Updated 10:25 PM EST on March 7
President Biden announced during the State of the Union on Thursday night that he ordered a military mission to establish a port in Gaza to get more aid into the Strip as Palestinians are starving to death and Israel is still restricting aid.
The drastic measure is being ordered instead of Biden using the enormous leverage he has over Israel to pressure them to allow in more aid or halt the genocidal campaign. The US also recently started conducting airdrops of aid into Gaza, which aid groups have slammed as a public relations ploy.
“Tonight, I’m directing the US military to lead an emergency mission to establish a temporary pier in the Mediterranean on the Gaza coast that can receive large ships carrying food, water, medicine, and temporary shelters,” Biden said.
US officials claimed to Axios that the pier in the sea off the Gaza coast will allow hundreds of aid trucks to enter the Strip per day. But the pier will take weeks to build, and Palestinians are already starving to death at a rapid rate.
Biden insisted there would be “no US boots on the ground.” But the plan does still run the risk of US personnel being targeted off the coast, which could lead to a major escalation of US involvement in the Israeli slaughter of Palestinians.
The aid will pass through Cyprus before heading to the pier and will be subject to Israeli inspections, which means some could be turned away.
CNN reported that some of the items most frequently rejected by Israel include anesthetics and anesthesia machines, oxygen cylinders, ventilators, and water filtration systems. The CNN report said other items that have faced restrictions are dates, sleeping bags, medicines to treat cancer, water purification tablets, and maternity kits.
Biden acknowledged in his speech that Israel has killed “thousands and thousands of innocent women and children” but gave no indication he was reconsidering his policy of unconditional military support for the slaughter.
“More than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed. Most of whom are not Hamas. Thousands and thousands are innocent women and children. Girls and boys also orphaned. Nearly 2 million more Palestinians under bombardment or displaced. Homes destroyed, neighborhoods in rubble, cities in ruin. Families without food, water, medicine,” he said.
The Washington Post revealed on Wednesday that Biden’s administration has approved over 100 arms deals for Israel since October 7.
Here’s how this will work: US troops will start to build the ‘port’, the IDF will shoot some U.S. soldiers, blame it on Hamas and Wash. will use it as an excuse to send in US troops. Another scenario could be, the same thing happens, but the U.S. withdraws which will ensure the starvation of the Palestinians continues as planned.
I think you’re right. And the message, public or not, to Netanyahu, will be “if any IDF troops get in the way, you should make sure they bring their own body bags.”
A set up for “USS Liberty II”?
America LOVES they some sequels, to be sure ! Especially very unnecessary ones. Like “Blair Witch 2” . WITAS was that movie made ????
*Why In The Actual S**t
Only this time there will be no President Johnson to stop the U.S. jets, to prevent “embarrassing an ally”
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LOL
The Army Corps of Engineers could probably put one up pretty quickly.
If US forces were to actually shoot at IDF blocking aid, it would be the biggest attack of slaves on their masters since Nat Turner. Which is why it won’t happen. More like the US will “deliver” aid to the IDF who will then hold it up indefinitely.
They wouldn’t shoot at the IDF. And risk the US being accused of “Anti Semitism”? Remember what happened when GHWB threatened to hold up Israel’s dole until they put a halt to their settlements? Imagine if we did do something like actually shoot at them….
And a lot of other idle threats.
You can not be that stupid to think the IDF try to pull a stunt like that.
Oh yeah, they’d do that. And they’ll be absolutely sure to get away with it too. And that’s not a guessing game either. They murdered Americans before without any American response. The loyalty of American political and military leaders belong to Israel first. That’s a given. The question is whether they would risk the possibility of PR damage if some of the press doesn’t fall in line quickly enough. They would then quickly have to repair the damage by blaming everything on Hamas. They would succeed in that of course, but an awkward and preventable exercise nevertheless.
But since the Israeli are the sort of people who joyfully murder desperate and famined people waiting in food lines, that concern is probably not going to be sufficient to guarantee US personel not being retrieved horizontally.
We will see how they disappoint us this time.
