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Sanders calls for conditioning US aid to Israel
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I have a better idea... why doesn't the US just stop funding murderous fascism everywhere period?
Because being morally upstanding doesn't work when every other country is trying to outmaneuver you geopolitically.
So maintaining global dominance is so important the US just has to enable war crimes and ethnic cleansing? That’s the logic of fascism.
Oh, poor, poor US... forced to be the most prolific funder and enabler of fascist terrorism in human history because somebody else twisted it's arm.
Poor, poor US.
Hey, Russia's trying its hardest.
The same standards should be applied to all countries. Otherwise you're forced into a vicious cycle of an arms race for brutal global domination. This is the purpose of international law and if anything we should be decentralizing and strengthening it.
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/11/20/us-israel-dead-last-in-following-un-charter/
Because unstable regimes make them and the NRA a lot of profit.
See also: Russia starting an unprovoked war because of the fears that the evil west will try to geopolitics them.
See also also: fucking bullshit.
Soooo... how's the "Unprovoked Wars Since WW2" awards looking this year? Is Russia still about a hundred wars behind the US or is it starting to catch up?
Your random whataboitism looks even more pathetic in a thread about how it's bad and wrong to start wars even if you say the word geopolitics a lot, and how US bad actually for doing that. Don't get me wrong, that is always pathetic, it's just more pathetic now
Just to be clear... which "whataboutism" are you referring to here?
This one?
This one, maybe?
Or this one, perhaps?
You wanna go through the whole list so that you see how many of these "whataboutisms" you have to try and debunk (somehow)?
I am beginning to think I am not speaking to a person, those levels of lack of reading comprehension are very hard to achieve for a human of flesh and blood.
Oh goody! Another self-professed expert!
I'd really like to feel more comfortable about this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, aaaaaand this.
Mind whitesplaining all of this away for me, too?
That's what I thought. Do you trigger automatically on any comment, or is it more of a manual process?
Will the whitesplaining take you long?
Hmm, doesn't look like a manual response to me, totally context independent. I wonder if it is locked to a topic or could it be derailed. Let's start with simple words. Israel Palestine IDF Hamas.
What? You can't?
Damn it, that's no fun, we seem to stuck in a loop
No whitesplaining the evil empire from you today, I take it.
Perhaps your expertise in the subject matter at hand was feigned?
Color me surprised.
because people still live in the countries even if the governments are bad.
We don't fund Israel because its people are hungry, we fund them for the military advantage it provides us and this weird thing where half the country thinks that if Jews control Israel, then blue eyed, capitalist Jesus will be able to come and swoop down and carry them away to Heaven before everyone else is smushed by God like grapes in a wine press. It's a whole thing. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/gaza-war-evangelical-leaders-cheer-end-world-1234884151/