Biden says simultaneous wars in Ukraine, Israel won’t overwhelm US

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President Biden in a new interview dismissed the idea that the United States could not simultaneously support Israel in its war against Hamas and Ukraine in its war against Russia.

“We’re the United States of America for God’s sake, the most powerful nation in the history — not in the world, in the history of the world,” Biden said in a “60 Minutes” interview that aired Sunday. “We can take care of both of these and still maintain our overall international defense.”

 

Biden argued that the two conflicts “overwhelmingly” relate to the safety of the American people.

“In Ukraine one of my objectives was to prevent [Russian President Vladimir Putin], who has committed war crimes himself, who — from being able to occupy an independent country that borders NATO allies and is on the Russian border,” Biden said. “Imagine what happens now if he were able to succeed. Have you ever known a major war in Europe we didn’t get sucked into? We don’t want that to happen.”

“We want to make sure those democracies are sustained. And Ukraine is critical in making sure that happens,” Biden added.

Biden sat down with “60 Minutes” at the White House days after Hamas, the militant group that controls the Gaza Strip, launched terrorist attacks against Israel that left 1,000 Israelis dead. Thousands more Palestinians have been killed in ensuing fighting in Gaza.

More than two dozen Americans were killed in the attacks, and more than a dozen remain unaccounted for.

The Biden administration has moved military assets closer to Israel in support of the Jewish state and has sent munitions and interceptors for Israel’s Iron Dome defense system.

 

At the same time, Congress has provided billions of dollars in military and financial assistance to Ukraine in the roughly 20 months since Russia launched an unprovoked invasion in February 2022.

 

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[Chomper Higgot]

Cometh the hour, cometh the man.

 

We’re the United States of America for God’s sake, the most powerful nation in the history — not in the world, in the history of the world,”

“We can take care of both of these and still maintain our overall international defense.”

 

Well said Mr President.

 

 

[EVENKEEL]

And let the taxpayers pave the way. Outstanding. p

[Chomper Higgot]

6 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

And let the taxpayers pave the way. Outstanding. p

Better that than American lives having to be expended later down the line after appeasement failed.

 

 

[JonnyF]

36 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Cometh the hour, cometh the man.

 

We’re the United States of America for God’s sake, the most powerful nation in the history — not in the world, in the history of the world,”

“We can take care of both of these and still maintain our overall international defense.”

 

Well said Mr President.

 

 

Rabble rousing nationalist nonsense.  

 

Using American taxpayers money to interfere in overseas conflicts. Again. Some people never learn... 

[JonnyF]

12 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

And let the taxpayers pave the way. Outstanding. p

They love spending other people's money on their vanity projects.

[JonnyF]

5 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Better that than American lives having to be expended later down the line after appeasement failed.

 

 

Talking of failure, I wonder how long before Biden will be distracted by some other vanity project and pull out prematurely, just as he did with Afghanistan. What a utter mess he made of that...

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58238497

 

He really should focus on his many domestic issues and stop trying to be the world's policeman. He's not up to the job. 

[EVENKEEL]

24 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Better that than American lives having to be expended later down the line after appeasement failed.

 

 

Yep, keep telling yourself that.

[candide]

1 hour ago, JonnyF said:

Talking of failure, I wonder how long before Biden will be distracted by some other vanity project and pull out prematurely, just as he did with Afghanistan. What a utter mess he made of that...

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58238497

 

He really should focus on his many domestic issues and stop trying to be the world's policeman. He's not up to the job. 

Biden applied the premature withdrawal agreement made by Trump (who also sabotaged it a bit before leaving).

 

If he hadn't done it, I guess you would have accused him of war mongering.

[Chomper Higgot]

1 hour ago, JonnyF said:

Talking of failure, I wonder how long before Biden will be distracted by some other vanity project and pull out prematurely, just as he did with Afghanistan. What a utter mess he made of that...