President Johnson called back the American fighter jets who were on the way to engage in the attackers. He did not want to “embarrass an ally”. There is an excellent post in Shceerpost.com by Wayne Stiles, titled “Former US Navy Pilot: The Day Israel Attacked the USA. Stiles is a 1960’s Navy pilot.
…are you just uninformed…or are you a traitor like The Bush / Cheney Cabal?
I am smart enough know that Israel is not going to fire on US troops. If you don’t understand why, well you are clearly uninformed on the real world.
Remember the Liberty!
A fog war of event. No one has ever come up with a reason why Israel would deliberately attack the USA. Israel would not exists without the help the USA. Why would they put that at risk? But there will always be conspiracy nut jobs that will believe the attack was deliberate. They are joint by the no moon landing crowd, the earth is flat and the UFO ships exists in Area 51.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk:
“Accordingly, there is every reason to believe that the USS Liberty was or should have been identified, or at least her nationality determined, prior to the attack. In these circumstances, the later military attack by Israeli aircraft on the USS Liberty is quite literally incomprehensible. As a minimum, the attack must be condemned as an act of military irresponsibility reflecting reckless disregard for human life. The subsequent attack by Israeli torpedo boats, substantially after the vessel was or should have been identified by Israeli military forces, manifests the same reckless disregard for human life. At the time of the attack, the USS Liberty was flying the American flag and its identification was clearly indicated in large white letters and numerals on its hull. It was broad daylight and the weather conditions were excellent. Experience demonstrates that both the flag and the identification number of the vessel were readily visible from the air. At a minimum, the attack must be condemned as an act of military recklessness reflecting wanton disregard for human life. The silhouette and conduct of the USS Liberty readily distinguished it from any vessel that could have been considered as hostile. The USS Liberty was peacefully engaged, posed no threat whatsoever to the torpedo boats, and obviously carried no armament affording it a combat capability. It could and should have been scrutinized visually at close range before torpedoes were fired.”[38] In 1990 he wrote, “I was never satisfied with the Israeli explanation. Their sustained attack to disable and sink Liberty precluded an assault by accident or by some trigger-happy local commander. Through diplomatic channels we refused to accept their explanations. I didn’t believe them then, and I don’t believe them to this day. The attack was outrageous.”
Why would they do it?.. To drag the US into their fight.. Duh!
Now if you want kooky conspiracy theories look no further than the numerous Zio apologists trying to blame the victims.
That’s a good storyline for Hollywood. 🤣
What else?
Feeding the Palestinians just so the Israeli THUGS can shoot them using USA made weapons, is STUPID! Stop sending Money/Lethal Weapons to the Terrorist State of Israel. The food is already outside the Gates of Gaza, why not just tell Israel that the UN Troops will be escorting the Trucks in and out. Biden uses every STALL tactic possible, so the Devil can keep slaughtering defenseless Human Beings.
Just another CYA for Biden to help him in the election. As in Ukraine, the administration is trying to get to November without a disaster while still supporting Israel. But there is a more sinister reason for this “pier”:
Gantz went to Washington to secure a green light for both Rafah and expanding the war into Lebanon. If this “port” is ever built it will be used to supply US troops entering the war in Lebanon. If it can support “hundreds of aid trucks”, it can support US military vehicles (short of tanks and heavier vehicles, of course – and maybe even those). It’s location in Gaza will be further away from Hezbollah’s missile arsenal (or so they probably mistakenly think.) These vehicles will be coming directly to Israel, not anywhere in the Med or Red Sea because both the Houthis and Hezbollah will have blocked any shipping there with their missiles. The existing Israeli ports will already be under fire.
The equivalent of two truck loads of MRE (from military warehouses) was likewise a CYA move. It was quite ludicrous, knowing full well that MRE’s need to be mixed with water, and that there is no potable water for the Palestinians. Or, maybe the drooling one does not know that.
So US has to pay to build a port because “Great Ally” won’t allow our emergency food shipments in. Makes the US look weak.
Yes. Ridiculously, pathetically weak.
First, the Army Corps of Engineers will need clearance by Israel. Then, I would like to see a real POTUS order a battle group to show up, then tell Israel to f*ck off, then communicate to the IDF to stand aside. (I know, I know, I am dreaming)
Stop the genocide, aid will get in.
Simple. Direct. Correct.
