Trump will give Israel ‘blank check’ which may mean all-out war with Iran, says ex-CIA chief
theguardian.com
Summary
Former CIA Director Leon Panetta warned that Trump’s return to the White House could embolden Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, giving him a "blank check" in the Middle East and increasing the risk of war with Iran.
Panetta expressed concern that Trump would support Netanyahu's aggressive stance against Iran without restraint, potentially worsening regional instability.
Panetta also predicted Trump might allow Russia to retain parts of Ukraine if he returns to office, though he doubted Trump’s negotiation skills.
He criticized Trump’s approach to foreign policy, suggesting Trump would be inclined to "capitulate" to authoritarian leaders, which may not sit well with some Republicans.
Congratulations, idealists. You definitely stopped the genocide by refusing to vote for Harris and urging others to do likewise. A+ job.
Oh he'll help end the genocide alright. You can't genocide a people that's already wiped off the planet.
ukraine is gonna get 'helped' similarly. putin will have a free pass once the u.s. aid stops. i don't think the other nato countries or the e.u. can cover that, especially long-term.
I hope as soon as US aid stops, they launch everything they have at major Russian cities.
right? they're holding back for conditional western aid. as soon as the aid ends those conditions mean nothing.
Why would this be different from right now? If they could feasibly end the war they way, they absolutely would, and id absolutely condone it.
Because as far as I know Ukrain hasn't been committing war crimes with western supplied arms.
I've always said they could ignore all conditions by saying there's Hamas tunnels under the Kremlin.
I'm pretty sure it's the most documented war of all time by now, we'd know. The Israeli war is much younger and it was readily apparent when the war crimes started. I'm pretty sure that's why a lot of countries like to go dark from the internet when they kick up their bullshit.
I think the EU will change. If Ukraine falls, territory grabs from Poland, Finland and Hungary are next. Those are actually EU constituents.
Hungary will not leave the EU btw. Orbán's days are numbered, what with the Tisza overflowing.
Y'all are thinking pretty small, Putin won't just have a free pass about us aid, Putin has a pass to our entire structure. Their military might be shit but their Intel apparatus is not at all.
Ukraine is a subsidy given to lockhead martin. Putin is an US asset. They will not stop.
I truly cannot grasp how uninformed one has to be to claim to be for Palestinians but think helping Trump's odds was strategically better. Such profound ignorance is on par with maga, themselves.
On another note I want absolutely nothing to do with Mehdi Hasan. I supported him for quite some time but he got tunnel vision to such a degree he ended up thinking completely irrationally and contributing to the problem. He's venturing into Jill Stein territory for me.
"They" weren't persons holding "real" opinions, I'm afraid. Just as the russians calling for "russophobia" 2 months prior to the special genocidal operation
I'm expecting mega stupid bullshit like Trump lifting sanctions in exchange for Russia standing down so Trump can send American planes over and show the world we have the biggest and best bombs, while his megadonors line up for Russian contracts and celebrate
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/usa-israel-has-used-us-made-arms-gaza-violation-international-law-new-report
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1091
They were both felons, idiot.
Then he will be held to the same account Harris was.
What are you even talking about? Harris is the Vice President. Exactly what do you think her job responsibilities and powers are?
She said she would not have changed a single decision that was made during the Biden administration. Biden said that she was in 100% agreement with every decision made. Which means she agreed to the current conditions
I really hope you find solace in the idea that Harris and Trump would be equally bad for the world as Trump throws America into the garbage and tries to take the planet with it.
Do you have any idea how much CO2 biden's proxy wars have dumped into the atmosphere? How many chip manufacturers were given environmental exemptions for chip manufacturing? The actions from Democrats mirror the actions from Republicans. The only difference is that Republicans say all of those things out loud
Again, I hope you find solace in the idea that Trump and Harris are exactly the same when things get really awful. I'm sure you'll feel much better about yourself not voting for her.