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58238497

 

He really should focus on his many domestic issues and stop trying to be the world's policeman. He's not up to the job. 

It’s always amusing when you come on here and openly display your ignorance of the basic facts behind issues you are ranting about.

 

https://www.factcheck.org/2021/08/timeline-of-u-s-withdrawal-from-afghanistan/

 

 

[JonnyF]

49 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

It’s always amusing when you come on here and openly display your ignorance of the basic facts behind issues you are ranting about.

 

https://www.factcheck.org/2021/08/timeline-of-u-s-withdrawal-from-afghanistan/

 

 

I'm not discussing the timeline. That's another silly deflection. 

 

I'm saying Biden made a complete mess of the process.

 

 

He couldn't organize a prayer in a mosque. Now we wants to join in pretty much every conflict around the world. He needs to sit down somewhere...

[Eric Loh]

3 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Cometh the hour, cometh the man.

 

We’re the United States of America for God’s sake, the most powerful nation in the history — not in the world, in the history of the world,”

“We can take care of both of these and still maintain our overall international defense.”

 

Well said Mr President.

 

 

Meanwhile Trump's idiocry continue with his praising of Hazbollah, Xi, Putin and Kim. One acting Presidential while the ex-prez acting like an uncouth dumb ass. 

[Chomper Higgot]

20 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

I'm not discussing the timeline. That's another silly deflection. 

 

I'm saying Biden made a complete mess of the process.

 

 

He couldn't organize a prayer in a mosque. Now we wants to join in pretty much every conflict around the world. He needs to sit down somewhere...

Of course you don’t want to discuss the timeline which provides an insight into who made what decisions and the consequences of the decisions they made.

[illisdean]

5 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Of course you don’t want to discuss the timeline which provides an insight into who made what decisions and the consequences of the decisions they made.

Here's some insight, complete with diagrams, pictures, graphs with timeline of opinion of Biden easy for you to understand.

 

Opinion of Biden tanked after his humiliating gong show withdrawal in Afghanistan. Step forward to Oct 2023 Biden's prowess and foreign policy debacle and current appeasement and embolding of Iran has brought the world a few steps closer to nuclear Armageddon as the world sees total weakness in his admin. Biden is more concerned with UA's borders than the southern border with MX, with millions of unknown and un-vetted illegals from all corners of the globe infiltrating the US. Bad days for America, Biden has created the perfect mess. Risk of terror attacks in America are higher than ever since Sept 11. Biden is getting played by both Iran and hamas protecting Qatar.

Beware America, Biden has created a potential escalation to WW3.

 

Graph  p. 8

 

https://mclaughlinonline.com/pols/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/National-Presentation-RELEASE-8-23-2023-2.pdf

 

 

 

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6 hours ago, JonnyF said:

I'm not discussing the timeline. That's another silly deflection. 

 

I'm saying Biden made a complete mess of the process.

 

 

He couldn't organize a prayer in a mosque. Now we wants to join in pretty much every conflict around the world. He needs to sit down somewhere...

Tell that to the Ukrainians. 

[Tug]

The Biden administration responded to Ukrainian pleas for help we responded as did nato at a cost of 6% of our defense budget we have help fund along with nato the utter humiliation of Putin his inept military all without costing American lives #1 that is an incredible bargain #2 it is the correct moral thing to do(woke thing to do)choke gasp!! Sending a strong deterrent to protect Israel’s flanks is also the correct moral thing to do America can handle it no problem in my humble opinion,the danger lies in the dysfunctional congress thanks to one Donald John trump who continues to be a tremendous asset to americas enemies.

[Chomper Higgot]

31 minutes ago, illisdean said:

Here's some insight, complete with diagrams, pictures, graphs with timeline of opinion of Biden easy for you to understand.