But the pier will take weeks to build, and Palestinians are already starving to death at a rapid rate.
This was the first thing to come to my mind when I saw the headline. WEEKS. Doesn’t get more heartless.
Biden is competing with Trump on who is more delusional…! In US, it seems if you’re a delusional and a systematic liar, people vote for you more…!
There used to be a port, until Israel destroyed it along with the airport.
Who Biden is fooling…?! Definitely not antiwar.com folks…! 90% of his voters and some uncommitted voters… Perhaps…!
Not this voter.
Eisenhower and the Suez Canal Crisis
https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/eisenhower-and-the-suez-canal-crisis
I have read about that episode, but what you presented encapsulated it perfectly. Example of a President in action. A real President.
He supplies the weapons that kill them. He supports the policies and actions that cause their deaths, homelessness, starvation, and misery. Then he turns around pretending to care about them and to help them get them through the miserable conditions. There name for type of personality.
Dissociative identity disorder (DID), sometimes called split, multiple, or dual personality, is when a person has two or more sets of thoughts, actions, and behaviors. Examples may include marked differences in personality or a sense of self, or gaps in memory.
I don’t think there’s sufficient functioning stuff inside Biden’s head to split it in two. His brain has gone atomic, and quantum effects begin to matter: you can’t know if it’s there until you look at it and only when you do you know it isn’t.
The concern is not with Palestinians and their plight, that notion warrants no attention whatsoever, the concern of Biden is naturelement with Biden and his faltering reelection campaign. He and his campaign are trying to fool enough people long enough to get what he wants. After that he can safely toss them away again.
And another Trump supported attacks Biden. Meanwhile, 91 felony counts await their guy.
I’m not a supporter of Trump. I tought I have been pretty clear about that already. One is mentally ill and the other doesn’t have a mind at all. The choice of leaders the Americans have is just tremendously sad and pretty illustrative of the state of decay of the empire.
Pure election optics.
“But the pier will take weeks to build, and Palestinians are already starving to death at a rapid rate”. If genocide joe really wanted to stop the genocide he could but as he is a self-proclaimed Zionist anything he does is optics for the US electorate.
By the time this is finished, the Palestinians will already have starved.
Whether they will already have starved or not, the volume of humanitarian supplies that can be delivered this ways doesn’t come close to meeting urgent needs.
The US could, of course, take action that would result in those needs quickly being met, but American leaders are in thrall to the Israel lobby and continue to prioritize avoiding political punishment by the lobby over stopping genocide and helping desperate Palestinians.
This “emergency mission” is deeply cynical theater. If there isn’t a special place in hell for people who concoct schemes like this, there should be.
My friend, this is just a justification for a new US military base in Gaza. When did the US build a military base to feed starving people? This is actually very cynical. It’s like “Operation Iraqi Freedom.” Or “Operation Just Cause.” Or “The Patriot Act.” Or “The Inflation Reduction Act.” Do you want me to keep going?
Or, Cast Lead, Protective Edge…………………….
You edged me, 😂
I think Israel has other plans. They’ll take the weapons and the extra “aid” but they really don’t like us. They’ll use the port post genocide.
Apparently, the US already has a secret base in Israel already?
I’d still be surprised if they’d want a US base right there. The one in the desert I can see, but not a piece of something they crave.
As usual, you’re probably correct.
Nah, I’m just guessing.
Found this article: https://theintercept.com/2023/10/27/secret-military-base-israel-gaza-site-512/
With more to starve in the Sinai desert. Absolutely hellish.
Absent the UNRWA, if it were ever to eventuate, rely upon it, all the supplies, food and equipment that survives Israeli inspecters and arrives in Gaza will be wildly overpriced, rotten, defective, unsellable stuff, … if not, in the best American genocidal tradition, smallpox infected. It will have 10% for The Big Guy; and, all provided by the famously generosity American taxpayer.
Biden is doing Trumps job for him before he even becomes President, which is now inevitable. Trump cruises into the cleansed Gaza strip and builds a hotel!
Shit like this never happened on Trumps watch.
Stop deflecting.
“Shit like this never happened on Trumps watch.”
True. He was 100% anti-Palestinian/pro-Israeli instead of just 80%.
