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- world@lemmy.world
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Roughly a week after Donald Trump started his second term as president, the U.S. military issued an order to three freight airlines operating out of Dover Air Force Base in Delaware and a U.S. base in Qatar: Stop 11 flights loaded with artillery shells and other weaponry and bound for Ukraine.
In a matter of hours, frantic questions reached Washington from Ukrainians in Kyiv and from officials in Poland, where the shipments were coordinated. Who had ordered the U.S. Transportation Command, known as TRANSCOM, to halt the flights? Was it a permanent pause on all aid? Or just some?
Top national security officials — in the White House, the Pentagon and the State Department — couldn’t provide answers. Within one week, flights were back in the air.
The verbal order originated from the office of Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, according to TRANSCOM records reviewed by Reuters.
I remember when the democrates chose the interests of a foreign apartheid state commiting genocide before the interests of their own voters.
We will get the exact same energy next election if you keep scapegoating voters.
no the United States together, both branches choose, yes the Democrats fucked up but they did not do so in isolation.
that’s the least pragmatic take I’ve ever heard, conditions in gaza have nothing but accelerated since Republicans took power, voting is not the only way to apply pressure.
I’d like you to take note of how you’re never critical of Republicans.
Congrats bro, the republicans suck. I expect the democrats to be the good guys, and good guys dont help genocide.
The main problem with republican voters is that they vote for whoever they are told to vote for, no matter what horrible things they did.
If all the democratic party has to offer is “genocide, status quo but we arent trump” then they deserve all the blame for what happened.
I voted for Kamala. I did it while gritting my teeth and there is something seriously wrong with that. I wont let a bunch of rubes scapegoat voters after the shitshow the dems orchestrated.
i understand where you’re coming from but what are your ideals worth if the execution only causes things to get worse for the very people you want to help?
please note i don’t mean you specifically but those that held their vote.
i understand being pissed at the Democrats. I will never say you should stop holding them accountable, just that holding your vote does way, WAY more damage than good
By consistently blaming voters, you are doing the opposite of holding them accountable.
Getting mad at anybody but them is a waste of energy and gives them the green light to give us the same exact platform next election.
I was saying to vote for Kamala anyways just like everyone else before the election. But now that its over and they lost, we have to demand change imo.
I’m not blaming voters but I am pointing out that it won’t work and it’s self defeating, what they do with that is their business
What the heck is a democrate? Is that like a crate of demolition goodies, or an act of demolishing and crating your enemies? I’m not sure your opinion can be taken seriously when you haven’t even seen their name spelled out enough to have that down pat
Edited the typo but yes, it would be like a crate of demolition goodies, if your chances of being elected was what you were trying to demolish.
Geopolitics isn’t so one-dimensional. The US has long-standing agreements with Israel for intelligence, tech, and weapons in the middle east, like it or not. That can’t just be unraveled at the drop of a hat without risking planetary stability.
Should the US not have put themselves in such a position in the 1950s? 100%. Should they have been more aggressive and quick on doing anything when the genocide started? Probably.
It wasn’t “the democrats” or “the republicans.” It was the US Federal Government as a whole. Choosing or abstaining a vote for a candidate solely on world events outside the US wouldn’t have fixed that in any universe.
Reality can’t be governed by aspiration, well, actually, I guess it can, because a bunch of idiots decided to hold back their vote that could have saved their own damn country, and look where the US is now, and now is only the beginning.
“Oh, I know, I don’t like that my current Federal Government isn’t being proactive world police in other countries even though I call out my nation for being proactive world police in other countries, so I’ll show them by not voting for a Presidential candidate. They’ll get my message…What do you mean a Genocidal Fascist Satan crew will win if I don’t vote? They’ll get my message! That’s unpossible! I couldn’t possibly be taking an action that will accelerate their genocide and lead to more genocide right in my home town?!”
Maybe too many people live in the world in their head instead of reality.
We also have very clear laws that specifically prohibit the sell of weapons to countries who plan to commit ethnic cleansing with them.
What your saying is low key gross tbh. If an ally is commiting genocide, the first thing that should happen is they simply stop being our ally, full stop.
If we were 90 years in the past and allied with Germany, would you be defending the holocaust? What if the holocaust continuing guarantees geopolitical stability?
It’s also laughable to talk about geopolitical stability when it involves warmongering Israel. They almost started a war with Iran which would have probably involved nukes, and are occupying and pissing off essentially all their neighbors.