Block him, Squid. He's doing this in every thread and you need to put this energy towards more important things.
I find solace in not allowing the continued rightward march of Democrats. Liberals are 100% to blame for our current conditions for never holding their own people accountable. At their current pace the DNC will be on par with people like McConnell in a few years.
True. The Democrats will not continue their rightward march now that America will be a one-party fascist dictatorship because they are no longer necessary. Congratulations. You won. I hope your papers are in order when they ask for them.
Dude, you really need to just move on from Biden and Kamala. They lost and aren’t going to be in office much longer. Trump is the threat.
Tell us you don't know what a VP does without telling us you don't know what a VP does.
Okay my man look at the margins. The anti-genocide people could've all voted and it wouldn't have flipped a single state outside of Michigan. And the thing is: Harris lost before Michigan even finished counting. So yeah, you're barking up the wrong tree here.
See, if you'd said the anti-genocide people who protest voted could've all voted for Harris, you might've had a point.
But turnout in this election for the Democratic candidate was significantly decreased, and an uncertain number of those were anti-genocide.
Abstaining gave Trump the presidency. Abstaining for what reason varies, but Gaza was clearly an issue for some to stay home.
This is one of the excuses they are giving rather than accept any culpability whatsoever. "Even if we voted for Harris, Trump would still have won."
And in the same breath, they'll say it's the Dems fault for supporting genocide.
"Or votes wouldn't have made a difference in the outcome, but Dems lost because they didn't do the thing that would have supposedly gotten our vote"
Yep.
Culpability for what? Nothing is forcing Biden and Harris to support such atrocities. Nothing forced them to abandon the left and the working class and cater to the right at every opportunity. If you want to point fingers, why don't you start with the actual candidate leading the campaign, who consciously made all these decisions, and the party leaders backing her?
Was 2016 not enough of a wakeup call? Was the near loss in 2020 not a wakeup call? Here we are in 2024, repeating the same old song and dance, and people are still digging their heels in thinking that moving further and further right is a winning strategy for the Democrats and it's everyone else's fault when it doesn't work again and again and again.
Maybe the party leadership will finally pull their heads out of their asses after this, but I won't hold my breath. They'll probably pick someone like Joe Manchin to run in 2028 and then wonder where it all went wrong once again when he loses to someone like Ted Cruz or Ron DeSantis.
Maybe handing all three branches of a nuclear power to literal fascists?
You really don't grasp what has has transpired here do you? You think that those of us who have been ringing the alarms are just overreacting and it's going to be business as usual?
I did that? The Supreme Court was already under control of the fascists because the DNC rolled over and allowed the Republicans to take the nomination away from Obama a year before the election. They again rolled over and allowed Trump to nominate yet another justice weeks before the election. In my district we voted in a blue congresswoman and had no senators on the ballot. Are these losses around the rest of the country my fault, too, or the fault of the people running those campaigns?
How exactly were you ringing the alarm bells? By telling everyone to vote for Biden and then Harris? By telling everyone the obvious about what a piece of shit Trump is? How did that work out for us?
I've been ringing the alarm bells about how terrible the Dems have been performing and all the shitty policy they've been supporting (genocide, the rich, the right) and got so much pushback. I've been called a shill, a republican in disguise, an idiot, and everything else under the sun and look how things turned out for us. You supported a losing strategy from a party full of neoliberals that doesn't give two shits about you or anyone else and now you want to point fingers. As I said before, how could it not be more clear after losing or nearly losing this many elections in a row that the DNC and their leadership is the problem?
Yes, and I'm saying that Gaza wasn't an issue for enough people to matter. Harris needed Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan to win, and while I can see pro-Palestinian votes swinging Michigan I simply doubt there were enough of them in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to matter. If you think otherwise, then you have more faith in the American people than me I guess.
This not to mention down-ballot congressional races.
Gave them everything they fucking wanted. This country is cooked.