Where is your proof? Was there anything comparable to what’s happening there now?
It’s entirely clear that Trump was 100% pro-Israel and anti-Palestinian. If I were to question Knapp’s characterization, it would be to ask whether he thinks Biden is different, other than (feebly) rhetorically.
So far, Biden hasn’t been different at all. But he may be at least feebly/rhetorically prepared to move a little bit in the right direction, if that’s what he thinks it takes to win in November.
Yes.
Under Trump, the Israeli regime did exactly as it pleased with the full support of the president of the United States.
Under Biden, the Israeli regime has done exactly as it pleases with the full support of the president of the United States.
What could be more comparable than that?
Biden wrings his hands about it a little bit instead of ONLY bragging about how “pro-Israel” he is like Trump did. But that’s not a substantial difference.
Sure, only difference being an ever growing mountain of dead bodies and expanding lake of blood.
That mountain and lake have been growing/expanding since the 1940s. Sometimes faster, sometimes slower.
Yeah but now it’s an extinction event.
Not in any way it hasn’t been since 1948.
Only in scale.
And what are you basing it being different if Trump were in office? Him saying so? His entire foreign policy seems to be based on other countries just being too damn afraid of him to do anything other than to be totally subservient to his demands or else.
I’m basing it on past performance.
I wouldn’t speculate on what Trump’s demands would be if it were he in office but at least he’d make them – unlike Jello Joe.
Trump’s past performance is:
1) Suggesting, early in his campaign, that the Israelis should talk peace with the Palestinians;
2) Seeing the $125 million check in Sheldon Adelson’s hands;
3) Immediately becoming “the most pro-Israel candidate in history;”
4) Giving the Israelis anything they wanted, with whipped cream and cherry on top, on demand, the instant it was demanded, and without complaint or condition.
Which doesn’t mean he’d do the same thing again. Donald Trump does whatever Donald Trump thinks (I use the term loosely) is good for Donald Trump at the minute it comes up.
How fortunate we are then that what’s good for Trump is good for America.
You never know, all that lies in the future is in flux. The only thing you can be sure of in advance is that whatever a politician promises in the runup to elections, that will not happen. No doubt, no exceptions. You can take that to the bank.
And all other candidates/office holders do the same but most of them not on the same scale as Trump.
I guess you see his past performance a bit differently than I do. Thomas Knapp covered it pretty well.
I saw the same things you did.
What I didn’t see is anything like what’s going on now.
Israel did this because they had a weak, befuddled Biden who is surrounded by Zionist agents.
They’d never get a better opportunity to exterminate the Palestinians. And that’s why they did what they did and are doing what they’re doing.
That the Zios would do this under Trump is pure speculation and irrelevent.
Biden owns this.
In 2014, 88 Israelis were killed. That was the most in any year that Hamas and Israel warred. So, they allowed a big number to happen in 2023 and along with a propaganda campaign second to none they had their excuse for their long planned ethnic cleansing. This was going to happen no matter who was in office. So, I guess we can speculate what might have happened if Trump were in office when this happened but his normal “this wouldn’t have happened if I were president” wasn’t going to work. And given his ass kissing loyalty towards Israel, there is absolutely no reason to think things would be any different.
They allowed a pretty big number in 2014 too. Over 2000 Palestinians murdered and plenty more between then and now. What does this have to do with Trump? All this happened on Obama’s watch.
You didn’t get my point. I’m saying once that big number was reached on Oct 7th, it didn’t matter who was in office. Israel went on this rampage because they got enough dead Israelis to invoke the ‘Holocaust”. Trump wasn’t going to stop Israel from doing what they are doing and if I had to guess, I’d be willing to bet that he would have been full throated behind Israel’s response. There is no reason to think otherwise given his complete loyalty towards Israel while in office. And remember, if Trump had won, he wouldn’t be pissed at Netanyahu for congratulating Biden.
For all we know Hamas might not have launched their attack on Oct. 7th.
Some progress was made by Trump’s Abraham accords and proposals for a Palestinian state. While these proved to be less than sufficient, it was a start at a diplomatic solution.
It’s entirely possible that a second Trump term might have averted this catastrophe.
