An increasing number of Americans want Joe Biden to encourage Israel to stop military actions in Gaza; and Mr. Biden’s handling of the situation is now down to its lowest levels yet.
In the poll, conducted before Iran’s drone and missile attack on Israel, there wasn’t much clamor among the U.S. public for U.S. military action against Iran, were Iran to strike Israel. More would instead have the U.S. support Israel’s next actions.
Biden bypassed the need for Congressional approval to make sure Israel got weapons ASAP. Two weeks ago he arranged to send them billions in fighter jets and over 1,800 2,000lb bombs. There are stockpiles of US arms flagged for US use that are inside Israel that Biden has allowed Israel to pull from. “Officially it’s US equipment for US use,” a former senior Pentagon official said, “but on the other hand, in an emergency, who’s to say we’re not going to give them the keys to the warehouses?”
The US is also using loopholes to keep over 100 arms sales under the radar, including thousands of bombs. “This doesn’t just seem like an attempt to avoid technical compliance with US arms export law, it’s an extremely troubling way to avoid transparency and accountability on a high-profile issue,” Ari Tolany, director of the security assistance monitor at the Centre for International Policy thinktank, said" and added “They’re very much borrowing from the Trump playbook to dodge congressional oversight”.
No matter your stance on what Biden should be doing, why do you call that “slow-walking arms deliveries”? Seems like you’re trying to rewrite the history of how strongly and swiftly Biden has supported Israel - aka doing election season damage control regardless of evidence.
Biden is going to further jeopardize his reelection chances just so arms manufacturers can profit more off genocide.
Say what you want about the capitalist class, but they certainly have class solidarity.
I don’t get why he doesn’t do this for Ukraine instead.
There’s no equivalent existing funds or contracts and Republicans keep blocking it because Trump wants to help his buddy Putin in exchange for favors
Apparently Biden can just do it without Congress though.
Sales, not donations, specifically
They already added Ukraine to the lend lease list, Biden could let them use the credit card.
They did, and ran out of credit
The entire point there is not having a limit.
I agree with you, but likely because it could escalate with russia and russia has nukes and aren’t poor brown people who “don’t matter”.
We don’t have a base full of munitions in Ukraine that we can just give Zelenskyy access to.
But we could…
Except every time Ukraine attempted to join NATO, Russia attacks them. A nation at war is ineligible for NATO admission. It’s no accident. Putin does not want to share a border with a NATO ally.
They don’t need to be in NATO for us to store weapons there. We have plenty of bases in non NATO countries. We’ve even had bases in countries the Russians invaded. (Georgia, 2008)
But also, NATO doesn’t actually have that as a hard rule. There’s been debate about it and NATO Members are wary of such a member pulling everyone into a war right away, but there’s nothing stopping them from doing it.
No, Ukraine just sits right next to the largest military logistics machine in human history on it’s western border.
My guess is there’s no Ukrainian equivalent to AIPAC. Joe Biden is the top recipient of AIPAC funds over the last 34 years, more than doubling 2nd place with a total of 5,736,701 received.
We’ve all seen this movie - this is the part where the big bad humiliates the (supposed) “good cop,” and now “good cop” is going to hand over to “bad cop.”