Trump will give Israel ‘blank check’ which may mean all-out war with Iran, says ex-CIA chief
Summary
Former CIA Director Leon Panetta warned that Trump’s return to the White House could embolden Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, giving him a "blank check" in the Middle East and increasing the risk of war with Iran.
Panetta expressed concern that Trump would support Netanyahu's aggressive stance against Iran without restraint, potentially worsening regional instability.
Panetta also predicted Trump might allow Russia to retain parts of Ukraine if he returns to office, though he doubted Trump’s negotiation skills.
He criticized Trump’s approach to foreign policy, suggesting Trump would be inclined to "capitulate" to authoritarian leaders, which may not sit well with some Republicans.
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Congratulations, idealists. You definitely stopped the genocide by refusing to vote for Harris and urging others to do likewise. A+ job.
Oh he'll help end the genocide alright. You can't genocide a people that's already wiped off the planet.
ukraine is gonna get 'helped' similarly. putin will have a free pass once the u.s. aid stops. i don't think the other nato countries or the e.u. can cover that, especially long-term.
I hope as soon as US aid stops, they launch everything they have at major Russian cities.
right? they're holding back for conditional western aid. as soon as the aid ends those conditions mean nothing.
Why would this be different from right now? If they could feasibly end the war they way, they absolutely would, and id absolutely condone it.
Because as far as I know Ukrain hasn't been committing war crimes with western supplied arms.
I've always said they could ignore all conditions by saying there's Hamas tunnels under the Kremlin.
I'm pretty sure it's the most documented war of all time by now, we'd know. The Israeli war is much younger and it was readily apparent when the war crimes started. I'm pretty sure that's why a lot of countries like to go dark from the internet when they kick up their bullshit.
I think the EU will change. If Ukraine falls, territory grabs from Poland, Finland and Hungary are next. Those are actually EU constituents.
Hungary will not leave the EU btw. Orbán's days are numbered, what with the Tisza overflowing.
Y'all are thinking pretty small, Putin won't just have a free pass about us aid, Putin has a pass to our entire structure. Their military might be shit but their Intel apparatus is not at all.
yeah shame that. maybe kamala should of thought about that before committing herself to a genocide joe allowed.
I truly cannot grasp how uninformed one has to be to claim to be for Palestinians but think helping Trump's odds was strategically better. Such profound ignorance is on par with maga, themselves.
On another note I want absolutely nothing to do with Mehdi Hasan. I supported him for quite some time but he got tunnel vision to such a degree he ended up thinking completely irrationally and contributing to the problem. He's venturing into Jill Stein territory for me.
thats okay, you just need to look at harris and the dnc for your answers. apparently streams of articles, local representatives speaking up, members of the diplomatic core speaking out and they amazing decided that 'yes, genocide is the answer to our electoral struggles'
it is definitely baffling in a tight race tossing 25 electoral points in the trash could be construed as a 'good decision for palestinians.' but here we are and thats what they did.
Now the world is going to suffer because of their hubris. enjoy. maybe next time tell your candidate to get a backbone to do the right thing and you need to grasp human nature.
go check out democracynow gaza section. maybe you can get some perspective on exactly how kamala/biden and general media have been gaslighting you. Everytime a hamas leader was murdered and harris would say 'now we can achieve a ceasefire' she was gaslighting you. a ceasefire with the release of hostages had been agreed to by hamas for months since may. Every time she said she would work towards a ceasefire, she was gaslighting you.
the palestinians were fucked no matter who won.
But harris had the option to potentially win if she was willing to:
but noooo. its the voters fault for harris being absolutely dog shit both morally and policy wise.
Binary choice.
Either Trump or Harris would win.
Harris better on literally every issue from climate change and LGBTQ+ rights and Women's rights, to Ukraine and yes even marginally Gaza, itself.
We had a choice to help one or the other, and we chose the guy who is worse on every one of these issues. The GOP and Putin thank you for your service.
At the end of the day, these uncommitted voters contributed to the problem because they lacked the capacity to think strategically in their voting and lacking comprehension of the FPTP voting system we have. They seem to lack the fundamental understanding that there was a competing electoral group that Harris needed to obtain, like the large Jewish community in these key battleground states like Pennsylvania. Damned if she did; damned if she didn't.
Golly, it's almost like there's a reason why Musk dumped $75 million dollars in attack ads with directly opposite messages, targeting both Muslim and Jewish communities in Pennsylvania at the same time? Were you aware of this? Evidently not.
So while Harris pushed for more aid into Gaza, sought a two-state solution, sought a permanent ceasefire, tell me... What did Trump promise? Oh yeah... "Finish the job." Again, good luck.
No, I'm about 10 years ahead of you with the Democracy Now and 3rd party crap. I've been down that road long ago, my friend. Hopefully one day you'll wise up, too.
Your argument — hiding behind a counter-factual impossible to prove — is an old one. Cap it off with a Post Hoc fallacy, why don't ya?
Educate yourself on the basic fallacies, and perhaps you'll gain the prerequisite critical-thinking skills to have a good faith discussion.
(But boy, Palestinians are going to be ever so grateful for the uncommitted vote for the next 4+ years, LOL)
"They" weren't persons holding "real" opinions, I'm afraid. Just as the russians calling for "russophobia" 2 months prior to the special genocidal operation
I totally understand that sentiment, being myself someone who voted for Harris as the better candidate, but I think the results show it wasn't abstaining anti-genocide voters who caused her shortfall. Millions of people who voted blue in 2020 didn't vote or in many cases actually voted red on Tuesday, way more than the few pro-Palestine abstainers likely amount to. And I doubt many ppl who care about Palestine would've switched and voted for Trump.
As much as I'd love a simple, singular group to blame for Tuesday's horrible result, it's way too early and multifaceted of an issue to do so imo. Depressingly, I think it's moreso just uninformed voters who thought that since inflation wasn't as bad from 2016-2019 that Trump would be better for consumer prices, and they didn't really think about it any harder than that.
You misunderstand. I'm blaming everyone who didn't vote for whatever reason. It was Israel for a large number of them and this story involves that, so I am pointing the finger at them in this case.
But I don't care why someone didn't vote. They chose to accept the possibility that they would be helping a fascist, genocidal dictator get into office by doing nothing to oppose him. Whatever reason they had was a bad one.
Oh gotcha yep totally agree
Voters owe themselves something. But instead they decided to crash the economy, end democracy and start more genocides. Because Kamala ran a shitty campaign.
I love this idea that it's all one person's fault. I'm sure you'll still blame her when Trump's cops march you into a boxcar.