The fact that the person representing the choice to act is also giving a WTF, dude face is hilarious.
Please give me the numbers of these in every swing state along with how they were determined.
There is no way for you, or anyone, to know how many people abstained from voting over any one issue, 🤡
Stoppig the genocide... Who started it?
Israel. What's your point?
Cool so Trump won't be responsible for stopping the genocide either. Everything falls on Israel.
No shit. That has nothing to do with this discussion.
Why did you bring up the genocide if you do not believe the American president has any responsibility for it? Biden has funded 70% of the cost of the genocide.
Gosh I don't know, maybe because a huge number of people decided to allow in a rapist fascist dictator who is going to conduct his own two genocides domestically, thinking their protest vote or their protest abstention would totally teach the Democrats a lesson regarding Israel?
Have you spent the week in a cave?
What did you do to stop the genocide?
I've been working with Jewish Voice for Peace for a year now. What about you?
Some demonstrations and sharing articles online.
Clearly you have been working tirelessly, with laser-focus. I'm sure that and being sure that Trump and Harris are equally bad will give you a lot of comfort when Trump gives two thumbs up as Netanyahu bulldozes Gaza and puts up a bunch of resort hotels.
Oh shit you're the one who shared those online articles? Thank you for your service 🫡
Trump voters: "Trump is the most peaceful president ever. We need to bring the defence spending to Ukraine home. America first".
Trump is elected and inevitably drags the US into yet another war in in the Middle East
Trump voters: Pikachu face
Nah. Just kidding about that last part. It was all just empty rhetoric to justify the grift and looting all the way down as the country burns to the ground in the background.
Trump is very isolationist. I'd be quite surprised if he committed to any conflict directly. Funding Israel to fight for him however...
I find it odd when someone says Trump is this or Trump is that as if he's consistent on anything. His absurd narcissism is the only consistent thing about him. You can bet your ass he would drag us into a war if it would stroke his ego in some way.
That is what makes him so uniquely dangerous. He has no ideology to speak of. His focus shifts back and forth so often that trying to predict exactly what he's going to do is impossible. You can say with certainty that he won't be motivated by any sort of desire for the public good but that's about as specific as you can get until he starts doing something.
Seriously, it's amazing that more people don't understand that Trump does only what Trump thinks will benefit Trump, even if it's just benefiting the ego.
You criticize my statement about what Trump is for being too absolute and then make your own.
He had 4 years in office and didn't deploy troops anywhere. The evidence supports my hypothesis so far.
Don't forget that if we pull funding from Ukraine, the proxy war with Russia will potentially morph into the most peaceful war between Russia and our allies.
Whew! Good thing the moral purity brigade shunned Kamala Harris.
Didn't you know trump will stop the genocide....by writing a check so large that Israel completely removes Palestinians from the map... can't have a genocide of Palestinians if there are no more Palestinians.
Check mate libruls
on the bright side we won't hear anything about it anymore /s
I mean, Trump will definitly ensure that the suffering of Palestenian people ends quickly
Judging by the lack of consequences for the previously observed war crimes, my bet is they'll prolong the suffering to sate their revenge lust. See if anyone bothers to step in when they erect full blown torture camps.
The smugness of the average democrat at seeing Palestine being flattened by Democrat-funded bombs is a true sight to behold. Your inhumanity will be remembered.
I heard the "but there won't be any of these wars once Trump is back" argument several times.
I would usually revel in watching the walls come down around someone's stupid opinions, but in this case, we as a country have to suffer for it.
Really shows how stupid and gullible the American electorate is. War is a classic “Wag the Dog” tactic.
"But Trump will stop
me having to hear aboutall these wars."Fixed for you. I heard the same from my mom - that it was a REAL SHAME Biden wasn't trying to force Russia and Ukraine to peace.
Waiiiiit, are you saying that not voting Kamala didn't magically stop the genocide in Gaza?????
That it only accelerates it, like I and other people have been saying for months????
WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING?!
Well now that the election is lost, the Democrats could make true on their claim they would seriously end this, but had to wait until after the election...
I doubt they will, because every of their action has shown to be equally strong genocide supporters. But we should see the next days, as Israel still doesnt let anywhere close to 350 Trucks into Gaza, leave alone any into the north of Gaza. The ultimatum is running out.
Also as weapons deliverys to Israel have been and are illegal anyways under US law, now would be a great chance to get every Republican and Democrat who voted for them or approved them as part of the administration into jail and in front of a court.
Oh wait, they wont because breaking the law, which unsurprisingly helped the convicted felon win, was worth it, so genocide could be further supportet.
It's not like the Republican house thwarted all of Biden's efforts either
That is true. Which is why it doesn't matter if the bombs given to Israel are red or blue.
However now Democrats lost over genocide. Now AIPAC cannot play both parties anymore by making blind support for Israel the deciding factor. The Democrats lost because of Israel. Now they need to purge the Zionists and rebrand as the non genocide party, if they want to win moving on. This locks AIPAC in as being only in support of the Republicans, which limits their political influence.
If it wasn't for Harris/Biden loss, there was no hope for Palestinians, or any other people in West Asia in regards to US policy. Now there is a chance that one side of US policy will change.
Are you saying Kamala and Biden had the power to stop the genocide in Gaza but chose not to as a bargaining chip with Muslims?
Good job putting words in my mouth, .ml
I said Trump would make the genocide worse. Which he will.
Take your bow single-issue voters and protest voters. We tried to warn you.
You did this.
Yeah but GeNoCIdE JoE, etc.
Nah the DNC did this by abandoning their principles and base in a failed attempt to appease conservatives and some foreign government.
Arguing that people should just support, fund, and arm human slaughter, and likening it to something basic like marijuana legalization or taxes, all so you can win a contest is fucking insane coming from the supposed left, but it really just shows how far to the right the party has gone.
You did this.
So… let’s get this straight. Trump won because he got more votes. I voted against him, you didn’t.
Yet it’s my fault.
That’s some gargantuan big-brain logic there bud.
Who said I didn't vote against him? You're just creating a strawman to validate your argument even though you couldn't be further from the truth. The DNC ran yet another terrible campaign and alienated a bunch of their voters. The people still defending this insanity that has happened almost 3 elections in a row are the people to blame. Are you defending the 2016 and 2024 campaigns? Do you approve of the neck and neck 2020 campaign? How many elections are you willing to lose in a vain attempt at sticking to a losing strategy?
Did you vote for Harris or Stein?
I voted for Harris begrudgingly. Can you please get back on topic now or have you run out of excuses for why she lost and it's not her or the DNCs fault? As I said, you've just created a strawman, and completely derailed the discussion with some "gotcha" that didn't pan out, not that I really believe you'll believe me and will likely claim I'm lying so that you can pretend that you were right all along and everyone else is "the problem" and if that's the case then you can expect the Dems to keep losing elections until you run out of people to blame.
Are you willing to address any of my arguments or are you just going to continue to keep your head buried in the sand?
At some point some people were even saying Harris is worse than the same. For your sanity, I only hope you don't have family in the Middle East.
Rashida Tlaib's district is a prime example of this, she kept her seat by a wide margin while Dems lost the state. They decided to ignore their voter base and suffered the consequences.
It's pretty normal for people not to vote for someone genociding their family. It's her fault, not the voters. The same way Democrats threw away the votes of the left and Palestinians because they didn't care if they were being genocided is the same logic the right uses to vote for Trump for the economy despite all the damage he'll do to women and other minorities. You're all equally selfish and you don't have the moral high ground when you're supporting a genocide and quieting any dissent on it. People tried to say this could lose her the election, but nothing can be the politicians fault, of course, just the voters.
