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No these tyrants survive because of realpolitik.

And Joe Biden has been the first openly hostile/critical president of KSA, while Trump said he didn't know who murdered the American citizen Jamal khashoggi[1] despite clear evidence and information about it, all due to him wanting the business with KSA to continue.

[1]https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/26/why-intel...

Actually Biden is worse on Saudi than Trump.

Mainly because when Trump was in power the democrats and media would keep pressure on Trump. Whereas now, as a genocide is happening the media isn't providing as much pressure as it would of Trump was doing it.

Also no need to regurgitate old irrelevant news, the complete 180 from Biden is the biggest slap in the face for people who were fighting for gender/human/civil rights.

Also, Biden is yet to go after Kushner for that $2bn bribe/corruption payment.

Realpolitik is a meme used to excuse bad behaviour.

Sorry but, this is just flailing your arms around hoping to hit something, Trump didn't care one bit what the opposition nor the media said about him, and maybe just maybe the media isn't as critical of Biden because he isn't as divisive as Trump was.

And what genocide would that be?

>Also, Biden is yet to go after Kushner for that $2bn bribe/corruption payment

First of all not Biden's job to prosecute anyone and secondly they are trying to investigate him but Republicans are the ones trying to stall it[1]

>Realpolitik is a meme used to excuse bad behaviour.

The only excuse is people that say this, are unfortunately the ones who reject reality and substitute ot for their own.

[1]https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/2024/03/21/jared-ku...

Wow a mythbusters fan and a genocide denier. Very cool. Very Realpolitik.

It's not Biden, it's part of the 90% of American policy which will never change no matter who the President is.

True. Well if Americans aren't in control over their government then nothing in the world will get better.

Looks like nowadays no one in US does really care about other countries, even US allies.

6 months ago they stopped sending limited amount of weapons to Ukraine.

Current foreign policy of USA clearly sends a message that other countries can do anything they want to both their citizens and their neighbors.

To be clear that’s Republicans. Democrats overwhelmingly support military aid to Ukraine. Republicans are split (at best) on the issue.

Israel-Gaza is a more complicated breakdown for sure, but it’s also a much more complicated conflict.

Aren't democrats holding the office and keep not sending efficient weapons? Only bare minimum which cannot significantly affect battlefield.

Morocco received few hundred US tanks recently. Do they fight for survival?

Democrats hold the presidency, but not the congress. If congress decides do thwart the president on an issue, then there is very little the president can do. Basically the president has the power to veto something that congress wants to do, but has virtually no power to compel congress to do something it doesn't want to do.

Uh no. Republicans control the House which is enough to prevent even $1 from being spent or sent anywhere.

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/What-are-some-yxB.yA2.SzS7M...

There’s not some big mystery here. Democrats are proposing bill after bill after bill, and republicans are loudly and proudly blocking them.

Is it the House who refused to send 20+ years old heavy weapons to Ukraine since 2022?

We did send huge amounts of aid in 2022, including 38 HIMARS, 2,000 Stingers, 100,000 anti-armor systems, 250 artillery guns, 9,000 anti-tank missiles, and 35,000 small arms.

Then Republicans put a hard right Christian theocrat, who’s totally captured by the hard-right wing of the party, in charge of the House and everything has stalled.

Yes, huge amount of light weapons, short range. I've specifically mentioned heavy weapons. It is hard to fight against heavy weapons with light one, isn't it?

No, what we’re finding is actually quite the opposite. High volumes of light weapons is not only enough, but preferable on the modern battlefield even fighting against heavy weapons.

What specific weapon systems would you like to see sent to Ukraine?

And what bearing does this have on where blame should land for the US turning its back on Ukraine?

I wasn’t aware that outside a great movie that the USA was the world police.

Russia is evil for invading Ukraine, which is a non EU, non NATO nation.

Europeans should be the one fighting for freedom in Europe not the Americans.

Didn't the US president Clinton sign the security assurances to Ukraine in exchange to their nukes?

And btw, Americans are not fighting there. Sending weapons to Ukraine creates new working place in USA while weaken army of their enemy. It is obvious win-win for USA.

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