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Ukraine has great fighters and great spirit. But fighters and spirit can take you only that far. Without the Javelins and Himars, Ukraine would have collapsed in a matter of weeks. Without a doubt some of the tech that goes in those Javelins and Himars was invented at MIT.

This is not whataboutism. This is how you stop tyranny.

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Do you think the outcome of the war matters when evaluating the actions of the international community in Ukraine? For example, if millions of people die in Ukraine as a consequence of war that was only possible because NATO decided to arm Ukrainians, will it be justified, because they were fighting for democracy? What if Ukraine loses anyway?

The weapons you're talking about killed over a million people in tyrannical wars and terrorism. They are weapons of tyranny.

I understand that you'd like to live in a world where everyone loved each other and there are no weapons, and people walk around carrying roses and tulips.

That world does not exist. The world we are living in is a world where Putin exists. A world where a disarmed US and Western Europe would be conquered in less time than it would take you to sing Kumbaya.

I prefer to live in a world where MIT helps the US military complex come up with better missiles than a world where Putin kills millions of men, women and children in the name of "denazification".

I'm telling you that your argument if it was valid would justify the people at the Moscow Institute of Technology (MIT) making weapons for the Russian military because they were used by {choose country criminally invaded by the US} to defend themselves against invaders.

Your position is hypocritical unless you think that it's morally good to make weapons for Putin.

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