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[–] [email protected] 73 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Which is why it's so absolutely fucked up Biden went around Congress for it, especially since Congress would have approved it anyways.

The fact that Biden is fine doing this in the run up to 2024 and will do shit like this that risks trump winning...

Shows that Biden is the last fucking person we want running against trump.

I don't even think Hillary is stupid enough to do this, and she has the absolute worst instincts regarding elections of any politician in the last 50 years

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Doesn't matter who the president is, Israel is still going to get US (western) support. The alternative is an unwinnable war between Iran and Israel would kill millions of people. The US president cannot change these facts. Israel is going to get a pass here.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

We had to give hitler Poland, otherwise we'd have to refer to The Great War as something super depressing like World War 1....

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Iran again as an execuse to kill Palestinians kids..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Uh... How is Iran getting to Israel again?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Which is why it’s so absolutely fucked up Biden went around Congress for it, especially since Congress would have approved it anyways.

Which means now, none of the democrats who would have voted for it will have it on their record the next time an election comes around. Biden himself is fairly safe, but many of the Ds could have lost the next time around from that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Biden is choosing support of Israel over the future of the U.S.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago

Fuck this guy.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Genocide Joe does it again!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

As if any leading presidential candidates would bat an eye at doing this and/or more. Trump moved the US embassy to Jerusalem, against all advice, and inflamed tensions even more than they were at the time.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

I become increasingly certain this fucker arranged this "war" so he wasn't facing a corruption court. He's been moving heaven and earth to change the judicial system in order to avoid it, it's entirely believable he would pull a false-flag operation to achieve the same ends. He knows the minute the fighting stops, he's in a jail cell.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How the hell did we end up being Israel's bitch? What are we getting it out of it?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

An ally in the middle east, because oil 🛢️ 🌍

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Israel doesn't have oil. Don't we have Saudi arabi and Qatar for that?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Israel's neighbours have oil, and Israel lets the US keep their guns etc there.

So yes, not directly about oil -- more like 'national security' -- but that ultimately (and increasingly ironically) amounts to oil.