Maybe I would receive your arguments with more grace if it wasn’t laced with personal judgements.

If we have so little influence over Israel than that undermines your argument that we’re getting “power coupons” in return. I’m not even debating you on the morality of Kissinger, I’m meeting you where you stand: if we don’t exercise our influence then we are going to lose it (and Kissinger agrees with me on that at least)

The argument is that we’re not using our strongest influence by virtue of not threatening to withhold arms (even though it would be in US interest to do so to preserve influence in the region). I am not arguing that the US controls Israel like some vassal state.

If the US has no influence over Israel in regards to this conflict than that sounds like a critical policy failure and a huge geopolitical risk.

Edit: I’m curious what potential Israel allies you speak of that are not aligned with the US? Our own allies are distancing themselves from this clusterfuck.

If you don’t see how Israel is undermining America’s soft power then idk what to say.

You talk about how foreign policy is about power and influence - I am saying Biden doesn’t understand how influence works as evidence by him not using his power to influence Israeli policy even though it is leading to a more volatile middle east and lower approval ratings at home. In other words, he is undermining his own influence. But go on and tell us how we’re children for expecting more.

I think their goal is to displace 90% into Egypt and kill the rest. Still genocide.

Yeah, we totally reined in their terror by giving them everything they wanted. Biden thinks if he is nice enough they will return in kind. He tends to use the same tactic when negotiating with Republicans 🤦‍♂️

What’s wrong with us dunking on dumb takes like this one?

It’s a myth that corporations are job creators. Their very premise is that they can do the same job for less because they have fewer labor costs.

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Communism is when government does something. Anarchism is when you do fuck all to protect yourself.

Is chatGPT any good at fixing Ubuntu problems?