Jesus Christ, the Abraham Accords were just bribes for countries to play nice with Israel. A fucking yard sale of F-35’s. And proposals for a Palestinian state? You have got to be joking. So no, a second Trump term wouldn’t have done shit to avert the catastrophe. In fact, it might have hastened it.
Maybe but we’ll never know for sure.. Only that it didn’t happen when HE was in charge.
And we’ll never know for sure what would have happened if HE had been in charge. But I base my speculation on things Trump did while in office while you’re basing yours on what you hope he’ll do in office in his second term. Believe me, I hope you are right. But you obviously see Trump in a different light than I do. We can only hope his ass kissers that have his ear are antiwar and pro liberty. Because if there is one ironclad demand from the Don, it is complete and utter loyalty and constant adoration.
We can only hope his ass kissers that have his ear are antiwar
Exactly, Trump is a loose cannon that if tethered correctly can inflict mortal wounds on our common foe – the neocons.
Yes, Biden does own this.
But why is it that Biden owns the bad things Biden does and the failure of the good things he fails to get done, but Trump always gets the benefit of any doubt from you?
Trump went to open war with Iran with the Soleimani assassination, after violating the nuclear deal with them, for example.
And Biden withdrew the US from Afghanistan (as Trump said he was going to do and then didn’t bother to actually do).
The way I remember it Trump backed down and wisely allowed Iran to shoot up US bases without response. Some open war!
The nuclear deal was violated by Obama almost from it’s inception so Trump shutting it down was merely a confirmation of it’s demise. The problem with Biden is he did not do as Trump said he was going to withdraw on a specific date but immediately reneged on the deal by dragging his feet looking for some way to remain in country. That was the foundation of the debacle to come.
On another occasion Trump declined to respond to the downing of a US drone by Iran on the good advice of Tucker Carlson overriding the bad advice of his military.
This shows the guy grew in office and is unlikely to defer to the MIC the way he did at the start of his first administration.
He don’t get fooled again.
The nuclear deal was violated by Obama almost from it’s inception so Trump shutting it down was merely a confirmation of it’s demise.
Or, he could have reversed Obama’s violations and brought the US into compliance. Do you think he considered that? No need to answer. We both know.
Trump said he was going to withdraw on a specific date
But not a specific date during his term.
Trump declined to respond to the downing of a US drone by Iran on the good advice of Tucker Carlson overriding the bad advice of his military.
Link?
The date for withdrawal was decided by facts on the ground and deliberation with the Taliban. It was preceded by the draw down of US troops from the theater.
Unlike Biden’s ever changing arbitrary date of withdrawal.
There wasn’t a date for withdrawal. There was a deadline for withdrawal. And Trump deliberately negotiated that deadline for a time when he would either be in his second term, or be out of office. There was nothing to stop him from going ahead and getting the job done between November of 2020 and January of 2021 except his decision not to do so.
My comment was no way a defense of how Biden ended it up handling the situation. And I agree the date was set based on conditions but regardless, it was still after his term ended. I’m not saying he wouldn’t have left by that specific date if he had won a second term but it’s still an unknown since he lost.
You don’t withdraw troops helter skelter like Biden did, unless you’re in a planned retreat. Trump did announce the withdrawal in Feb 2020, and it was probably a step-by-step process that wouldn’t have left all our weaponry there.
The troops should have been withdrawn years/decades earlier.
So far as I know, not only not “all,” but none, of “our” weaponry was “left” there. The US-made weaponry that remained in Afghanistan when the US withdrew was weaponry that had been given to the US’s quisling/satrap regime there. It no longer belonged to the US.
As of January, 2021, there were about 2,500 US troops remaining in Afghanistan. That’s less than one Marine regiment. Getting it into or out of anywhere is a job that takes a few days, not months.
Well Iran was not afraid of Trump. They send 20 ballistic missiles into a USA airbase.
No casualties. If Iran killed one of our top military leaders, would you have been oK with us saving a little face?
Thank you.
Trump assassinated Qassem Soleimani with a drone strike after arriving at Baghdad airport.
Quantifiably uncomparable.
And Iran blasted USA airbases with 20 or so missiles and Trump did nothing.
No casualties.