 

Opinion of Biden tanked after his humiliating gong show withdrawal in Afghanistan. Step forward to Oct 2023 Biden's prowess and foreign policy debacle and current appeasement and embolding of Iran has brought the world a few steps closer to nuclear Armageddon as the world sees total weakness in his admin. Biden is more concerned with UA's borders than the southern border with MX, with millions of unknown and un-vetted illegals from all corners of the globe infiltrating the US. Bad days for America, Biden has created the perfect mess. Risk of terror attacks in America are higher than ever since Sept 11. Biden is getting played by both Iran and hamas protecting Qatar.

Beware America, Biden has created a potential escalation to WW3.

 

Graph  p. 8

 

https://mclaughlinonline.com/pols/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/National-Presentation-RELEASE-8-23-2023-2.pdf

 

 

 

Two US Navy carrier groups sitting off the coast of Israel is a very odd appeasement.

 

Your other off topic canned rants are noted.

 

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4 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Two US Navy carrier groups sitting off the coast of Israel is a very odd appeasement.

 

Your other off topic canned rants are noted.

 

Quite the opposite of appeasement. It's either intimidation or provocation. What happens if Hezbollah gets lucky and sinks a U.S. ship?

[Tug]

32 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Quite the opposite of appeasement. It's either intimidation or provocation. What happens if Hezbollah gets lucky and sinks a U.S. ship?

They would see a response similar to what hammas is experiencing at the hands of the Israelis 

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4 minutes ago, Tug said:

They would see a response similar to what hammas is experiencing at the hands of the Israelis 

But it isn't only Hamas that's experiencing what Israel is dishing out, is it? So will the US be killing Lebanese civilians as well as Hezbollah troops? And given that the Israeli response looks like it's going to be an invasion of Gaza, does that mean American troops would be landing in Lebanon?  You don't seem to have given much consideration to what the consequences of such a US response would be. Come to think of it, neither have the supporters of the Israeli invasion of Gaza. Let's see how much world support holds for Israel once the Israeli invasion is underway. 

[thaibeachlovers]

19 hours ago, Social Media said:

“We can take care of both of these and still maintain our overall international defense.”

Hmmmmm. Really?

Will it come down to anti air missiles for Ukraine or israel? Both are using massive amounts.

The cost alone must be horrendous.

Never mind, the US can just borrow a few billion more- the taxpayer has deep pockets, don't they?

[Chomper Higgot]

8 hours ago, placeholder said:

But it isn't only Hamas that's experiencing what Israel is dishing out, is it? So will the US be killing Lebanese civilians as well as Hezbollah troops? And given that the Israeli response looks like it's going to be an invasion of Gaza, does that mean American troops would be landing in Lebanon?  You don't seem to have given much consideration to what the consequences of such a US response would be. Come to think of it, neither have the supporters of the Israeli invasion of Gaza. Let's see how much world support holds for Israel once the Israeli invasion is underway. 

The US Navy are sitting off the Israeli coast to deter any opportunist attacks by third nations on Israel.

 

Their main means to do so is overwhelmingly air superiority.

 

The US has sent two carrier groups, not land forces or marines.

 

 

[thaibeachlovers]

18 hours ago, JonnyF said:

Talking of failure, I wonder how long before Biden will be distracted by some other vanity project and pull out prematurely, just as he did with Afghanistan. What a utter mess he made of that...

IMO he'll abandon Ukraine before he pulls out of israel.

I don't know what hold israel holds over US leaders, but it must be significant. Sending an aircraft battle group to do what? is strange given the Gazan's have no heavy weapons to resist. Are the israelis unable to suppress a few lightly armed fighters themselves. Is the israeli military a sham that they need the US and UK to help?

 

Blinken is on Al Jazeera rattling the sabre against 2 million civilians.

 

Stop the presses- Blinken just said that aid needs to be sent to Gaza! He didn't say that it needs to be sent NOW though. Perhaps they will wait till a few more thousand Gazan's starve to death or die of wounds before they let the tons of aid waiting in Egypt through.

[Chomper Higgot]

11 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Hmmmmm. Really?