Anyway, turns out it wasn't the genocide anyway. She lost Michigan because of it probably but it didn't matter anywhere else, and she lost the election before it was even added. You can add up all the third party votes and it didn't amount to shit. It was the economy. It always is. People in fucking rural Pennsylvania haven't been reading hexbear posts or whatever. They just didn't buy what she was selling.
Or course, if it was the genocide, that just proves what the left was saying all along: she's got to do better on this issue or she can lose the election, and she'd rather lose than not do a genocide. Turned out she probably would've lost either way but still, hopefully the next Democrat candidate will do better, or we can supplant the party with a new one that can run an actual campaign. You can keep doing the bullying thing, but it didn't work this election, or in 2016, and it won't work next election either. Stop trying to convince the voters to care about what you want them to care about, and telling them not to care about what you don't care about, and time to meet them where they are.
Don't worry there were no wars under Trump last time and there won't be this time it's that simple 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
I genuinely don't know whether you're being sarcastic or not.
Yes, despite the smiley-spam.
Trump’s voters are so unhinged that it has become almost impossible to distinguish sarcasm from their real thoughts. Poe’s law n shit
i take comfort in knowing that most of the time it’s going to be sarcasm, since (in my experience) there are very few trump supporters on lemmy. and the few trump supporters that i’ve seen don’t tend to last.
We didn't get the Bell Riots but maybe we'll get a WWIII.
Still have my fingers crossed for Irish Reunification this year.
lol within a year or 2024?
I havent heard a peep a... oh its a star trek thing gotcha
Maybe Trek was just a few years off on the Bell Riots
I would hedge my bets for now. Alternative scenario: The Saudis throw another party for Trump, make some business deals in exchange for reigning in Israel. The House of Al Saud of course doesn't care about Palestinians but their people do and a party and some business is a low price to pay to be celebrated by your subjects.
When it comes to Russia, Trump may realise that Putin way overplayed his hand, but that's balanced by animosity towards Zelensky. OTOH, I mean, business deals. Don't underestimate Ukraine when it comes to being smooth operators. They can sell NASA/SpaceX rocket engines made from Russian war reparations titanium.
Thing is: Trump is highly neurotic and thus, while not necessarily predictable, highly manipulatable if you know what you're doing. Only have to blow the right smoke up his ass.
Just have to be the last one to blow any smoke up there.
Blech.. this honestly seems more likely to me now, plus it can be used as propaganda to "prove" that he did something about genocide, to keep people voting red...
Fucking DUH, god damn.
No no guys, Harris was the one that supports the Palestinian genocide, not Trump!
Fucking idiot tankies.
Bud, they both support it. The difference is that Republicans don't pretend to care about stuff like this.
No, the difference is the extent of which they will enable genocide. And I'm not just taking about Gaza.
It's a massive fucking difference.
What limits are being imposed on them currently? They're already flattening Gaza, attacking UN outposts, and invading other countries and this is all with our warplanes, bombs and tax dollars.
Guess were all in on genocides rather than pretending were not enabling it and hoping it sorts itself out, sorry.
I can't convince ~74,000,000 morons to change their mind. ¯\(ツ)/¯
I mean… there can’t be an ongoing genocide if they are all dead taps temple
(God I hate this planet now…)
crazy to think that trump might do exactly what he said he was going to do. how could we, the voters, have predicted this?
For everyone not aware, given everything else that's going on—yes, that's world war
That should put paid to the myth that Trump is 'the antidote to all the wars'.
I always thought that the argument 'no wars were started during his presidency' was bullshit.
Trump started plenty of wars https://youtu.be/QQYFVEka3fA
This is exactly what I was saying months ago. And it's absolutely going to happen now. The entire region is going to plunge into chaotic war, and Putin couldn't be happier.
Here's the other side that was "just as bad."
ML are like “oh, maybe Joe wasn’t so bad”
Haha, nah, they never cared about genocide.
