Thursday 30 May 2024

Biden's Rapidly Disappearing Red Line

The problem with drawing a red line is when the red line is danced all over you either have to do something or look a complete fool and back down and Joe Biden has decided to look a fool and frantically rub out the line then actually do something to stop the Israeli genocide going on courtesy of the weapons he has provided.
Just over two weeks ago, President Biden told the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, not to go into Rafah and if he did: I'm not supplying the weapons' but Bibi not only went into Rafah, his military has been slaughtering Palestinians whether they were retreating for yet another apparent safe place or living in tents and used the American weapons to do it.
So all eyes on Rafah and Biden and we waited to see the response, would Biden withdraw the weapons? Stop funding the genocide? Join in the rtest of the world calling for an immediate ceasefire? What he did was change the definition of exactly what 'going into Rafah' meant.
Biden's security advisor told us about the increasingly elastic red line meant that there 'was no mathematical formula for working out when it had been crossed' and they would be judging it on whether there is a lot of death and destruction or if it is more precise and proportional.
Biden must have been happy with that as long as Israeli didn't do the usual Israeli thing and kill large numbers in the offensive it would be fine, unfortunately, the Israeli's did just that and days later 50 Palestinians are killed in an attack on a displaced people's camp in Rafah which Israel said 'oops, unfortunate accident' and added yet another investigation to the list.
At this point Biden must have sat in the Oval Office and wondered run the words 'Precise and proportional' and 'a lot of death and destruction' through his mind and came up with the idea that this STILL didn't cross his red line so that makes it ok to carry on providing the military aid.
As the call for Israel to be sanctioned for Genocide at the ICC and ICJ grow even louder and more and more nations are sidestepping America and Israel and recognising Palestine, Biden is looking more and more out of step and must be concerned that the 1948 Genocide Convention, outlines that complicity in genocide is a punishable act, and as he is continuing to give military and financial support to the very nation slaughtering large numbers of civilians using the weapons he provided them with to do, he is complicit up to his eyeballs and hopefully he wont get his second term but then the problem is that the other guy is even more of an arse in making America Israel's bitch.

4 comments:

Liber - Latin for "The Free One" said...

biden is president, not king. He has to be re-elected to remain in power.

He tried to appease the far left jewish racists and the few pro-hamas supporters in the US by playing tough with Israel. Not smart. Now he has to decide who he will get more votes from, the far left racists that hate Israel, or Jewish Americans and the bulk of Americans that understand that gazans brought this on themselves when they elected and supported hamas.

if biden blocks Israel, he will lose his bid for re-election... what do you think he will do?

Liber - Latin for "The Free One" said...

i'm glad eu nations are side-stepping the us, and don't care about the rest either.

serious global change was initiated when the ussr collapsed circa 1991. it was the beginning of the US no longer having to prop up and defend europe. it took 30 years to become significant, but the day has arrived that the US no longer needs to keep russia at bay by using europe.

further, now that russia has fallen on their sword in ukraine and dramatically weakened their army (some geopolitical sources say poland has a stronger army at the moment, if only temporary) there is no need for the US to continue to subsidize europe, defend europe, and insure europe has adequate petroleum (middle east). you can do it for yourselves... but it is expensive as you will soon be reminded...

in many ways, europe is like an 18 year old that just graduated from public school. a multi-lingual pain in the ass. but now you are on your own. no more mommy and daddy (US) telling you what to do, but no more mommy and daddy wiping your nose, providing you with food, clothing, and shelter (aka no more free lunch)... so get out there and fix all the shit mommy and daddy broke!!

ps - you need petroleum for things other than fuel

Liber - Latin for "The Free One" said...

correction:

"i'm glad eu nations are side-stepping the us, and don't care about the rest either."

should be:

"i'm glad eu nations are side-stepping the US, and don't care about the rest either."

Liber - Latin for "The Free One" said...

if America is Israel's bitch, then the uk and europe are America's bitch... ouch