"It's not my fault, I didn't vote for Harris and allowed the U.S. to get taken over by a fascist dictator who is committing genocides. It's her fault for making me not vote for her because of genocide!" Scream it to the guards, I'm sure they'll be very sympathetic.
Of course, you could be a cishet Christian man, in which case, enjoy your privilege.
…for now
I should have added 'rich.'
Please read my post before you reply.
Yep the Dems are accountable for nothing, but peaple who refused to vote for genociders are accountable for Trump's action sure. Keep blindly following your party.
Maybe there's plenty of accountability to go around and you deserve some too.
Also, please tell me which party is my party. I would like to know which political party I am registered with, please. With evidence, of course. Unless you're trolling a moderator.
I am accountable for what ? For what the new president might do (when i clearly didn't vote for him). You re litteraly criticising peaple for not voting Harris, stop the Whataboutisme. "Unless you’re trolling a moderator" LOL
Exactly.
Now you have one more chance to tell me what political party I am registered with and I expect evidence. Trolling is not allowed here.
The alternative is to admit you don't actually know and just assumed I was a member of the Democratic party. Then you were just being uncivil, but I will let that go.
What specifically did I do? Please lay it out with evidence.
Or is this more trolling?
Okay my man look at the margins. The anti-genocide people could've all voted and it wouldn't have flipped a single state outside of Michigan. And the thing is: Harris lost before Michigan even finished counting. So yeah, you're barking up the wrong tree here.
See, if you'd said the anti-genocide people who protest voted could've all voted for Harris, you might've had a point.
But turnout in this election for the Democratic candidate was significantly decreased, and an uncertain number of those were anti-genocide.
Abstaining gave Trump the presidency. Abstaining for what reason varies, but Gaza was clearly an issue for some to stay home.
This is one of the excuses they are giving rather than accept any culpability whatsoever. "Even if we voted for Harris, Trump would still have won."
And in the same breath, they'll say it's the Dems fault for supporting genocide.
"Or votes wouldn't have made a difference in the outcome, but Dems lost because they didn't do the thing that would have supposedly gotten our vote"
Yep.
That's exactly what's happening.
Because you're being intentionally dense. their personal votes are what they are talking about. These are the people who fucking showed up and voted regardless of the shit campaign.
The genocide definitely cost harris Wisconsin and Michigan. 25 points right there.
For example: My state harris won, my vote third party jill, would have in no way changed the outcome here. As I've been informing everyone for two months. But harris is missing 20 million votes biden received. Where are they?
Why did these individuals not vote for harris?
maybe because shes been gaslighting america on live tv for years during the biden admin? Over biden's mental acuity, over what was going on in gaza etc.
Maybe because she didn't put forward a single decent economic policy to counter the absolutely shit perception of the biden admin?
Maybe, just maybe, people were so disgusted with her continued support of a genocide they fucking stayed home instead of voting for a gaslighting trash heap of a campaign?
You dweebs like to crow about the electorate having short memories. but the reality is that they actually have long memories and you can't do the shit biden and harris have done and expect people to show up for you without a huge fucking carrot.
And you wouldn't even contemplate that 'hey the arabs just want us to stop murdering their friends and family. huh. maybe we should do that?'
So yes, continue thinking those like myself are at fault. I'm fine with your scorn. I don't particularly care if you dislike me. Just remember that your support for a genocide just cost you multiple election cycles in Michigan and Wisconsin. THAT community is unlikely to forget what you, biden, harris, and the DNC did to them.
Now if anyone wants resources to look into anything I've said here and are open to working towards replacing the DNC feel free to reach out. always happy to connect with people who actually give a shit.
Culpability for what? Nothing is forcing Biden and Harris to support such atrocities. Nothing forced them to abandon the left and the working class and cater to the right at every opportunity. If you want to point fingers, why don't you start with the actual candidate leading the campaign, who consciously made all these decisions, and the party leaders backing her?
Was 2016 not enough of a wakeup call? Was the near loss in 2020 not a wakeup call? Here we are in 2024, repeating the same old song and dance, and people are still digging their heels in thinking that moving further and further right is a winning strategy for the Democrats and it's everyone else's fault when it doesn't work again and again and again.
Maybe the party leadership will finally pull their heads out of their asses after this, but I won't hold my breath. They'll probably pick someone like Joe Manchin to run in 2028 and then wonder where it all went wrong once again when he loses to someone like Ted Cruz or Ron DeSantis.
Maybe handing all three branches of a nuclear power to literal fascists?
You really don't grasp what has has transpired here do you? You think that those of us who have been ringing the alarms are just overreacting and it's going to be business as usual?
I did that? The Supreme Court was already under control of the fascists because the DNC rolled over and allowed the Republicans to take the nomination away from Obama a year before the election. They again rolled over and allowed Trump to nominate yet another justice weeks before the election. In my district we voted in a blue congresswoman and had no senators on the ballot. Are these losses around the rest of the country my fault, too, or the fault of the people running those campaigns?
How exactly were you ringing the alarm bells? By telling everyone to vote for Biden and then Harris? By telling everyone the obvious about what a piece of shit Trump is? How did that work out for us?
I've been ringing the alarm bells about how terrible the Dems have been performing and all the shitty policy they've been supporting (genocide, the rich, the right) and got so much pushback. I've been called a shill, a republican in disguise, an idiot, and everything else under the sun and look how things turned out for us. You supported a losing strategy from a party full of neoliberals that doesn't give two shits about you or anyone else and now you want to point fingers. As I said before, how could it not be more clear after losing or nearly losing this many elections in a row that the DNC and their leadership is the problem?
Culpability for you supporting the atrocities.
That's right, you. By helping get Trump into office since you and others refused to "vote for genocide," you have let the guy who told Netanyahu to "finish the job" on national TV to take office. The same guy who is going to start more genocides- of brown and queer people- in the U.S.
That is your fault because you were too ideologically self-righteous to do anything about it.
I don't want to hear any American voter who didn't vote for Harris to claim anything about being anti-genocide. Because it's a fucking lie. You can lie to yourself all you want, but if you lie about that to me, I'm calling you out.
Yes, and I'm saying that Gaza wasn't an issue for enough people to matter. Harris needed Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan to win, and while I can see pro-Palestinian votes swinging Michigan I simply doubt there were enough of them in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to matter. If you think otherwise, then you have more faith in the American people than me I guess.
This not to mention down-ballot congressional races.
Gave them everything they fucking wanted. This country is cooked.
The fact that the person representing the choice to act is also giving a WTF, dude face is hilarious.
The outcome of the election doesn’t change the fact that 18% of voters wasted their vote on a Russian plant.
