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Biden under pressure to act amid new fears of ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Gaza
(www.aljazeera.com)
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Calm down, everyone! Biden is already acting. He's sending weapons to Israel as fast as he can.
But this is fine because Trump would send them even faster and make the children even more dead. All hail the glorious two party system.
The Abraham Accords is often cited as an escalation towards the situation we are now in that it tried to politically isolate Hamas: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Accords
Maybe the orange man wouldn't make a difference on the arms front, but he is really good at planting seeds for conflict.
This is honestly what defeating an insurrection should feel like. Comparing obvious differences in administration and policy. Yep, i only see escalation and incitement on the alternative side of the coin. ""Set up nukes outside of Iran?"" yeah we dodged a huge bullet.
Biden has the policy of expanding the shameful Abraham Accords
Were you asleep from 2015 to 2020? He'd definitely be at least as bad on this issue, and vastly worse on every other one.
Yeah I know. Perhaps you missed my point
Source? Last I heard, trump got us OUT of a war that Biden oversaw the continuance of for 8 years. How is trump somehow a warmonger now? Is there a potential grift available for him to do or something?
This is just something "Vote blue no matter who" types imply when they talk about this. I wasn't actually making this point as such.
Lol how did that go?
For this issue, there's the stuff he did during his term as mentioned above, and as usual quoting him is enough:
So you're right. Since a lot of people are dying he thinks we should "let it play out," and also incidentally said he wouldn't allow Gazan refugees in the US and previously released a "peace plan" that matched Netanyahu's.
So my source is the continued, ill-considered and idiotic behaviour of this egotistical man child and the words that spew from his mouth on a daily basis. The fact that this is the best the republicans can do is truly embarrassing
I too would also like to mention the man paints his face orange and like... you all just ok with that. Wtf people?
I don't have to fuck him, why should I care?
Bitch if your coworker started showing up with orange face paint everyday you would talk so much shit. Don't lie.
We do talk shit. Have you seen a late show in the last 8 years? But it's pretty irrelevant to being president, so it'd be dumb to focus 9n that rather than the 30k other things.
You asked me why should you care. Thats why you should care because I am not going to stop talking shit about the racist fascist orange shit stain. He deserves no such dignity.
I have no illusions as to him being a good president. But the Israel issue is significant enough that he's worth it. And literally just saying he would stop interfering in it makes him a MAJOR upgrade over the current genocider-in-chief.
Stop interfering = let the genocide continue. So no I wouldn't call it a major upgrade even on this issue. It's going from being the guy cheering for the bully to one silently standing by as he stomps on a defenceless victim's head.
And for every other issue Trump is anywhere from embarrassingly stupid to outright scary. Much worse than Biden.
The problem is the two party system, because both of these options are ultimately fucking dog shit.
I am perfectly fine with my country doing nothing more than providing military support only as requested by the rest of the UN, and otherwise doing nothing. Ideally that would be America's role in every armed conflict. The reason they're even able to do a genocide is having American backup and weapons. End that and the genocide is over. Iran could flatten Israel in a day if Israel didn't have the threat of the US military behind them.
There is no other issue. America is helping to commit a genocide. Tax rates, or hell even attempted coups, mean nothing in comparison.
Yeah fair enough. I feel like they could still do a lot of damage if the US ended support, but I totally get your perspective and kind of agree actually.
America sliding into fascism is not quite worth it for me though, especially because I don't trust Trump to remain consistent on this issue either. Biden needs to be forcefully pushed to change tack, I guess by the poll numbers and internal protests
There is nothing we can do to make Biden stop supporting genocide other than vote him out. Yeah trump might also do it, but he didn't the first time. And certainly the guy who might is better than the guy who definitely will.
The Doha accords were a gift to the Taliban, they knew the US wanted out, Trump said we wanted out, and he set the stage for an untenable self-governance in Afghanistan
Biden deserves plenty of blame for how the inevitable went down and not ensuring interpreters/collaborators were evacuated , but Trump absolutely set up the fall of Afghanistan. The Afghan papers made clear the ANA were not a viable force, but Biden should have had contingencies ready
He did say, loud and proud, that he's zionist...
Sauce for the lazy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jov9jxRecFc