You have no idea, do you. He moved the embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. He presented Israel with weapons and money throughout his four years as POTUS. The IDF killed quite a few Palestinians during his presidency, while settlers gobbled up land, killed Palestinians in the West Bank. The “shit” you refer to is the reaction to decades of occupation, a brutal blockade, limited food, medicines, potable water, electricity, no hope for young men, none. The “shit” was a set up, Bib’s 9/11. How can the Israeli administration not know what was afoot, what with the Mossad, Shin Bet, American and Israeli listening posts, satellite views, spies in Gaza, hmmm? It has been reported that the Israeli administration may have known about the operation a year in advance. Prior to that, the settlers were set loose in Palestinians neighborhoods, snipers picked off men, women, even children. Hamas was and is the excuse. Removing Palestinians is the final “solution”. The other day, Mr. Trump said that Israel needs to “finish the problem”. You know what he meant. So, don’t come off as thinking the rapist, adulterer (3 times), fraudster can save the world. His world is money. His money. Not you, not I, nobody. In 2016 I did not vote for him or Mrs. Clinton. You think your vote for Mr. Trump will change anything? Even Mr. Trump is controlled by AIPAC ( its predecessor , the AZC, should have been forced to register as a foreign agent) just like the cowards in congress.
By the way, Genocide Joe said “Finish the Job” several times during his State of the Union speech last nite. That being the code word for you know what……..
It would not change anything should Biden be ousted and Trump is brought in, but nevertheless it is still politically important to get rid of Biden. That being it will show the anti-war, anti-genocide crowd can exert some election time leverage, and in that give the next President something to think about before doing evil.
Nonsense. Google his speech and then search on the word “finish”. Guess what he use it only once in his speech. And here is the sentence he used it in: “Studies show that children who go to pre-school are nearly 50% more likely to finish high school and go on to earn a 2- or 4-year degree no matter their background. “
What studies? The NEA’s and other organizations who want to indoctrinate kids before kindergarten?
The IDF killed quite a few
The operative word here is few
The Hamas seizure of colonial settlers was anything but a shit show.
The IDF response was animal savagery. It remains so.
Again, nothing compares this with anything occurring during Trump’s tenure.
And I couldn’t agree more with you on Natenyahu setting this whole thing up from the get go.
Israel got their big number of dead people. Propaganda took care of the rest. Trump wouldn’t and couldn’t have stopped it.
Genocide Joe has got to go and if it takes Trump to do it then I say Thank God for Trump! 🇺🇸
I’m fine with the lesser of two evils. You just seem too smart to be conned into thinking he’s anything but a clown.
I’m aware of his short comings but right now he’s the only game in town and our best shot at avoiding a shooting war with a country that can hit back.
What was true in ‘16 is even more so today.
He proved he was full of shit in ’16 so that’s a poor argument.
My argument is that we’re well on our way to shooting war with Russia led by people who actually want it to happen. They must be turned out of office and Trump is the most expedient way to do that.
Sure he was a big disappointment for a lot of us but he was better than the alternative.
And what is his plan? He has none. It’s always him saying there would be no war if he had been president but nothing about how would have stopped it and nothing about how he would end it.
Here’s him recently:
“I know them both very well and we will restore peace through strength. Get that war settled. It’s a bad war. And Putin has so little respect for Obama that he’s starting to throw around the nuclear word,” Trump said during a speech in Greensboro, North Carolina.
And previously:
“I know Zelenskyy very well, and I know Putin very well, even better. And I had a good relationship, very good with both of them. I would tell Zelenskyy, no more. You got to make a deal. I would tell Putin, if you don’t make a deal, we’re going to give him a lot. We’re going to [give Ukraine] more than they ever got if we have to. I will have the deal done in one day. One day,“ Trump responded.
So, it’s more of “I’m Donald Trump” as to why we would have peace in Ukraine right now and never any actual coherent plan.
At this point, the nature of the settlement will be up to Putin entirely. I don’t see a role for the US at all.
If Trump improves relations with Russia, that’s all to the good but I don’t anticipate them getting sny worse under Trump.
I don’t disagree. I was just giving examples of Trump seemingly thinking HE is the difference and having any actual plan isn’t necessary.