In the end it didn’t matter but it does matter that they knew the election was close and their protest vote could’ve very well been the deciding factor. They decided to make the statement despite the risk of having someone much worse winning. Now, go plead your cause to Trump.
Please give me the numbers of these in every swing state along with how they were determined.
There is no way for you, or anyone, to know how many people abstained from voting over any one issue, 🤡
Michigan and Wisconsin, two states representing 25 pts. If you don't look at the fucking margins in a neck and neck race, yeah you fucking lose. Harris failed to make any changes to policy throughout the campaign despite being underwater the entire fucking time.
This loss is entirely on her and the DNC.
Then he will be held to the same account Harris was.
What are you even talking about? Harris is the Vice President. Exactly what do you think her job responsibilities and powers are?
She said she would not have changed a single decision that was made during the Biden administration. Biden said that she was in 100% agreement with every decision made. Which means she agreed to the current conditions
I really hope you find solace in the idea that Harris and Trump would be equally bad for the world as Trump throws America into the garbage and tries to take the planet with it.
Do you have any idea how much CO2 biden's proxy wars have dumped into the atmosphere? How many chip manufacturers were given environmental exemptions for chip manufacturing? The actions from Democrats mirror the actions from Republicans. The only difference is that Republicans say all of those things out loud
Again, I hope you find solace in the idea that Trump and Harris are exactly the same when things get really awful. I'm sure you'll feel much better about yourself not voting for her.
Block him, Squid. He's doing this in every thread and you need to put this energy towards more important things.
I find solace in not allowing the continued rightward march of Democrats. Liberals are 100% to blame for our current conditions for never holding their own people accountable. At their current pace the DNC will be on par with people like McConnell in a few years.
Dude, you really need to just move on from Biden and Kamala. They lost and aren’t going to be in office much longer. Trump is the threat.
And once he takes office, he will get the same type of scrutiny from me that Biden and Harris has. until January 20th the focus is on Biden and Harris.
Tell us you don't know what a VP does without telling us you don't know what a VP does.
Stoppig the genocide... Who started it?
Israel. What's your point?
Cool so Trump won't be responsible for stopping the genocide either. Everything falls on Israel.
No shit. That has nothing to do with this discussion.
Why did you bring up the genocide if you do not believe the American president has any responsibility for it? Biden has funded 70% of the cost of the genocide.
Gosh I don't know, maybe because a huge number of people decided to allow in a rapist fascist dictator who is going to conduct his own two genocides domestically, thinking their protest vote or their protest abstention would totally teach the Democrats a lesson regarding Israel?
Have you spent the week in a cave?
We didn't allow anything. harris failed to win our votes. direct your ire correctly. I've been telling you this for 2 months. you're still failing at basic reasoning on how voting works.
Palestinians are dead either way unless harris committed to stopping israel. and she wouldn't. she threw out the 25 electoral points Michigian and Wisconsin represent as a result. She failed to run a campaign on policies that would win her the election.
We don't owe you dweebs anything. You repeatedly fail to realize that people won't help you when you don't help them. and the DNC hasn't done shit for the working class or the arab community and they just fucking burnt a bridge that'll likely be impossible to rebuild.
You want peoples support for ukraine, LGBT, etc? learn you need to build connections with others to get support. esp when you're pet projects are also minority groups.
And a reminder: your jews for peace work is completely ineffectual when it comes to the president/congress supplying arms to israel. most of your work has ridden on the coattails of arab groups pushing their initiatives. So while stopping the settlement funding is a grand idea; by the time you managed to do it the palestinians would have already been dead or gone.
What did you do to stop the genocide?
Waiiiiit, are you saying that not voting Kamala didn't magically stop the genocide in Gaza?????
That it only accelerates it, like I and other people have been saying for months????
WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING?!
I got banned from a community saying this as calmly as possible XD Idk i feel like theses tankies who were overwhelmingly hostile are either shills or hypocrits who just want to hurt the big bad capitalist, short and long term consequences be damned. (Tankies=/=Leftists just a reminder)
Well now that the election is lost, the Democrats could make true on their claim they would seriously end this, but had to wait until after the election...
I doubt they will, because every of their action has shown to be equally strong genocide supporters. But we should see the next days, as Israel still doesnt let anywhere close to 350 Trucks into Gaza, leave alone any into the north of Gaza. The ultimatum is running out.
Also as weapons deliverys to Israel have been and are illegal anyways under US law, now would be a great chance to get every Republican and Democrat who voted for them or approved them as part of the administration into jail and in front of a court.
Oh wait, they wont because breaking the law, which unsurprisingly helped the convicted felon win, was worth it, so genocide could be further supportet.
It's not like the Republican house thwarted all of Biden's efforts either
That is true. Which is why it doesn't matter if the bombs given to Israel are red or blue.
However now Democrats lost over genocide. Now AIPAC cannot play both parties anymore by making blind support for Israel the deciding factor. The Democrats lost because of Israel. Now they need to purge the Zionists and rebrand as the non genocide party, if they want to win moving on. This locks AIPAC in as being only in support of the Republicans, which limits their political influence.
If it wasn't for Harris/Biden loss, there was no hope for Palestinians, or any other people in West Asia in regards to US policy. Now there is a chance that one side of US policy will change.
It is not the only reason. In swing states like Michigan it seems to have been the deciding factor.
https://www.newsweek.com/jill-stein-wins-22-vote-dearborn-gaza-stings-harris-network-1979861
However i doubt that even with a decent campaign of addressing the economic concerns of normal people the Democrats could have hacked it. With the steadfast support for Israel they have shown everyone whose ancestry is somewhere south of the European alps, that they are second grade people, easily dispensable if necessary.
I was so pissed at Israel and Israeli's for the genocide we're watching. Then as an American I looked in the mirror and saw my tax dollars providing the bombs for the genocide and realized I'm as responsible as the citizens of Israel. Now I'm just disgusted by our nation, the state of the world and my complicity in that state
Good for you!
Now you can be pissed our tax dollars will be going to support the genocides of Palestine, and Ukraine! Others too I'm sure!
But mostly: They'll support the billionaire oligarch class, Elon thanks you for your support by entering you in a lottery with pre-selected winners.
They could send our entire fucking arsenal to Ukraine. I'd be for that.
We made a deal in the budapest memorandum: Ukraine gave up their nukes in exchange for a guarantee of the borders.
We can just give them back, or nukes of equivalent capability.
I'm joking, Ukraine were the brains of the Soviet Union, without them it's just the world's largest open-air fetal alcohol syndrome seminar.
