Israel doesn’t need our support. Ukraine does. Easy choice.
Palestine needs our support though.
Removing funding from israel will indirectly support palestine, because then israel will stop pissing away US tax dollars on chemical weapons
Palestine isn’t getting our support, and these current events will not change that at all.
Why what’s the difference
Israel’s fighting a small population in a small territory.
Ukraine is fighting the largest country in the world by land mass, with more soldiers than there are Palestinians. And they’re a nuclear power, too.
Israel has also been heavily funded and armed for decades
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What kinda non-sequitur is that?
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Ukraine hasn’t been expanding territory and oppressing Russians - they are solidly the victim whereas the Israel / Palestine situation is a lot more nuanced
The first victim in war is the truth
-Alfred E Newman
Israel is a healthier economy and better prepared military fighting a smaller weaker enemy. Ukraine is in worse shape and could use help.
I lack the words, so I have used interpretive meming instead.
Christ what resolution was that image? 8k?! Why was it 6MB? I got to watch that load in like dial up, 1 line at a time. I finished the punchline before an elbow even appeared on my screen
Because its a virus now you are infected. If you want to save your computer you have to throw it in the lake
Will any lake do? Or is there a specific lake that IT professionals prefer?
The wet one
There really should be an option to hide these images by default.
Can’t remember if it was an option I clicked but I don’t see them, just the url.
@Krauerking for those of us who don’t click on image links, what is it an image of?
The window shopping boyfriend and upset girlfriend but the US being excited for the new hotness that is Israel instead of the slow burn Ukraine.
All in a resolution of that image that allows me to count the fricking beard hairs on the guy and see the loose thread at his collar. It’s like they went and got the original from Shutterstock to make the meme.
@Krauerking thanks! I don’t think I’ve ever seen that thing in anything other than low res, this is pretty funny.
Yeah I wouldn’t think it came in 2500x1667 pixels mostly cause I don’t think that’s a normal image size
@Krauerking I’m dying. @Flyberius are you the original photographer or something? This is kind of intriguing.
Me living in a (semi-)civilized nation which actually has access to high speed internet
“Stretching its ability to support Ukraine”…for now.
The problem isn’t that we can’t do both because we certainly can, the problem is that we’re running out of money to do it UNDER CURRENT APPROPRIATIONS BILLS.
Congress will eventually return to session and more appropriations bills will pass; the only questions are how much and how quickly it will be done.
The paper tiger is beginning to shred. Hopefully.
The US, famous for just rolling over. You guys are on more copium than imperial japan and it’s hilarious.
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The US has a lot of criticism that can be leveled at it, but “paper tiger” certainly isn’t one.
Literally the Vietnamese called the US a paper tiger and then kicked the US’ ass.
If what the US did to Vietnam and Cambodia over 20+ years is a “paper tiger” then uh, I don’t think a real tiger exists.
Do genocide and fail at winning wars against relatively small impoverished nations?
I guess if killing 1million+ Vietnamese is something a “paper tiger” does sure the US is a “paper tiger.”
Yes. This isn’t call of duty where the goal is to kill as many people as possible. The US got its ass kicked.
Yes I get it. The US lost the Vietnam war. The issue is that a “paper tiger” doesn’t kill 1million+ people. Losing a war doesn’t mean you are a paper tiger.
Is Hamas also a paper tiger? Russia? Israel?
what’s saigon called
So paper tiger’s kill 1million+ people and then someone else’s capital city is renamed? Is the US the only “paper tiger” to ever exist? I figured the expression would be much older then the US.
Why do you need to support Israel at all beyond the amount that was previously being done? They’re not in an actual war and they’re not having to defend against an invasion like Ukraine is.
Better start a bidding war for boom boom rations, or scale back the secret wars in the global South. Damn making the $Trillion military pick and choose.
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Did they really or you’re just speculating?
Geopolitically speaking, you should completely pull out of Israel. Seriously, do it. Pull all funding from Israel.
Why is Israel, who is hardly the victim in their conflict and strangely very well funded by US taxpayers ,being conflated with Ukraine, who is being invaded by a dictatorship?
The only constant between those two is the fascism.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The White House said it was “running out of runway” on supporting both Ukraine and Israel as US Republican lawmakers warned they would protest any funding request for military aid from the Biden administration for the two crisis-hit nations.
Mr Kirby was answering a question at a daily briefing on the administration meeting the immediate needs of Ukraine and Israel along with the continuing fight to elect a House Speaker.
The National Security Council coordinator also said the House Speaker position was critical in terms of bringing legislation to the floor and moving things forward.
The White House has been considering a budget request tying money for these two conflicts together to increase the chances that the heavily-debated assistance for Ukraine will be approved.
He told Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the US will send more military assistance to help Israel fight Hamas.
The US is already rushing munitions and military equipment to Israel and has deployed a carrier strike group to the eastern Mediterranean as deterrence.
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Israel is like David and Goliath, but this time Goliath wins.
While there is no evidence to support it, some experts are pointing at Putin’s lukewarm response after the attack, and the fact that this division of efforts is immensely helpful to his invasion in Ukraine, and are wondering if he worked with Iran to help arm and plan this attack by Hamas.
So, in other words, “stretching its ability to support Ukraine” was the whole point.
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4250708-putins-fingerprints-are-on-hamas/
I too enjoy consuming conspiracy theories dressed up as news
