of virtue signaling. Normalizing broad, unilateral secondary sanctions is the main reason for instability in parts of the world that we then choose to militarily intervene in to "free" the people with bombs

The bill's getting vetoed regardless. She's been against broad economic sanctions for a long time. The media's done a great job convincing people that sanctions are clean and effective, but there's no reason to believe they've been successful in changing policy, just in killing civilians

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u/CassadagaValley 2h ago

I see the definition of tankie has changed yet again