Ukraine can rebuild their nuclear program in months, and I ... need to go find somewhere to donate to that cause.
Yep, running two pro-genocide candidates did absolutely nothing to stop the genocide.
Are you saying Kamala and Biden had the power to stop the genocide in Gaza but chose not to as a bargaining chip with Muslims?
Good job putting words in my mouth, .ml
I said Trump would make the genocide worse. Which he will.
My guess is that both pro-genocide candidates would make the genocide worse.
The difference in degree is a matter of speculative opinion.
And Trump will do genocide at home and in ukraine as well. How wonderful, instead of only one you get 3.
Trump voters: "Trump is the most peaceful president ever. We need to bring the defence spending to Ukraine home. America first".
Trump is elected and inevitably drags the US into yet another war in in the Middle East
Trump voters: Pikachu face
Nah. Just kidding about that last part. It was all just empty rhetoric to justify the grift and looting all the way down as the country burns to the ground in the background.
Trump is very isolationist. I'd be quite surprised if he committed to any conflict directly. Funding Israel to fight for him however...
I find it odd when someone says Trump is this or Trump is that as if he's consistent on anything. His absurd narcissism is the only consistent thing about him. You can bet your ass he would drag us into a war if it would stroke his ego in some way.
That is what makes him so uniquely dangerous. He has no ideology to speak of. His focus shifts back and forth so often that trying to predict exactly what he's going to do is impossible. You can say with certainty that he won't be motivated by any sort of desire for the public good but that's about as specific as you can get until he starts doing something.
Seriously, it's amazing that more people don't understand that Trump does only what Trump thinks will benefit Trump, even if it's just benefiting the ego.
You criticize my statement about what Trump is for being too absolute and then make your own.
He had 4 years in office and didn't deploy troops anywhere. The evidence supports my hypothesis so far.
Don't forget that if we pull funding from Ukraine, the proxy war with Russia will potentially morph into the most peaceful war between Russia and our allies.
Nothing yet happened but you're already crying like it did.
Believe it or not, he'll probably cut subsidies to Israel, get a peace deal in Ukraine (yeah, by giving his buddy Putin parts of the country), and he surely won't start any war with iran.
And all you'll be able to do is continue fuming on the internet while being factually wrong. And in the end it won't be a surprise to really anyone but you that your party will lose electrons over and over.
If they're losing so many electrons, they must be pretty positive by now.
Whew! Good thing the moral purity brigade shunned Kamala Harris.
Didn't you know trump will stop the genocide....by writing a check so large that Israel completely removes Palestinians from the map... can't have a genocide of Palestinians if there are no more Palestinians.
Check mate libruls
on the bright side we won't hear anything about it anymore /s
I'm sure russia will find another issue for our morons 2 and 4 years from now.
Our gullible idiots have always been our biggest weakness.
I mean, Trump will definitly ensure that the suffering of Palestenian people ends quickly
Judging by the lack of consequences for the previously observed war crimes, my bet is they'll prolong the suffering to sate their revenge lust. See if anyone bothers to step in when they erect full blown torture camps.
So will 'The Left's' idiocy and gullibility which helped get us here.
Everybody remembers Nader from 2000, we will never forget the left this time around.
But thank God we saved Palestine from the evil black lady right? /s
"We stood up for our PRINCIPLES!!!"
-- screamed over the sound of brown people being exterminated
Oh don’t worry, the Israelis will only murder the Palestinians that can’t get out of the West Bank and Gaza when Israel takes it over.
Iran can defend itself. Homeless children can't.
Thank your god Netanyahu that she played into his hands.
Good thing your party stuck to their guns and didn't compromise on committing genocide. Then you wouldn't be able to be smug about losing to a convicted rapist and felon.
Kamela actually talked about a ceasefire several times, Trump just wanted to nuke Palestine and be done with it. If you paid attention, you'd know that.
Biden has talked about ceasefires for a year now, and proven it's just talk. Israel has crossed so many red lines it's impossible to keep count, all with no consequences. Harris said she wouldn't change a thing and her campaign made sure people knew she didn't support an arms embargo on Israel. You can gaslight yourself all you want about her intentions, but her actual words -promised- more of the same.
Trump is awful, but telling people the Dems presented any meaningful opposition to ethnic cleansing or that Harris made it clear she'd be better is propagating a convenient lie.
You might find out soon what genocide actually looks like and then you can wipe those fake tears with your useless virtue signalling. Clown
Haha genocide is not some kind of spectrum, it's the most horrific crime a person can commit. So no, I won't. SeE ReAl GeNOciDe. I'M ALREADY SEEING IT. All from a party that thinks I'm stupid enough to believe they're for justice and peace
So outside of Dems learning a lesson which is now yesterdays news. Do you believe Palestinians are in a better place now Trumps is taking over?
I didn't vote for Trump either. And it's the Dems that blocked progressive candidates like Bernie from office.
Do you think by telling voters like me to eat shit about Gaza that they're better off than if they had actually intervened in Israel's genocide?
No but it's about end results and being savvy about applying what little influence you have and thinking a step ahead. Palestinians are going to be worse off now, Trump has stated before the election that Israel can do what it wants to get the job done. How do you think Trump would handle any ongoing protests at the university's, etc. A man just itching to deploy troops to shoot protestors.
You can blame the dems all you like but voting 3rd party or staying at home has assisted Trump back into power and brought in the loons with him that think war in the middle east will bring the rapture.
He's going to make American, Ukrainian and Palestinian lives far worse. But yeah I guess the dem leadership has learned a lesson now they are going back to their comfortable lives that most likely won't be impacted by any of this.
At least under the Dems you could have continued the protests, continued the pressure for peace.
If you compromise on genocide then you are not a political agent, you're a sheep that can be herded with enough pressure.
You keep using that triangulation bullshit because your party has been using it to goad their own base into voting for far right policies OE absolutely pathetic band aids.
We're not falling for it anymore and we're going to fight against genocide without your worthless party.
Genocide according to who btw?
Still think it couldn't get any worse? Hope you're enjoying watching Trump turn Gaza into his next golf course. 🤡
I heard the "but there won't be any of these wars once Trump is back" argument several times.
I would usually revel in watching the walls come down around someone's stupid opinions, but in this case, we as a country have to suffer for it.
Really shows how stupid and gullible the American electorate is. War is a classic “Wag the Dog” tactic.
"But Trump will stop
me having to hear aboutall these wars."Fixed for you. I heard the same from my mom - that it was a REAL SHAME Biden wasn't trying to force Russia and Ukraine to peace.
What is fucked is that no matter what happens. They will insist that it was all the Democrat's fault and all the fault of communists and socialists. They will be believed both despite the absurdity of it all and because of the absurdity of it.