And I don’t really think anything could get worse under Trump, how could they? But I can’t help but envision a revenge tour and nothing much else.
oh Trump does have an actual plan.
Trump didn’t have any plan other than get the US out of dodge.
If you’re looking for a plan (or scheme might be more accurate) there maybe a copy left somewhere in “Toria” Nuland’s old dest at State.
“Trump didn’t have any plan other than get the US out of dodge.”
That’s pure speculation on your part.
Well, it’s generally plausible to assert, at any time and on any issue, that “Trump didn’t have any plan.” Sometimes a plan will develop from whatever knee-jerk response he has to a question or claim, and sometimes that plan isn’t terrible (for example, his decision to pursue peace with North Korea), but generally the knee-jerk reaction, combined with a “what’s good for ME?” evaluation, is what it’s all about with him.
He got us out of Afghanistan and most of Syria. He came within a hairsbreadth of ending the Korean War. If not for that damned Bolton he might just have done it.
I thought you were talking about Ukraine specifically.
I think the part about telling Zelensky it’s over and he has to make a deal is exactly what’s been missing since Russia’s intervention began.
Biden has been doing the exact opposite of what common sense dictates.
That would put Ukraine at the mercy of Russia. Putin could make any demand and if Zelensky didn’t accept, he’d be cut off. It goes back to Trump thinking he is the sole reason there’d be peace regardless of if he had an actual coherent plan. We need diplomacy, not ultimatums.
By all evidence, they are at the mercy of Russia.
Better to accept defeat now instead of later when that well of mercy has run dry.
Did you forget about Iran blasting a US base with 20 missiles on Trump’s watch?
Justified retaliation for Solimani’s assassination.
Trump took it on the chin and moved on rather than plunge the world into an unnecessary war.
Good job Don!
Trump did the right thing for “taking it on the chin” but he first had to put us in the position to have to take it on the chin.
Agreed. A terrible blunder and the buck stops with him but also consider that he was steered wrong on the purpose of Solimanis visit by the same people who are now mounting a rear guard attack on his campaign.
I know. It’s never the Donald’s fault.
“General Qassem Soleimani has killed or badly wounded thousands of Americans over an extended period of time, and was plotting to kill many more … but got caught! He was directly and indirectly responsible for the death of millions of people, including the recent large number …. of PROTESTERS killed in Iran itself,” Trump tweeted.
In announced retaliation for us killing their general on a peace mission?
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
Five people reported dead by airdropped aid after parachute failure
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/3/8/israels-war-on-gaza-live-60000-pregnant-women-face-malnutrition-in-gaza
US port plan to step up aid delivery to Gaza criticised as ‘distraction’
Plan criticised as attempt to ‘divert attention’ from widening famine in Gaza as Israel obstructs aid operations.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/8/us-port-plan-to-step-up-aid-delivery-to-gaza-criticised-as-distraction
temporary pier
For a temporary ceasefire.
To h*ll with the ceasefire, put the d*mn pier up, with cover from U.S. forces. If Israel tries to pull another U.S.S. Liberty, then engage. And no inspection of the aid by the IDF. Get it done. If we only had President Eisenhower today. It would get done.
A notional temporary ceasefire, or perhaps a possible temporary one, if Hamas satisfies all the necessary contingencies, by effectively surrendering.
This is going to require Seabees on the beach and they’ll require force protection and that means boots on the ground..
There will be blood.
Even the Israelis aren’t reckless enough to violently resist US forces with the whole world watching. And the US wouldn’t be staging the show if they hadn’t made suitable arrangements with Tel Aviv.
I hope I’m wrong. The lobby would have a damned hard time overcoming the reaction to an Israeli attack on American troops.
Nothing was done during and after the Israelis attacked the U.S.S. Liberty in 1967. President Johnson didn’t want to “embarrass an ally”.
That was an entirely different situation in a very different time and environment. There would be no possibility of explaining away or excusing an attack on US forces on the Gaza shore today.
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I have a t-shirt that says that. I get the strangest looks when I’m in public places. Like they’re trying to do math in their heads.
They’re trying to figure out whether you’re a dirty commie or a Trumplican deplorable, depending on which wing of the Uniparty they identify with.
