• TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works
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    17 days ago

    What blatant contradiction? What priorities? They didn’t bail Greece out of a banking crisis 20 years ago, they have committed money to Ukraine now. I take it you find these 2 decisions to be incongruous? Why? You can’t explain yourself other than to say that you don’t think those 2 decisions can both be made without the decision maker being a hypocrite? Is this at least a correct interpretation of whatever you are trying to say?

    If so, ok? So what. You believe it’s hypocritical? Great. Others don’t. Support your position.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      17 days ago

      You have now reduced a critique of current policy to a childish whine of hypocrisy. Very well. If you insist on a primer. Supporting the position requires only the examination of a single budget cycle. Observe the funds allocated for military aid to a non-member state. Then observe the funds denied for energy subsidies, social stabilization, or infrastructure renewal within the member states themselves. The support is in the spreadsheet. The argument is in the allocation. The hypocrisy is in the rhetorical commitment to a social Europe that is perpetually deferred in favor of a fortress Europe.

      If you cannot discern an argument within the empirical evidence of fiscal choices, then no amount of explanation will penetrate the fog. You are demanding a philosophical treatise when the proof is in the accounting. It is not my fault you are reading the ledger without comprehension.