They literally stood off to the side and allowed in the man who will facilitate the complete annihilation of Palestine, so in truth they really never gave a shit about Palestinians, it was all bullshit. With Harris you at least had someone reacted to criticism and you could work with but Trump doesn't give a single fuck about criticism or what people want
Have you seen pictures of gaza? It has been completely annihilated by Biden and Harris who finished the job that Trump talked about.
Oh Harris is the president of Israel now? Odd
She's helping send money and weapons so she may as well be the PM
Americans live in a whole other planet
Without US money and weapons, Israel would not have been able to destroy Gaza like it has.
Yeah, that happened. Now suck it up and get ready for the fight. Who's to blame doesn't matter. Be prepared to fight for your life, or just shut the fuck up about it.
I'm not American, I'm just watching you idiots burn and I'm glad it's gonna hurt, I just wish it hurt only you idiots, not the rest of the world. And please don't move to our cuvettes, stay there and deal with your own mess, don't come here and fuck up our country too
I like how you flipped the script by blaming the group (the voters) and not the individual responsible (the DNC) for making the horrible decisions resulting in an ongoing genocide.
The voter voted in a guy that attempted an insurrection, so yup I think they hold some responsibility here.
And what useful action does this information enable us to take? Next election, should we nominate better voters?
We have the voters we have. We need Democrats that can reach those voters. Blaming them wins us nothing.
Prepare for the likeliness that there won't be another election. Whining about it and blaming people solves nothing. Organize your community, and prepare for the worst. It's time to refocus.
"If I win, you'll never have to vote again," he says as if voting is a burden.
Being real for a moment, the way that the next election cycle begins immediately once the previous one ends is a bit of a burden. I'm already tired of hearing about 'Decision 2028'.
Organize my community to do what? Refocus on what? Revolution?
Until the next election is cancelled, I plan on trying to win it. That means understanding how the Democrats failed.
Good luck with that. Organize for defense. Buy a gun, take some defense classes. Meet other lefties with guns.
Go on then chap, layout what that looks like with the voter we have.
It's not like progressives haven't been shouting the answer to this for the past 20 years, but here it is again from an apparently recent convert from within the Democratic establishment camp.
Voters to Elites: Do You See Me Now?
What it doesn't look like is campaigning with Liz Cheney. It doesn't look like sending Bill Clinton to Michigan to lecture Muslims on how important it is to fund Israel's genocide. It doesn't look like Biden's garbage gaff. It sure as hell doesn't look like Harris having no answer to the question of how she would break with the Biden administration. All of these failures might have been irrelevant were it not for 50 years of Democrats looking down their nose at working Americans. A lot of it is policy, but a lot is just a failure of messaging.
That wasn't my question. It's obvious what they did went wrong by the result. What should it look like next time?
This comment is terrible for a boatload of reasons but one of the funnier ones is that you're talking about shifting blame from a group to an individual and then name two groups (last I checked the DNC isn't one person).
Im sure if you think on it you'll eventually figure it out.
These arguments are so straw man that they give me hay fever.
Voting is done. Do something to protect your community. Organize a defense or stfu about it.
The left has been warning you nonstop for the past year that this would happen. Democrats didn't listen and instead decided that genocide and Cheneys would get Republicans to vote for them. That was stupid as fuck. It didn't work.
I voted for Harris.
This was not the election for a protest. This election was to protect democracy from a traitorois Nazi. Anyone who didn't voters a protest is a sympathizer.
It never is. Democrats keep taking advantage of that. It finally failed.
I voted for Harris.
And now they'll never get to vote agajn.
This is awesome. You just absolutely nailed the exact cause. Now all we have to do is what? Eliminate the voters? That sounds like the Republican plan to me.
Or maybe your plan is to convince the voters to do otherwise? Don't you think the politicians have a tiny little bit of responsibility in that area?
Neoliberalism leads to fascism via a well understood pattern that's currently repeating all around the globe. If you want better voters, then you need better Democrats.
You aren't looking for solutions, you're looking for someone to blame. Quit bitching and start working towards something better, or you're as useless as the Democratic establishment.
That's the thing. Centrists believe that there is nothing wrong with Democratic establishment, and that they were failed by the stupid voters they hate.
Stop. Just stop. Quit blaming people and get ready for what's coming. Organize a defense. Your life depends more on what you do now, than who voted for what.
Yeah, because DNC didn't do a spectacularly bad job of fucking up the campaign.
May the people in this sub who screeched Genocide Joe and threatened Kamala over her continued support for Israel get the policies they voted for.
But at least they got join MAGA to own the libs.
We told you it was a losing issue. You called us Russian bots and tankies and trumpists because that was easier than listening to something you didn't want to hear.
I voted for Harris. But that doesn't mean I'm blind to the suicidal boneheadedness of the pro-genocide centrist wing of the Democratic Party. We tried to warn you. You thought you knew better. In your overwhelming and unearned arrogance, you concluded that anyone that was willing to read the writing on the wall couldn't possibly be an actual person with agency.
Now go hug Dick Cheney. He's the only vote any of you cared about.
If the anti-genocide left were too insignificant to treat like humans, they're too insignificant to blame. Centrists ran the campaign they wanted. Their instincts were and remain shit.
I really hope we get the policies of Cornel West. That would be totally awesome. It's why I voted for dude.
Instead we're getting a continuation of Genocide Joe.
Yep, you are getting what you voted for…
Next time just vote Trump, save yourself the extra steps.
Yeah but GeNoCIdE JoE, etc.
Nah the DNC did this by abandoning their principles and base in a failed attempt to appease conservatives and some foreign government.
Arguing that people should just support, fund, and arm human slaughter, and likening it to something basic like marijuana legalization or taxes, all so you can win a contest is fucking insane coming from the supposed left, but it really just shows how far to the right the party has gone.
You did this.
Who said I didn't vote against him? You're just creating a strawman to validate your argument even though you couldn't be further from the truth. The DNC ran yet another terrible campaign and alienated a bunch of their voters. The people still defending this insanity that has happened almost 3 elections in a row are the people to blame. Are you defending the 2016 and 2024 campaigns? Do you approve of the neck and neck 2020 campaign? How many elections are you willing to lose in a vain attempt at sticking to a losing strategy?
Did you vote for Harris or Stein?
I voted for Harris begrudgingly. Can you please get back on topic now or have you run out of excuses for why she lost and it's not her or the DNCs fault? As I said, you've just created a strawman, and completely derailed the discussion with some "gotcha" that didn't pan out, not that I really believe you'll believe me and will likely claim I'm lying so that you can pretend that you were right all along and everyone else is "the problem" and if that's the case then you can expect the Dems to keep losing elections until you run out of people to blame.
