If the alternative wasnât Donald Trump , Iâd be thinking that Biden and his administration deserve to lose this election because of the way they have allowed Netanyahu and Israel to yank them around over this conflict. Remind me , whoâs the Superpower again ?
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Itâs the same here in the UK. I cannot stand Starmer and his cull of the left, but the alternative is the Tories.
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Iâm glad to say that I no longer have that dilemma. I gave up voting after Iraq.
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Amid growing concern over Israelâs censorship regime, enforced by the military censorâs office and by gag orders issued by the courts, Haaretz published an article on Wednesday with blacked out words and sentences to demonstrate the scale of redactions.
It is shocking, but then again, itâs nothing new. The US have a long history of acting in a crooked and malicious way when it comes to their foreign policy. Trying to rule the world comes at that cost Iâm afraid.
Iâm more surprised by the fact that they still try to pose as the good guys, when since decades, nobody falls in for it anymore.
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A line that famously reported as having been said in exasperation by Clinton after coming out of one of his first 1-1s with Netanyahu. Itâs been the Gordian Knot of US politics for a couple of generations.
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As much as Biden is massive disappointment who clearly supports war crimes and genocide when it suits his domestic situation, the depressing reality is that even if Trump wasnât there, the Republican candidate would be twice as extreme as Biden on Israel and twice as destructive in every avenue of government.
There really is no winning when the most centre party is this horrible.
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^^^^^
In the absence of fact, autofill bias.
But its not happening in this forum move along move long, these are not the droids you are looking for. 
Part about Biden is true w.r.t him supporting War Crimes and Genocide, the part of Trump is merely a hypothesis. He might have done a whole lot worse but heâs not had the chance. Yet.
I do agree that other Republican leaders would simply follow Bidenâs playbook.
The external policy of US largely has remained the same regardless of which partyâs in power.
All hostilities effectively stopped under Trump? Save for some actions against Assad in Syria.
I think Trump did order a hit against some Iranian General.
But he wouldnât have responded to Putinâs war against Ukraine (primarily cause Putinâs got his number)
He created a travesty and rolled out his Trump Peace Plan w.r.t Gaza
Ironically right now , Palestinians might be forced to concede even more land than what they would have done under the Trump Peace Plan.
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Aye, Im really not sure about collusion with Russia. I think it was more a deal about non-expansion. Trump did take out the Iranian General and Assads Chem network.
Have you come across the term âthe intermediumâ - Im told its a Dem policy, to relieve Taiwan, in hope that such production can be moved to Romania and Ukraine over time. They call this area the âintermediumâ and have identified it for cheap labour and development etc - but it just happens to be in Russia sphere of influence. So not the best idea and seemingly illogical.
There are plenty of places where the production can be shifted.
One of the biggest mistakes that the world did was to allow China to gain a near monopoly in manufacturing.
Instead of splitting the requirements to multiple countries , so as to offset the rise of one particular country.
I do hope that thereâs a viable alternate to Taiwan found. But whether it needs to be Ukraine / Romania is something that needs to be looked at.
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The Trump âpeace planâ ignored Palestine altogether.
The Trump admin prosecuted the conflicts they were involved in with more vigor and less accountability than either of the adjacent adminstrations
Trump made lots of claims about removing us from foreign conflicts, but it simply was not matched by what his administration did.
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Absolutely.
Agreed. The way this is going though , it doesnât look like the Palestinians are going to get better than the peanuts that Trumpâs plan is.
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To be honest the comparison was with reference to the Biden admin, and carried ???. But in good faith, youâre right Trump was more gun-ho than Obama. Obama got criticised though for being cowardly, do you remember that red line that Assad crossed? Obama bottled it - after Ghouta - that was because Putin provided him carrier killer missiles to take out a US carrier group. Thatâs why we got a coup in Ukraine!
Trump was aggravating in Israel and Palestine, I agree. If it matters the place is continually aggravated.
Iâd like to see the stats on Israeli offenses committed in Bidenâs rule and those committed in Trumpâs.
Not including the current genocide ofcourse.
Trying to see if I can find something that gives an indicator.
Doesnât really matter what the stats prove or donât prove though. Trump with his idiotic peace plan damaged the confidence of Palestinians that they would get a fair deal.
Obama, believing that the ongoing AUMF covering existing actions in the middle east did not extend to Assad, went to Congress to ask them to authorize intervention as he believed he was legally required to do so. They denied him that. We can pull apart the politics and leadership failures of how we got to that situation where he looked so feckless, but I donât believe this is a reasonable characterization of the events, especially as the evidence linking the attack to Assad was according to US intelligence not as rock solid as it needed to be in the âmy predecessor invaded the wrong country due to faulty intelligenceâ era
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