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Nigeria has gotten billions of dollars in U.S. security assistance, even as its counterterrorism campaign has a massive civilian death toll.

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[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

Almost like for the last 6 months Biden has been showing the world that he's a fucking doormat when it comes to genocide.

trump and Biden both make our country a joke, just in different ways.

[-] Pohl@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

This is pretty interesting. Americans seem to be convinced that their president is the king of earth and they can, with a wave of their finger change anything. This is total bullshit

Presidential power inside the country is extremely limited by the constitution and they rarely have an opportunity to “just do what they said they were going to do”.

Outside our borders… it’s so fucking complicated that no one person really understands the global web of power and influence. At the bottom of the pyramid though, always force of arms. If America is willing to fight you, then you do what they say.

So… should we start a war in every place on earth that genocide is occurring? Really channel our inner dick Cheney and waste life and treasure in regime changes? Should we really cede all power in the Middle East to Iran so that we can stop our (fucking asshole of an) ally Israel from using those weapons on a highly immoral war? Should we start WWIII with china to save the Uighurs? How many African nations should we currently be bombing?

Which of those wars do you want to fight? Have you enlisted yet? What are you waiting for?

[-] metaldream@sopuli.xyz 32 points 6 months ago

We just want the US to stop giving Israel money and weapons. How is that so fucking hard to understand?

[-] livus@kbin.social 4 points 6 months ago

We also want it to stop obsessively protecting it from the UN and international law.

The US is currently trying to lobby the ICC in Netanyahu's favour.

[-] Pohl@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago

Me too. Shame is that doing that would empower Iran, which isn’t great. It’s all tough choices and I’m pretty tired of listening to idiots pretend they have all the answers.

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

Who cares about Iran

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

No one is saying Iran needs zero foils to counter and control them, you assuming dingdong.

We just want the US funded foil to not also be committing a genocide. The fact you conflate, "no genocide" with "eliminate Israel" shows that you are not capable of honestly engaging on this topic.

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