Are you willing to address any of my arguments or are you just going to continue to keep your head buried in the sand?
That person wasn't even the person you were arguing with.
Fair enough my mistake, but it's still an irrelevant question.
That should put paid to the myth that Trump is 'the antidote to all the wars'.
I always thought that the argument 'no wars were started during his presidency' was bullshit.
He spent all 4 years totaling around 3 trillion in Afghanistan, to accomplish nothing.
Trump started plenty of wars https://youtu.be/QQYFVEka3fA
I posted the same video. It's actually kinda incredible what happened.
This video should completely put to rest that Trump absolutely did do some fucked shit and that his rhetoric was equally bullshit regarding wars.
At some point some people were even saying Harris is worse than the same. For your sanity, I only hope you don't have family in the Middle East.
Rashida Tlaib's district is a prime example of this, she kept her seat by a wide margin while Dems lost the state. They decided to ignore their voter base and suffered the consequences.
It's pretty normal for people not to vote for someone genociding their family. It's her fault, not the voters. The same way Democrats threw away the votes of the left and Palestinians because they didn't care if they were being genocided is the same logic the right uses to vote for Trump for the economy despite all the damage he'll do to women and other minorities. You're all equally selfish and you don't have the moral high ground when you're supporting a genocide and quieting any dissent on it. People tried to say this could lose her the election, but nothing can be the politicians fault, of course, just the voters.
Anyway, turns out it wasn't the genocide anyway. She lost Michigan because of it probably but it didn't matter anywhere else, and she lost the election before it was even added. You can add up all the third party votes and it didn't amount to shit. It was the economy. It always is. People in fucking rural Pennsylvania haven't been reading hexbear posts or whatever. They just didn't buy what she was selling.
Or course, if it was the genocide, that just proves what the left was saying all along: she's got to do better on this issue or she can lose the election, and she'd rather lose than not do a genocide. Turned out she probably would've lost either way but still, hopefully the next Democrat candidate will do better, or we can supplant the party with a new one that can run an actual campaign. You can keep doing the bullying thing, but it didn't work this election, or in 2016, and it won't work next election either. Stop trying to convince the voters to care about what you want them to care about, and telling them not to care about what you don't care about, and time to meet them where they are.
crazy to think that trump might do exactly what he said he was going to do. how could we, the voters, have predicted this?
I never imagined the face-eating leopards would eat my face!
--moron lefties
Don't worry there were no wars under Trump last time and there won't be this time it's that simple 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
I genuinely don't know whether you're being sarcastic or not.
Yes, despite the smiley-spam.
Trump’s voters are so unhinged that it has become almost impossible to distinguish sarcasm from their real thoughts. Poe’s law n shit
i take comfort in knowing that most of the time it’s going to be sarcasm, since (in my experience) there are very few trump supporters on lemmy. and the few trump supporters that i’ve seen don’t tend to last.
It was sarcasm, hoped the smileys were enough but we live in a crazy world
We didn't get the Bell Riots but maybe we'll get a WWIII.
Still have my fingers crossed for Irish Reunification this year.
lol within a year or 2024?
I havent heard a peep a... oh its a star trek thing gotcha
Maybe Trek was just a few years off on the Bell Riots
Fucking DUH, god damn.
I would hedge my bets for now. Alternative scenario: The Saudis throw another party for Trump, make some business deals in exchange for reigning in Israel. The House of Al Saud of course doesn't care about Palestinians but their people do and a party and some business is a low price to pay to be celebrated by your subjects.
When it comes to Russia, Trump may realise that Putin way overplayed his hand, but that's balanced by animosity towards Zelensky. OTOH, I mean, business deals. Don't underestimate Ukraine when it comes to being smooth operators. They can sell NASA/SpaceX rocket engines made from Russian war reparations titanium.
Thing is: Trump is highly neurotic and thus, while not necessarily predictable, highly manipulatable if you know what you're doing. Only have to blow the right smoke up his ass.
Just have to be the last one to blow any smoke up there.
Blech.. this honestly seems more likely to me now, plus it can be used as propaganda to "prove" that he did something about genocide, to keep people voting red...
Since we're doing copium, my hope for Ukraine is that the industrial-millitary complex wants to keep sending weapons there, so it will find a way.
I believe Putin's power over Trump will prevent anyone doing anything extreme about Iran. Russia has always had an interest in controlling Iran and certainly would not approve the US taking it out.
When he got re-elected after all the shit he did I knew it was not gonna end well. When Trump backed him hard during his presidency I knew it was gonna be bad. The left voters stepping aside to allow what's coming is just insane
It's time to do something about it. Not just piss and moan.
I mean, I'm all for doing both:
We should get ready for resistance, WHILE, kicking the fuck out of all the fake idiot 'lefties' who helped this happen.
I would bet my left nut that Bibi has ALL the Kompromat on Trump that Pootin has, along with a metric shit ton of his own.
No no guys, Harris was the one that supports the Palestinian genocide, not Trump!
Fucking idiot tankies.
Bud, they both support it. The difference is that Republicans don't pretend to care about stuff like this.
No, the difference is the extent of which they will enable genocide. And I'm not just taking about Gaza.
It's a massive fucking difference.
What limits are being imposed on them currently? They're already flattening Gaza, attacking UN outposts, and invading other countries and this is all with our warplanes, bombs and tax dollars.
Guess were all in on genocides rather than pretending were not enabling it and hoping it sorts itself out, sorry.
I can't convince ~74,000,000 morons to change their mind. ¯\(ツ)/¯
Don't they even know who they picked to represent them?
"ex official said: this might happen and that might mean" how is this relevant news?
I mean… there can’t be an ongoing genocide if they are all dead taps temple
(God I hate this planet now…)
Iran did try and assassinate him, I wouldn't be surprised if he holds a grudge for that.
And these fuckin morons will still say there was no wars under Trump
It does feel about on-brand for this timeline that Trump of all leaders might get the credit for fixing* the Middle East problem.
For everyone not aware, given everything else that's going on—yes, that's world war
This is exactly what I was saying months ago. And it's absolutely going to happen now. The entire region is going to plunge into chaotic war, and Putin couldn't be happier.
Here's the other side that was "just as bad."
So the same thing as Biden?
The war with Iran is already on the doorstep of happening under Bidens unconditional aid.
Such a shame Kamala did not get elected. Who also promised unconditional aid and advocated for starting a war with Iran.
Posts like this would have a lot more impact if the Democrats were different.
