A string of security, logistical and weather problems has battered the plan to deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid to Gaza through a U.S. military-built pier.
We wasted months not giving them aid to build this pier…
It cost 320 million dollars, and lasted a fucking week.
And Palestinians are still starving to death.
I legitimately don’t know if it being such a giant waste of time and money was intentional.
With the shit Biden openly says, it’s hard to believe there’s not worse shit he’s managing not to say. If not, isn’t saying whatever horrible pro genocide shit that pops into your head one of the reasons trump is bad?
trump is obviously worse, but running a campaign on that makes a genocide ok won’t get a Dem in office.
Congress voted in favor of munitions aid. The State Department reported inconclusive evidence of war crime. It would be unprecedented for Biden to alter existing contracts without support from one of these branches, and would likely be challenged in the Judiciary Branch in the form of an impeachment hearing for bad faith or personal agenda.
We pay tens of trillions of dollars annually for the most informed State Department in the world. POTUS doesn’t decide based on information outside of our own intelligence, not news, the UN, the ICC, or the ICJ. Biden needs to pressure Blinken for a more thorough investigation, including the most recent “accidents” in civilian occupied areas, to provide a concrete platform for amendment or withdrawal of support.
TL;DR: POTUS doesn’t make decisions on international affairs based on polls.
I legitimately don’t know if it being such a giant waste of time and money was intentional
It was either that or colossally incompetent.
Given that it had to go through several rounds of approval before being announced and every independent expert pointed out that it would be much less effective in itself than delivering aid by truck while doing nothing to keep the IDF from controlling it, that’s highly unlikely, though.
It’s a very transparent PR stunt that they almost certainly knew wouldn’t make a dent in the deliberately induced starvation.
We wasted months not giving them aid to build this pier…
It cost 320 million dollars, and lasted a fucking week.
And Palestinians are still starving to death.
I legitimately don’t know if it being such a giant waste of time and money was intentional.
With the shit Biden openly says, it’s hard to believe there’s not worse shit he’s managing not to say. If not, isn’t saying whatever horrible pro genocide shit that pops into your head one of the reasons trump is bad?
trump is obviously worse, but running a campaign on that makes a genocide ok won’t get a Dem in office.
Congress voted in favor of munitions aid. The State Department reported inconclusive evidence of war crime. It would be unprecedented for Biden to alter existing contracts without support from one of these branches, and would likely be challenged in the Judiciary Branch in the form of an impeachment hearing for bad faith or personal agenda.
We pay tens of trillions of dollars annually for the most informed State Department in the world. POTUS doesn’t decide based on information outside of our own intelligence, not news, the UN, the ICC, or the ICJ. Biden needs to pressure Blinken for a more thorough investigation, including the most recent “accidents” in civilian occupied areas, to provide a concrete platform for amendment or withdrawal of support.
TL;DR: POTUS doesn’t make decisions on international affairs based on polls.
The money wasn’t wasted, it went directly where it was intended for. The pockets of multi billionaire defense contractors.
It was either that or colossally incompetent.
Given that it had to go through several rounds of approval before being announced and every independent expert pointed out that it would be much less effective in itself than delivering aid by truck while doing nothing to keep the IDF from controlling it, that’s highly unlikely, though.
It’s a very transparent PR stunt that they almost certainly knew wouldn’t make a dent in the deliberately induced starvation.