06-27-2024, 01:04 PM
(06-26-2024, 02:23 PM)Dill Wrote: Yo, thanks for the response, H-Dog, but this doesn't sound right I'm wondering what your sources are.
What money of ours did Iran take? How are they dragging us into a war?
So far as I know, Israel is not being attacked with money we gave Iran. Who says it is?
Israel has been our most expensive "ally." Since 1980 we've give them over 3 billion a year in assistance, far more than anyone else. And we give Egypt over 2 billion a year to not attack Israel. This aid is leverage which could have forced Israel to the negotiating table with the PLO/PA long before 2005, when the stage was set for a succession of Gaza wars. Now we are stuck supplying an aggressor nation as it drops 2,000 lib bombs on civilians and blocks aid to starving children. We protected them from an Iranian drone attack which Israel provoked. This makes the US a target too. What do we receive in return, if our most expensive ally pursues policies which we don't agree with and which make us targets too?
Praising authoritarian leaders like Putin, Erdogan, MBS, Xi and Kim, while ignoring or denigrating democratic allies and alliances
is not sending a "pretty simple message." Quite the opposite.
The dictators love to see a divided US falling into the hands of an autocrat who understands them and thinks similarly. Our democratic allies wonder how
stable an ally the US is. When Trump, on an international stage, sides with Putin over US intel agencies, the message sent is that the US president can be
played by a dictator, leader of NATO's prime adversary. That has to send a shudder through all the other countries' intel agencies who cooperate with us.
Same when the US pulls together a massive international agreement, bringing Russia, China, Iran, Britain, Germany, France and the EU all to the same table in an agreement which worked as intended when adopted, to the advantage of all parties. The Iran Deal was one of the most amazing feats of diplomacy in US history, and then Trump just breaks it. What message doe that send? It's not just a green light to Teheran's nuclear program and thumb in the eye of our allies. It's the US destroying its own credibility and power to get even the most dangerous and disruptive players to sit down and play nice. And it makes the world more costly for the US, not cheaper. I't not "Making America Great Again" for sure.
Israel is not an aggressor nation. Your continued attempts to gaslight people into believing that doesn't make it a fact.