Do agree, these people seems to ignore the news or at least now aware of what is happening.
If Biden didn't want a war with Iran they would have stopped the genocide in Gaza, pushed for an actual deal, remember the one that Hamas agreed to and then Israel backtracked. He could have stopped the bombing of the Iranian embassy in Syria, or the attack on Lebanon.
Iran telling the whole world about there drone attack and then Israel goes to attack Iran again, followed directly with USA and UK telling Iran to stop it aggression??
Iran have population of 90 million people, Israel has 7 maybe, pretending Iran cannot take Israel is just stupid.
No Kamala would‘ve saved us! /s
No leftist thinks "Joe wasn't that bad". On his watch Israel has killed an estimated almost 200,000 people (using more accurate figures by the Lancet and people on the ground since their health center basically can't count anymore since they don't have the infrastructure), started their initiation of the general's plan starving out Northern Gaza, made everyone but a doctor flee the last hospital in Northern Gaza, start taking over West Bank, killed a record number of journalists in any conflict ever, kill the people they were negotiating with multiple times, and let them start a war with Lebanon and Iran. Oh and also sent backup to Yemen and put troops in Israel to protect them from retribution since apparently Israel is the only country allowed to defend themselves. Trump will do the same thing, but just talk about it more. It'll be tough for him to reach those heights, even if he sends more troops in, it'll just be continuing the logical next step of what Biden was doing.
How would that be different than the current plan under Biden?
Someone I can work with and eventually break? Or the racist fascist who wants to annihilate the brown people? I guess they're the same!
-idiot Americans
Ahh. The old ‘push Biden left’ strategy. Didn’t seem to work very well, considering Biden is helping commit a genocide as we speak.
I remember even when Biden was VP I kept reminding people what a horrible person he is. How he's one of the biggest proponents of the murderous, racist drug war, and the police militarization that came with it. Biden has blood on his hands. And when I would criticize him then and when I said he was a terrible candidate, you guys downvoted me and called me a right winger, because I was not "left enough", nobody ever is anymore for you guys. You're authoritarian hard left and you refuse allies and friends, you want everyone to follow your view to the letter or they're a "Nazi" even if it's a white leftist calling a person of color a Nazi. You guys are insane.
As a brown American?
Go fuck yourself.
You hold random people online more accountable than the politicians you support. Peak bootlicking behavior.
America first
Libs still have zero self-awareness. Promoting genocide for months in the most condescending and futile manner... Then continuing to blame everyone else after they inevitably lose yet again.
Seriously Trump is a garbage person who would be easy to beat with Bernie, Michelle, etc. But the libs gotta impose their terrible politics on everyone. Gotta shove their genocide down our throats.
Which is totally nothing like the blank check they currently are getting.
Israel will lose that war.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
I don't think you understand the capabilities difference - Israel has the nuclear option if they are threatened existentially. But lets take that off the table a moment.
Iran's capabilities are their missiles, manufacturing capabilities. Their Refineries, and strategic energy reserves are in known locations and are the lynch pin of Iran's economy. And finally, the Nuclear R&D facilities are in known places. All of those are the targets - and Israel absolutely has the capacity to take it out- just not the strong justification.
If Iran continues striking Israel, Israel is going to feel the pressure to decapitate Iran as a threat to them.
The fall out of this is more interesting:
China loses access to Iranian Oil for the short to mid term - it will take time to restore capabilities.
Russia loses access to Iranian missiles - without production capabilities, and depleted stocks, Iran will not be able to sell missiles to Russia let alone drones.
Iran's economy will be in shambles - that could very well open the door to coup or revolt.
Iran would unload as many missiles as it possibly could - which could be devastating. But that would come down to just how many interceptor missiles Israel would have available, along with other air defence options.
If you want a "Why would trump support this" - there you have it. It reaffirms US obligation to support it's allies, It puts economic pressure on china, and denies Russia access to weapons - which should help push them to the negotiating table.
In reality, I would more expect Iran to back off. Then again - With Israel obliterating Iran proxies, Iran may feel the pressure to complete a nuclear deterrent and Israel may end up wanting to decapitate Iran as a threat BEFORE they gain that capability... what a bloody mess.
I dont dissagree. But for the rest of yall here, the point stands.
Foreign policy is nuanced, multi layered, and gives no shits about your morality. Any of you that boil down the issue to palistine vs israel or race or religion, have no idea whats going on. Two state solutions are just to placate you while wholesale slaughter happens.
This is about power and maintaining it. Always has been. And american, or western dominance in the region as a way to maintain what little peace exists, and not let our adversaries seize that control, is the end sum game.
Im not saying its right. But superpowers and governments do not care about your moral hangups. A hundred thousand dead "someone else" vs a major strategic location means nothing. Appalling, sure, but there is a brutal logic to it.
That's all under the assumption that Iran didn't secretly develop nukes, or bought them from Russia or North Korea and just keeps it completely hidden to turn the tides at the last possible second.
Lets, for a moment, presume Iran has Nuclear weapons - and uses them. Lets just remind that Israel is known to have at LEAST 90 nuclear warheads, and several of those missiles are likely prepped ready pointed at Iran.
To put it simply: That move DOES NOT end well. If anything, it ends strictly worse then simply accepting that Israel crippled Iran's infrastructure. And any hope for normalization and opening trade up on the global market outside of China, Russia, and North Korea becomes basically zero until the regime is overthrown. Even worse - if Israel opts for nuclear strikes to follow up their conventional ones after being attacked with nuclear weapons,there is a good chance it's not just several years of repair work, but decades of set back that could easily lead to mass scale discontentment and open revolt against the regime by several factions simultaneously.
The reality is: Israel is not a force capable of sustained occupation of an entity like Iran. But they are a force capable of a decapitating strike. And the entire reason is, Israel has VERY LIMITED force projection capabilities - and, because of a lack of land boarder with Iran, would need cooperation with other states that may not be thrilled with opening themselves up to direct conflict in the short to mid term. The only real reason Israel has room to do a strike is 1. It's retaliatory, and 2. entities like Saudi Arabia are liable to be just fine with their regional rivals basically offing each other, as Saudi Arabia is in a MUCH better position to take advantage in the event of Iran's regime collapsing.
Which brings us to: Just because you have nuclear weapons, does not mean you use them. The reality is, nuclear weapons are a weapon of last resort - unless you are France, and then it's a nuclear warning shot... Because France is just different.
Trump wont go against Putin lol
HOW?!?!
You do realize, the only way to get from Iran to Israel, is via air.
The Iranian air force has checks notes some old mig-21s, 25s, F-4s and F-14s that don't fly.
