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Biden announces U.S. will airdrop food aid into Gaza
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Bring in some USMC LCACs drive it right on up the beach.
And fucking dare Israel to.
Dare them to do what, the US supports them. The US isn't staring anyone down here, they're watching a genocide and selling the gas for the chambers.
Absolute fantasy that they're some saviours here, they enabled this and are getting enough push back to make the barest effort to appease critic in an election year.
That would change overnight if we had personel getting pasted by IDF while dropping off supplies.
One of the big differences between now and USS Liberty is by how much coverage these things get. It would be hard to keep it out of the media.
Besides which, LCACs have been used before in exactly this role. (They’re hovercraft designed to drop off tanks in a beach. IIRC, they were used in Africa?)
We had citizens in the war zone for a month until Egypt made a corridor. NPR was talking directly to them as they begged the US government to help them get out.
The US isn't going to stare down the IDF at all
Well… no.
But we should. Or at least, something… I dunno.
It's not like the US would retaliate.
Like when This happened and we did nothing
The uss liberty incident didn’t have the real time eyes that the public has in Gaza.
They won’t put troops on the ground because they don’t trust IDF to not fuck that up, but if they did…
there is zero way that it’d be as contained as the Liberty was (we’re all gonna know about it roughly five minutes after it happened,) and no way that Biden won’t be forced to respond- aggressively- when everystarts blasting videos of IDF missiles hitting American marines/sailors/soldiers/airforce.