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According to the report I heard on Al Jazeera a while back, Biden is playing to his domestic audience as Hamas had not received an official offer. He must have finally wised up that the conflict in Gaza is making him unpopular. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/27/middleeast/gaza-ceasefire-israel-hamas-biden-reaction-intl/index.html Israel and Hamas distance themselves from Biden’s optimism on Gaza ceasefire deal.

Doesn't matter what they say. If it's against israeli interests the US will just veto it.

LOL. The 2 % was a means of making them contribute something to their own defense. They ignored it because no previous US president made them do it. If you hadn't noticed, European military forces are a rather sad joke, IMO. They apparently decided long ago to leave it to the US. Look at the state of the UK forces. A navy with just two major ships, neither of which worked recently, and with no British attack planes on them. The Army is but a pale shadow of BAOR, and is the airforce of any use other than bombing poorly defended Houthies? Before they can debate how much they spend, they need to spend enough to actually have a military that can do something.

I didn't look at it because he was a crook and a warmonger, probably a war criminal as well, and gave us China as an industrial and military enemy, IMO. Anything he had to say is not something I need to hear.

Macron should be careful about what he wishes for. I don't think the French have won any war since before Waterloo. Not a military history to be proud of.

The million $ question is why the Americans would have to go into Iraq themselves, quite apart from triggering MAD? At least in Iraq the Bush administration had a reason, even though it was all lies. What reason existed for the US to go to war in Ukraine, apparently the most corrupt country in Europe? Other than making western arms companies mind mindbogglingly rich, what would justify it? The west doesn't give a monkey's about all the other conflicts eg Sudan, Congo, Burma etc etc etc. Did America go to war when China invaded Tibet? So, give me an actual reason why America and it's poodles had to spend billions in Ukraine?

LOL. I don't remember any allied attacks on Russia during the cold war. Perhaps you can guess why? That's correct, MAD was the reason. MAD is still the reason why Russia will not attack any western nation in NATO. Far as the rest goes, they were in the Soviet Union and no western country went to war to "liberate them, so they could be capitalist consumer units. It's all the "the Great Game", and that has been played for probably centuries. Perhaps some should stop believing western propaganda. If the "realists" get their way we are doomed. If you hadn't noticed, IMO we are already doomed. The west is slowly circling down into the plughole of history, but most haven't heard the fat lady singing yet.

All lining up to contribute, but knowing that it's all pointless as the US will just veto anything that holds israel to account. It's a Claytons court, a court that can't actually make anything happen. Apparently 50 or so nations will be calling for an immediate ceasefire, but because the UN is an IMO useless organisation, one country ( the US ) can give the finger to the rest of the world. Gaza has exposed for all to see what a sham it is. For decades israel has been ignoring UN resolutions because their partner in crime, the US is using the veto. IMO it's time for either the UN to be reformed, or every other nation to start a new one. The between wars version, the League of Nations, was dumped, so no reason to have to keep using a rigged one.

I'm a living example that a wai is not expected of a farang, as they know we don't know how to do them correctly. I cringed when I saw western tourists waiing people they shouldn't, and always getting it wrong. As for your first sentence, rubbish. I always did exactly that, and it was always accepted in the spirit it was given. The point isn't whether we wai or bow, but that we are acknowledging the existence of other people. Seems a lot of posters get too caught up in the to wai or not debate. My Thai sister in law always wai'd me and then stole everything of mine she could get her hands on.

Apparently not.

The poster you quoted is not an American, but if he's going to post on these threads he should understand that the popular vote is irrelevant in US elections for POTUS.

That's 4 years ago when Biden was able to come across as a fairly normal person. That is not the case now, IMO. I'd love to see them debate each other, as I'd like to see Biden humiliated.

I've read most of your posts, and IMO you seem to post according to your anti Trump bias.

LOL. That depends on other people being willing to keep funding her campaign. If she loses another one that would likely be in jeopardy. If Trump wins I for one will be laughing like a drain. That either he or Biden are even able to stand as candidates at their age is some sort of unpleasant comment on US politics.

I think enough money will make any lawyer work for a bad person. They'll make excuses for doing so of course.

LOL. Did the report also claim that a big sign was put on the documents so that any persons using the toilet would immediately know they were classified documents? If you were using a toilet at a dwelling not your own, do you rifle through any documents that may have been stored there? Are you able to inform us as how any person that might wish to harm the US would have known that classified documents were stared there? Even if such documents were stored in a toilet in that location, is it your contention that it was a toilet in public use? How were the documents placed in the toilet? If they were in fact "dumped" as you are trying to tell us, was the toilet even in use by anyone?

I gave that one of the laughing emojiis. As usual you provided no proof for your opinion that Russia is assisting the Biden impeachment, and when you ask a serious question I might answer it.

Agreed. IMO when the war is over and Zelensky has been dragged kicking and screaming to the negotiating table, all that will have been achieved is making the usual suspects far richer, while devastating Ukraine and leaving thousands of families without husbands and fathers. Meanwhile the western "leaders" that were the cause of the catastrophe will likely just ignore the outcome and carry without acknowledging their guilt in it. The idea that Ukraine can win if enough money is thrown into that bottomless pit is IMO ludicrous. The GOP are doing the right thing by not agreeing to throw good money after bad, IMO.

While I agree with most, I disagree that it was "on the cheap". It's cost the US billions of $ far better spent in the US, and perhaps not unfortunately has exposed Biden to questions over his wisdom in interfering in European affairs by supporting a nation that the US has no treaty with.

Excellent to see at least one western nation not bending over for israeli interests.

Agree 100%.

You started off well, but lost the plot with the part I quoted. The US has been "managing" without difficulty to stop the Palestinans getting justice, or a state of their own for many decades, and for you to say "without difficulty" makes me suspect your true motives for that post. Had the US actually wanted a Palestinian state, all they had to do was stop using the veto in the UN. That still hold today, when IMO the US is openly colluding with israel in the war crimes, by providing the bombs and bullets to carry out the war crimes. Like the Native Americans used to say in movies, "the white man speaks with forked tongue".

Without allowing as much aid and equipment into Gaza as needed a limited ceasefire is pointless. Gazans will continue to die anyway, from starvation and disease. Hamas would be foolish to accept any deal that does not allow aid in everywhere in Gaza, and IMO they would be foolish to allow the US to have any influence as the US has been shown to not be neutral where israel is concerned. It's obvious to any that are not all in for israel that the US has colluded with israel to commit atrocities on the Gazans while saying the right words. Not to be trusted in any way shape or form, IMO.

An excellent decision, IMO. Making, beds and lying in them comes to mind.

They signed a treaty with Japan in ww2. When faced with overwhelming superiority by an enemy, wise people negotiate a treaty. Pity a certain country didn't do the same two years ago.