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@CulturedDinosaurfrom New York submitted…3 days3D
When big questions about American foreign policy collide with an election, it’s rarely good news for a sitting president.Like many leaders before him, US President Joe Biden has had some of these questions thrust on him, such as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Some have their origins in past administrations, such as the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Most are a mixture of both, such as Israel’s retaliation against Gaza and the role of Iran.Many analysts trace the start of Biden’s foreign policy troubles to what is often described as the “botched” American withdrawal from Afghanistan. In isolation, and despite the entirely avoidable tragedy that has unfolded there, Afghanistan alone is unlikely to have made an electoral impact beyond the hand-wringing of some political pundits.As with Vietnam, today’s Democratic Party is riven by division over the Biden administration’s response to Gaza. In the Michigan state primary in February, more than 100,000 Democrats voted “uncommitted” as part of a co-ordinated campaign to send a message to Biden, demanding he do more to stop the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. In the 2020 election, Biden won Michigan by just over 150,000 votes.The risk for Biden is that he has not anticipated just how much his own foreign policy might undermine that message and the strength of his personal appeal.Polling suggests around two-thirds of Americans support an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Biden’s political inability and personal unwillingness to distance the United States from Israel, and his administration’s ongoing refusal to put conditions on military aid, is breaking apart the loose voting coalition that brought him to power. He will need this coalition to hold, and to turn out to vote, if he is to win re-election.
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If Biden loses the November election, it may be because of Pro-Palestinian protesters at the democratic convention in Ch…
@C0nsensu5Samantha from California submitted…3 days3D
Section 702 has supplied extraordinary insight into foreign dangers, including military threats, theft of American trade secrets, terrorism, hacking and fentanyl trafficking. In 2022 intelligence from 702 helped the government find and kill the Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri, one of the terrorists responsible…
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I'm sure this is the same logic China's CCP uses to justify their modern police state.
@ISIDEWITH submitted…22hrs22H
The United States last week secretly shipped a new long-range missile system to Ukraine, and Ukrainian forces immediately used the weapons to attack a Russian military airfield in Crimea last Wednesday and Russian troops in the country’s southeast overnight on Tuesday, according to a senior U.S. official.The missiles can reach deeper into occupied Ukraine, including Crimea, a hub of Russian air and ground forces, and supply nodes for Moscow’s forces in the country’s southeast.In a major policy shift, President Biden secretly approved the decision to send more than 100 of the longer-range missiles in mid-February.Administration officials kept the shipment secret to avoid tipping off the Russians.
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Great we find this out one day after the Senate passed the new aid bill.
@ISIDEWITH submitted…2 days2D
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Bernie Sanders wants to make clear that he strongly supports dumping another $61 billion into Ukraine, and he strongly s…
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One huge problem is that contemporary, technological warfare (except for minor complications like drones on air and wate…
@ISIDEWITH submitted…3hrs3H
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You mean, open to trump lies
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Israel has the capacity to pinpoint a target from several countries away, as in the precise bombing of the Hamas leader…
@ISIDEWITH submitted…3 days3D
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Any easy solution to this? Move all of the homeless encampments where the judges live.......let's see how this might imp…
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If you are American your money is paying for this -- an extra $28 billion that will help this happens more and more.
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Asked why some Senate Republicans were slow to support aid for Kyiv, McConnell cited the “demonization of Ukraine” by Tu…
Of all Biden's crazy stories, New Guinea cannibals' eating his uncle is actually the most plausible.
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@ISIDEWITH submitted…23hrs23H
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I thought Biden's foreign policy experience would produce a safer less chaotic world.
@ISIDEWITH submitted…3mins3m
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So what was the $61 billion for?
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It does not seem to me that protesters are open to negotiate and to dialogue. If they want to protest, do so outside th…
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Sounds like what Hamas did to Jews in southern Israel on 10/7.
@ISIDEWITH submitted…16hrs16H
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The United States is begging China to stop trade with Russia after launching a campaign to ban TikTok and other Chinese…
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We are poorer in Europe, but certainly not less happy.
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The US military budget is roughly equivalent to the next 9 largest military budgets combined, and most of those are our…
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The “horrific” scenes at the protest that CNN is reporting about are peaceful anti-war protesters, including many Jewish…
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RFK Jr. mostly appeals to Centrists and Libertarians, that would vote for Trump in a head-to-head with Biden.