Uniparty is quite correct. Owned by corporations and AIPAC. Citizens United sealed our fates.
I live in a small town. They already know I’m a dirty commie. 😉
I have a T-shirt with the picture of President Eisenhower on the front, along with this: “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hoped of its children.” I also get strange looks. One person said it means we need our guns.
that is a whole lot of words for one T-shirt
AMEN!
The US Navy has 30 amphibious ships designed to offload cargo on the beach without a pier. Why not use them?
Also, the Army Corps of Engineers can put up a pier pronto. As done during WWII.
Send food to feed starving people. Send arms to kill the people saved from starvation. Win Win.
You know, I believe you are right. In addition, we will see to it that the Palestinians who survive will have the very best of tents for the Sinai desert.
…in other words….”We will use the demand for “Aid” as a backdoor method to get the US Taxpayer to finance a Port for the State of Israel in Gaza”. As if Israel would allow a port for the support of Gazans? What a joke.
If Israel does not get on the Peace Train?…. Hasta la vista baby!
Is this a real action ready to go or merely a Bidean brainwave to placate his anti’s?
Notice that Biden did not say: “we are ready to go”. No one outside a narrow circle around him has any idea at which stage this plan is. My guess: at stage zero.
The planners have not yet decided what the best location for that mulberry is. The planners have not yet decided who the new supreme commander, the new Eisenhower is, because Biden would have stated that in his SOTU speech: “and I have ordered General such-and-such to lead the action”. The planners apparently have no idea of what to do if food and other help begin to pile up on the beach because the Israeli’s go slow on inspections and control the inland transport routes and Biden is reluctant to use military force
No sane military officer should accept the command for what appears to become another disaster. Have they not had enough yet?
Even a failure to start soon will be branded by history as a disaster.
We need two men from the past. General Eisenhower and Major General Smedley Butler. When General Eisenhower was President, those years were wonderful for my family. They were also wonderful years for the country. The wealthy were taxed at a 91% rate (President Eisenhower pegged it that high, knowing the financial high jinks the wealthy had available, so, after the accounting mumbo jumbo, the tax intake would be what he desired), high union membership for workers. Major General Butler did not believe defense of the homeland was scurrying all over the world looking for monsters to slay. He believed in defense from the shore to 200 miles out. Period. He wrote a book, a short piece, “War is a Racket”. Filled with truth. He knew what war was, having served in combat united during WWI. Along the way, he was presented TWO Congressional Medal of Honor. He was instrumental in quashing a coup during the 1930’s. We just do non have men like them today. To our demise.
Speaking of providing relief by sea:
Scroll down a bit here:
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/03/1147342
One phone call. No more aid. No more Security Council vetoes. All much cheaper, and faster, than this Election Campaign Emergency Performance™.
For years, Israel has fired on Palestinian fishermen, prevented them from fishing beyond one mile. One mile!
This is simply a false flag / setup for a US military port / base off the coast of Gaza. So that the US can justify escalating the conflict in the middle east even further. Aid my ass.
That is almost certainly not the case, Dave. Even if the US wanted to escalate the current conflict, building a temporary pier and a base of some sort on the Gaza coast wouldn’t assist in that in any meaningful way.
Presidents have been saying two-state solution through their lying mouths for decades. All the while, Israel gobbling up more territory.
Breaking Points:
Biden’s ABSURD Gaza Port Plan Dismantled
Biden wants it both ways, please the Zionists and win the election.
Arms deals? We pay for everything. Israel’s economy is an elaborate scheme supported among others, by US cash, reparations money from Germany, “volunary” annual cash infusions from all NATO countries and many others around the world.
Building of a temp port. Coincidentally , at the end of just completed Israeli military road cutting accross Gaza — through levelled buildings — connecting Israel to Mediterranean.
US will enrter in one capacity or the other. Trip wire is needed by Israel. Any attack on what is left of genocide emptied Gaza, becomes attack on US.
And per usual, Israel will continue its decades long sadistic rationing of food and medicine. And will also charge an exorbitant fee for providing this “service”. But this has been happening for decades now — it is goid that the world is now paying attention to this inhumane practice. Better than never.
FJB