r/neoliberal Oct 08 '24

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u/Broad_Procedure Oct 08 '24

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u/captmonkey Henry George Oct 08 '24

This whole article makes Biden and his administration sound cool as fuck. Why isn't this the stuff we're seeing in the news? When Russia was considering using tactical nukes in Ukraine:

The book recounts a tense phone call between Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his Russian counterpart in October 2022.

“If you did this, all the restraints that we have been operating under in Ukraine would be reconsidered,” Austin said to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, according to Woodward. “This would isolate Russia on the world stage to a degree you Russians cannot fully appreciate.”

“I don’t take kindly to being threatened,” Shoigu responded.

“Mr. Minister,” Austin said, according to Woodward, “I am the leader of the most powerful military in the history of the world. I don’t make threats.”

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u/Broad_Procedure Oct 08 '24

I mean it also shows that the Biden approach to getting a ceasefire is asking Netanyahu "please stop escalating the situation over there and start negotiating" and then getting promptly ignored.

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u/SharkSymphony Voltaire Oct 08 '24

The next step, where we stop supporting Israel militarily, is a broken alliance. Dang straight we should be doing everything we can to avoid that. It would be a disaster both home and abroad.

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u/Daddy_Macron Emily Oster Oct 08 '24

The next step, where we stop supporting Israel militarily, is a broken alliance.

An alliance goes both ways. The Israeli government giving the US government the middle finger and ignoring their reasonable requests does not make for a good alliance. As far as I'm concerned, the alliance has already been broken by the Israeli side first.

It would be a disaster both home and abroad.

It would be a disaster for Israel, not the US. They should do well to remember that the next time they try to humiliate a Democratic US President.

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u/nasweth World Bank Oct 08 '24

There's nothing reasonable about telling Israel to simply let Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran attack them without consequences.

This is a strawman, no one is telling Israel this.