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*sigh*. Why do I even bother. Oh right, because if I don't, other LIVs will listen to you and buy the bullshit you're selling to weaken Biden and strengthen Trump. So here we go.
Biden is caught between the rock of supporting Israel despite their atrocious behaviours in Gaza and the hard place of either leaving Israel open to being destroyed by other Middle Eastern nations, or allowing Russia to bring Israel into BRICS as part of the anti-USA counter-movement in Russia's and China's desired 'multi-polar' world (and read that to mean the USA is ground under heal and now Russia and China are the new USA, because that's exactly what it means).
Making the hard place even harder is the fact that if Biden were to cancel support for Israel tonight, I guaranfuckingtee you that by tomorrow, Russian-amplified Republican propaganda will be screaming to every person they can reach tomorrow the news that "Biden is an antisemitic puppet for Iran, Saudi Arabia, and every other Islamofascist nation in the Middle East and let innocent Jews die at the hands of the evil Hamas!!!" That could cost him more votes than not giving in to you lot of shitheads calling him a genocidal maniac and losing your votes.
It's NEVER as simple as you lot make it out to be. International politics is nasty, and sometimes, you don't get what you want. But Biden's willing to entertain threatening Israel with a reduction of aid. Trump won't be, and that's on top of every other horrible thing he's outright stated he's going to do. Your blathering over how Biden is killing Muslims over there is going to get a metric fuckton of Muslims, Gays, Minorities, and even Liberals killed here in this fucking country.
So, stupid person or Trump plant, it's STILL not clear why you should vote for anyone else than Biden unless you want Trump to win.
I don't know why you bother either. Maybe you are trying to convince yourself. I can't imagine the cognitive dissonance you are laboring under. You have to come up with wild theories that you pass off as some kind of sober 'realpolitik', which you paint as inevitable if Biden were to do literally anything to stop enabling Israel's "atrocious behaviours". The road to hell is littered with discarded principles. It blows my mind that you are angrier at people like me, than at the state of political leadership in the US. The fact that you can call me a "LIV", "stupid person" or "trump plant" rather than understand that mine is a valid point of view, that I've come to based on my own experiences leaves me wondering how you come to such conclusions. You don't know if or how I vote, and none of what I have said is even relevant to that. Anyway, I suspect your country isn't really a democracy either, so I guess ultimately neither of our opinions much matter.