No leftist thinks "Joe wasn't that bad". On his watch Israel has killed an estimated almost 200,000 people (using more accurate figures by the Lancet and people on the wrong since their health center basically can't count anymore since they don't have the infrastructure), started their initiation of the general's plan starving out Northern Gaza, made everyone but a doctor flee the last hospital in Northern Gaza, start taking over West Bank, killed a record number of journalists in any conflict ever, kill the people they were negotiating with multiple times, and let them start a war with Lebanon and Iran. Oh and also sent backup to Yemen and put troops in Israel to protect them from retribution since apparently Israel is the only country allowed to defend themselves. Trump will do the same thing, but just talk about it more. It'll be tough for him to reach those heights, even if he sends more troops in, it'll just be continuing the logical next step of what Biden was doing.
It’s gonna get rough(er) in Gaza
Oh my goodness, those free Palestine protests are really going to step up in the U.S. !
Just kidding, they’re done, mission accomplished. They were never about Gaza, just about disenfranchising Democrats as part of social engineering to ensure a Trump win.
Let me ask you this, dear concerned protesters: Who was the protest leadership? I don’t mean the local organizer. Who was directing the protests at the national level? I sure as shit don’t know.
Common decency and morality, maybe?
Fee Palestine protests aren't new.
“Common decency and morality” just got a vindictive, hateful pos elected. The Gaza protest emphasis on Biden or Harris but never, NEVER on the Republican lead Congress that votes on foreign aid is rather telling.
So no real change from Biden or Harris then?
Yes, apart from the blank check part and Trump telling Netanyahu to "finish the job" on national TV, no real change at all.
Oh, and also the impending genocides of brown and queer people, but I was told before the election that those weren't important and/or wouldn't happen.
Biden and Harris was/is still finishing the job. Trump may have said it out loud, but it's happening right now.
Harris abandoned queers, brown people, and the entire progressive side of the party and needed to pay the consequences.
I hope those right wing votes they courted were worth their efforts
Ah, another new excuse to avoid any responsibility. "It doesn't matter that I didn't vote for Harris because it will be just as bad in Gaza either way."
Anything to help you sleep at night.
No, the queer community, brown people, disabled people, etc will now pay the consequences. gg
This brown queer person says that Harris was the wrong person for the job, we have our own agency and don't need liberals to speak on our behalf. We're capable of speaking for ourselves. Many Brown queer people that I'm familiar with felt the same and voted accordingly
Well, they know who you are, and you better believe that you are on several of their lists. So hopefully you will be able to take solace in the fact that you "took the high road" during the last real election this country will ever have, when you're huddled up in some white person's basement, hiding from the government.
So brave of you to try and come white knight for us as our protector. What would we do without white CIS people to guide us?
If you can't even do the most basic thing to help push the tiniest bit to prevent the worst from happening to you, why would anyone else care?
Is that what you took away from that comment?
Learn some fucking history, because it's repeating.
None of that changes whether you will be among the primary groups to pay the consequences, which is all I said.
They were courting anyone from the political spectrum who was still a constitutionalist, lefties included, to unite against whatever trump's mood happens to be that day.
What in the past 13 months has made you believe that Biden is not giving Israel a blank check to what they want and just finish the job?
The fact that it hasn't happened?
It is happening. Look at what they're doing in Northern Gaza. Look at the townhalls they have where they openly talk about settling it once they wipe out that entire area. And you think it's going to stop there? Look at them banning the UNRWA and look at how they now passed a new law aimed at deporting anyone related to "terrorists". Look at how they're now starting to demolish homes in the West Bank too.
It's fucking happening already. What are you waiting for to say that Biden is supporting it? For Israel to finish the fucking job?
Israel has not been given a blank check from the U.S. It simply hasn't. I'm not sure why you're trying to claim otherwise.
I just gave you the fucking reasons. Why don't you give me why you think they haven't?
Because congress allocated a specific amount of money for arms sales to Israel. This isn't a secret.