The Israeli Air Force has checks notes F-15s (undefeated in air combat) and F-35s (ditto).
It wouldn't be a fight, it would be one of those scenes in movies where the guy is tied up and beaten for information, till the guy punching just gets tired of swinging and takes a quick break.
Somehow the same people who thought they could make the argument of "neither party will stop what is happening in Gaza, so vote based on other issues" don't think israel already had a blank check. Now these same people are gloating as if the people of Gaza deserve to be genocided because the democrats didn't win. It's sick and it's illustrative of what's wrong with the "democratic" party.
I loathe the comments saying some version of "I hope everyone who didn't vote for Harris gets what they deserve". Dem bullying and refusal to stop 100% support of war crimes (including domestic protest suppression/condemnation) alienated a crucial part of their base, but apparently it's still not their fault. Now there's bitter folks here taking a sick satisfaction telling people they're going to suffer and consoling themselves by viciously insulting everyone who didn't fall in line.
Apparently when the horrors happen it's not because Harris ran a shit campaign courting conservatives, didn't listen, and promised more of the same (or even a slide right) as Biden, a president with an approval rating in the 30-40% range. It's not because she refused to promise an immediate stop to support of war crimes as per America's own laws. It's the fault of everyone who refused to vote against their conscience because a "lesser evil" platform didn't convince them to support a party of unrepentant war criminals.
Downvote me all you want and tell me how idiotic I am. I told people urgently to vote Harris right up until the election, but I also always spoke out against bullying on Lemmy and it's only gotten worse post-election. The people in this thread talking about how others are going to get what they deserve are abusive people and I don't want to be associated with them anyways. Their disapproval is something I'm proud of.
Oh my goodness, those free Palestine protests are really going to step up in the U.S. !
Just kidding, they’re done, mission accomplished. They were never about Gaza, just about disenfranchising Democrats as part of social engineering to ensure a Trump win.
Let me ask you this, dear concerned protesters: Who was the protest leadership? I don’t mean the local organizer. Who was directing the protests at the national level? I sure as shit don’t know.
Common decency and morality, maybe?
Fee Palestine protests aren't new.
“Common decency and morality” just got a vindictive, hateful pos elected. The Gaza protest emphasis on Biden or Harris but never, NEVER on the Republican lead Congress that votes on foreign aid is rather telling.
Continuing the legacy of Genocide Joe...
This is how dems and republicans work together to push state ever deeper into fascism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratchet_effect
So no real change from Biden or Harris then?
Yes, apart from the blank check part and Trump telling Netanyahu to "finish the job" on national TV, no real change at all.
Oh, and also the impending genocides of brown and queer people, but I was told before the election that those weren't important and/or wouldn't happen.
Biden and Harris was/is still finishing the job. Trump may have said it out loud, but it's happening right now.
Harris abandoned queers, brown people, and the entire progressive side of the party and needed to pay the consequences.
I hope those right wing votes they courted were worth their efforts
Ah, another new excuse to avoid any responsibility. "It doesn't matter that I didn't vote for Harris because it will be just as bad in Gaza either way."
Anything to help you sleep at night.
I voted for Harris. Most leftists I know also voted for Harris.
Doesn't mean we can't be critical. She took every wrong turn after getting handed the keys to the campaign. Including not supporting a ceasefire and cease of arms transfers until the last few days before the election.
Maybe if she would have advocated for that at the start, things would have turned out differently. But then again you can say that about many things her campaign did wrong.
This was her's and the establishment Dems' campaign to lose, and they did with flying colors.
They were courting anyone from the political spectrum who was still a constitutionalist, lefties included, to unite against whatever trump's mood happens to be that day.
No, the queer community, brown people, disabled people, etc will now pay the consequences. gg
This brown queer person says that Harris was the wrong person for the job, we have our own agency and don't need liberals to speak on our behalf. We're capable of speaking for ourselves. Many Brown queer people that I'm familiar with felt the same and voted accordingly
None of that changes whether you will be among the primary groups to pay the consequences, which is all I said.
Well, they know who you are, and you better believe that you are on several of their lists. So hopefully you will be able to take solace in the fact that you "took the high road" during the last real election this country will ever have, when you're huddled up in some white person's basement, hiding from the government.
So brave of you to try and come white knight for us as our protector. What would we do without white CIS people to guide us?
If you can't even do the most basic thing to help push the tiniest bit to prevent the worst from happening to you, why would anyone else care?
Is that what you took away from that comment?
Learn some fucking history, because it's repeating.
What in the past 13 months has made you believe that Biden is not giving Israel a blank check to what they want and just finish the job?
The fact that it hasn't happened?
It is happening. Look at what they're doing in Northern Gaza. Look at the townhalls they have where they openly talk about settling it once they wipe out that entire area. And you think it's going to stop there? Look at them banning the UNRWA and look at how they now passed a new law aimed at deporting anyone related to "terrorists". Look at how they're now starting to demolish homes in the West Bank too.
It's fucking happening already. What are you waiting for to say that Biden is supporting it? For Israel to finish the fucking job?
Israel has not been given a blank check from the U.S. It simply hasn't. I'm not sure why you're trying to claim otherwise.
I just gave you the fucking reasons. Why don't you give me why you think they haven't?
Because congress allocated a specific amount of money for arms sales to Israel. This isn't a secret.
Put the same amount of bodies on both tracks and it would be accurate.
How so? Trump is about to kick things up to 11
And what level would you say it's at currently?
Realistically: Less than 11.
Armchair: 3 or 4.
Trump's people seem eager to turn this into an open regional conflict with direct US action and boots on the ground. Once that happens we are cruising towards a world war, and no one will even be thinking of Gaza any more.
Edit to be clear: I'm not minimizing what's happening in gaza. It's terrible. But it can get a whole lot worse.
I'm not trying to come across as rude....but have you been living under a rock? How on earth is what's going on currently a 3 or a 4? There's literally an extermination campaign in Northern Gaza where Israel is executing everyone they see and routinely attacking the only functioning hospital left. And I'm saying function VERY loosely. Not to mention all the attacks they do kn the rest of Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, or the regional escalations with Iran.
It's already at 11.
Yeah it's about to go region wide. Many 10s of millions more will be in active combat zones. What we have now is just a primer.
Edit As a highwater, Israel flirts with nuking Iran if they become nuclear capable.
The implication is that 11 is as bad as it gets. Unless you're like a hundred, you've never seen 11. It can get so so worse.
Yes, people are dying. And it's horrible. But acting as though this is the worst it's ever been or will ever be is laughable.
Incorrect