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The United States has announced the approval of the sale of more than $7.4bn in bombs, missiles and related equipment to Israel, which has used American-made weapons to devastating effect during the war in Gaza.

The state department has signed off on the sale of $6.75bn in bombs, guidance kits and fuses, in addition to $660m in Hellfire missiles, according to the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA).

The proposed sale of the bombs “improves Israel’s capability to meet current and future threats, strengthen its homeland defense, and serves as a deterrent to regional threats”, the DSCA said in a statement.

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[–] GarlicToast@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's very exiting to chase random Jewish students on campuses and chant Genocide Joe than to apply critical thinking that may induce an headache.

It's like Trump's plans were secret.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/19/jared-kushner-gaza-waterfront-property-israel-negev

[–] secretlyaddictedtolinux@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Are you saying voters shouldn't be shocked? I think many Christians are indifferent at best and complicit at worst. If some Muslims hadn't sat out the election or voted Stein, would it have made a difference? It seemed like Trump was voted in by a landslide because average middle class people hate inflation and Biden was quasi-gaslighting people with CPI inflation statistics that include decreased smart TV prices and RAM costs as well as increased rent and food at similar weights that doesn't reflect what hurts consumers most while failing to reassure the public that yes, it was a problem, and that he was trying to do something. For about 2 years there was a major problem with nothing done by Biden. He was going to get voted out and Kamela Harris, who was in power and could have galvanized some sort of policy instead of doing nothing for 2 years was going to get voted out. They failed the public in a very important way and pretended the inflation problem wasn't bad. It upset people, even Democrats and liberals, and lost them almost all of the moderate vote.

[–] GarlicToast@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The economy sucks globally. The US president can't fix the inflation. People are suffering economically everywhere.

We had a pandemic, world order is breaking down with Iran China and Russia leading the charge and on top of that climate change is accelerating.

It's going to get much, much worse very quickly, and picking Trump will make things worse. The president can't reduce the inflation, but he can fuck things even farther.

[–] secretlyaddictedtolinux@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Right, but Biden failed in his communications with people.

He said it wasn't that bad. That wasn't reassuring.

Even if soil problems and climate change are leading to crop reductions, and if that's the real issue, along with increasing the money supply, telling Americans "eh, it's not that bad everything looks fine based on the CPI" was an epic fail for a President.

His strategy may have been the best option, although that's doubtful, as I can think of various policies that would have reassured people without altering the money supply and am familiar with classical economic theories, but he failed to make people feel like he saw their pain. It was terrible politics from Biden, who is usually great at this stuff, and he failed at this because he was never in charge before and could rely on his extreme likability while in lower offices. I'm not denying Biden's intellect, he was tremendously smart and presumably still is, but he screwed up his messaging with the public.