• @CanadaPlus
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    3 hours ago

    I can’t see the Democrats considering another unpopular war right now. Trump might, but I can only imagine what craziness that would look like. There’s a non-zero chance he would ignore Israel and move assets to the Gulf states because they gargled his balls just right, or something. Or maybe he decides to do nukes.

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      51 hour ago

      If Netanyahu can get an open war between Israel and Iran before Jan 20th then Biden will absolutely commit ground forces to fighting that. Which is going to mean counter insurgency or even frontline work in Iraq again.

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        11 hour ago

        My god, would he? Even if that meant tanking the election? (If it’s in the lame duck period after Nov. 5 that seems less crazy, I guess)

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          56 minutes ago

          Time and again he has repeated their propaganda, even when our own intelligence agencies said Israel was lying. He always talks about a ceasefire, but every time Netanyahu moves the goalposts at the last minute, (usually by adding Hamas’ known deal breaker that IDF troops would remain afterwards), Biden blames Hamas. Biden and Blinken have ignored evidence of war crimes from their own agencies that disqualify Israel for military aid. Now he’s surged troops into the region, and he isn’t using them to evacuate the 6,000 Americans who have asked for help leaving Lebanon.

          Where does it stop? We think it has to just based on rationality but we made that mistake with Bush. We thought that a clear trial of the facts in Congress would either give him the moral authority to conduct the war or shut it all down and he just ignored that part of the AUMF. Like Biden has just ignored any evidence against Israel, even regarding the ICC. So I ask again, where does this train stop? What evidence do we have that he’s working to restrain Netanyahu and prevent a wider war being kicked off by the obvious belligerent?