What are you even trying to say? That because there's a number on a sales package that can be renewed on a whim that this means Biden isn't giving them whatever they want? Keep in mind that the DOJ are sitting on 500 documented cases of Israel using American weapons to commit war crimes. Biden is not fucking stopping them in the slightest. The only difference between them is that Trump just openly says it.
I don't think you understand what 'blank check' means.
It could be worse than a blank check. Quid pro quo all over again.
No I really do. You just don't want to equate the 2 people on this topic. The genocide is happening as we speak. It's been happening for a year and everytime Israel needs more money, weapons, or defence systems. Biden is more than happy to oblige. He's gotten more money from pro-Israel lobbyists than any other Senator in history. Both are being paid to provide unconditional and unlimited support to Israel.
This is the last time you get to imply that I am denying a genocide is happening.
Put the same amount of bodies on both tracks and it would be accurate.
How so? Trump is about to kick things up to 11
And what level would you say it's at currently?
Realistically: Less than 11.
Armchair: 3 or 4.
Trump's people seem eager to turn this into an open regional conflict with direct US action and boots on the ground. Once that happens we are cruising towards a world war, and no one will even be thinking of Gaza any more.
Edit to be clear: I'm not minimizing what's happening in gaza. It's terrible. But it can get a whole lot worse.
I'm not trying to come across as rude....but have you been living under a rock? How on earth is what's going on currently a 3 or a 4? There's literally an extermination campaign in Northern Gaza where Israel is executing everyone they see and routinely attacking the only functioning hospital left. And I'm saying function VERY loosely. Not to mention all the attacks they do kn the rest of Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, or the regional escalations with Iran.
It's already at 11.
The implication is that 11 is as bad as it gets. Unless you're like a hundred, you've never seen 11. It can get so so worse.
Yes, people are dying. And it's horrible. But acting as though this is the worst it's ever been or will ever be is laughable.
Israel is currently committing a genocide in Gaza with zero intention of stopping. Where do you go to be worse than genocide?
A genocide and a war with another country, which they'd probably like to turn into a genocide as well?
There's also a whole other population of Palestinians they've barely started genociding. Are you saying it'd be no worse if they started killing off people in the West Bank in the same way?
They've started incursions and attacks into the West Bank already. And they're already invading Lebanon with regular strikes on Syria. They've also repeatedly escalated the conflict with Iran as well. All you say that will happen under Trump has already been happening under Biden.
So you're saying it can get worse?
Yeah it's about to go region wide. Many 10s of millions more will be in active combat zones. What we have now is just a primer.
Edit As a highwater, Israel flirts with nuking Iran if they become nuclear capable.
The actions that led to it becoming region wide happened under the Biden administration. The ongoing genocide is happening under the Biden administration. Biden gave Israel virtually unlimited arms and funding to perform all these actions. The middle east is a powder keg right now and whether or not Trump won would have been irrelevant. It's about to blow.
Bidens admin has tried to maintain the status quo. They wish things could go back to say, 2019 status or so. It's still shitty, it's still unjust for Palestine's innocent, but there isn't a full world war happening.
Trump's team wants to get actively involved. They want to go far beyond the status quo. They don't think what is happening today is enough. They want open war with Iran and it's satellites. They want Palestine depopulated and to rebuild vacation condos in its place.
I get it you think it's really bad now. I agree.
But we are about to get someone actively hoping to make it worse. More, more, more.
We stopped being status quo months ago. This is not normal. Biden had the power to make it go back to normal with a single phone call. Israel is America's proxy, not the other way around.
The genocide in Gaza is currently underway. So what's worse than a genocide? I'm honestly asking here. How does it get worse than this? Keep in mind there's also the war with Lebanon and the escalations with Iran to talk about as well.
A wider genocide. A nuclear war. American soldiers actively involved, essentially another iraq war. A US administration not seeking the relative calm of the past but a 2025 with NO Palestine, no Iran, no Yemen.
Incorrect