• xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    20
    ·
    8 months ago

    Ukraine doesn’t have the luxury of taking a moral stance right now - your last paragraph is key, to ensure the survival of their nation Zelensky would pay any lip service because it’s far less important than stopping the bleeding.

    • xantoxis@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      12
      ·
      8 months ago

      Why does he have to take a stance at all? Just shut up about Israel and fight your war.

      • orgrinrt@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        7 months ago

        I’m guessing the situation being as dire as it is, as reported lately, they are desperate to use any bit of rhetoric or leverage they can. Being silent doesn’t really help securing the support they so acutely need. Maybe this doesn’t either, but at least they remain in the news cycles around the globe, which helps still.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      8 months ago

      The Global South will hardly believe these guys are honest and deserving of help when they hear this kind of two-standards talk that judges quite differently Israel from the rest.

      The Global South matters to Ukraine because of things like sanctions on Russia and not sending Russia the stuff they need to make more weapons.

      Zelensky just lost a really good chance at saying nothing at all and staying clean on this instead of wading into the shit and getting covered in it.