r/neoliberal • u/Broad_Procedure • Oct 08 '24

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u/TheFaithlessFaithful United Nations Oct 08 '24

If we stop sending weapons we give up our leverage.

What has our leverage done?

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u/ScruffleKun Oct 08 '24

"Palestine" is discussed in present tense rather than past tense.

Israel is an American client state, rather than a Chinese/Indian client state.

Taiwan can see that the US will arm allies in conflicts.

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u/TheFaithlessFaithful United Nations Oct 08 '24 edited Oct 08 '24

"Palestine" is discussed in present tense rather than past tense.

Sorry coming back here, I'm not sure I understood this on first read now that I reread it and want to clarify.

Are you saying that if not for US influence, Israel would've done outright genocide of Palestinians?

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u/HexagonalClosePacked Oct 08 '24

"They want to commit genocide, so we have to keep giving them bigger and better military hardware with fewer and fewer strings attached" is a hell of a take, isn't it?

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u/TheFaithlessFaithful United Nations Oct 08 '24

I initially read "We are talking about Palestine in the present tense rather than the past" in terms of "A two state solution is still being talked about as a realistic possibility," but I think he didn't mean it that way....