Will it come down to anti air missiles for Ukraine or israel? Both are using massive amounts.

The cost alone must be horrendous.

Never mind, the US can just borrow a few billion more- the taxpayer has deep pockets, don't they?

Or the the US could sit back and let the war in Ukraine spread to the point where the US had to once again send its youth to die in Europe.

 

While at the same time letting other nations observe that they can take territory by illegal wars of invasion.

 

Supporting Ukraine and Israel with military hardware is a lot more accepting to US voters than sending their sons and daughters to war.

 

But thank you for reminding us that Putin’s propaganda is still in play.

[Chomper Higgot]

4 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

IMO he'll abandon Ukraine before he pulls out of israel.

I don't know what hold israel holds over US leaders, but it must be significant. Sending an aircraft battle group to do what? is strange given the Gazan's have no heavy weapons to resist. Are the israelis unable to suppress a few lightly armed fighters themselves. Is the israeli military a sham that they need the US and UK to help?

 

Blinken is on Al Jazeera rattling the sabre against 2 million civilians.

 

Stop the presses- Blinken just said that aid needs to be sent to Gaza! He didn't say that it needs to be sent NOW though. Perhaps they will wait till a few more thousand Gazan's starve to death or die of wounds before they let the tons of aid waiting in Egypt through.

You should perhaps inform yourself of the regional politics and strategic interests around both the Ukraine and Israel.

 

You might also wish to consider which other nations are watching to see if seizing territory by illegal military invasion is something that they might get away with.

 

The death of people in Gaza was an inevitable outcome of Hamas’ obscene terrorist attack on Israel, perhaps a desired outcome.

 

It would not be happening if Hamas had not attacked Israel.

 

 

[placeholder]

22 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

The US Navy are sitting off the Israeli coast to deter any opportunist attacks by third nations on Israel.

 

Their main means to do so is overwhelmingly air superiority.

 

The US has sent two carrier groups, not land forces or marines.

 

 

And that's a guarantee of success? I'm on my mobile phone right now but there's an article in the New York times about how well those fleets may currently serve as a deterrent, pressure will build on Hezbollah to take action if the carnage becomes more severe. And most likely, it will become a lot more severe.

[Chomper Higgot]

1 minute ago, placeholder said:

And that's a guarantee of success? I'm on my mobile phone right now but there's an article in the New York times about how well those fleets may currently serve as a deterrent, pressure will build on Hezbollah to take action if the carnage becomes more severe. And most likely, it will become a lot more severe.

We’re all doomed.

 

Perhaps that was *Hamas’ plan all along.

 

Start a war, get large numbers of Palestinians killed in to drag in Hezbollah and Iran.

 

Two US Navy Carrier Groups sitting off Israel are give anyone thinking about getting involved pause for thought.

 

And pause for thought is a good thing.

[JonnyF]

16 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Of course you don’t want to discuss the timeline which provides an insight into who made what decisions and the consequences of the decisions they made.

All it does is provide you with the opportunity to deflect. To conjure a lame excuse as to why Biden completely messed up the withdrawal.

 

Biden can damage the US as much as he likes, but he needs to stop putting his nose into other people's business. He's not capable. He's not cognizant. He's resorting to immature chest pounding and flag waving with other people's money and other people's lives..

 

 

Pathetic.

[Chomper Higgot]

8 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

All it does is provide you with the opportunity to deflect. To conjure a lame excuse as to why Biden completely messed up the withdrawal.

 

Biden can damage the US as much as he likes, but he needs to stop putting his nose into other people's business. He's not capable. He's not cognizant. He's resorting to immature chest pounding and flag waving with other people's money and other people's lives..

 

 

Pathetic.

Your whole ‘Afghanistan withdrawal’ is a deflection Jonny.

 

And one for which you are willfully ignorant of the facts.

 

Perhaps Biden should stay out of other lives, and not petition Israel to allow aid into Gaza and not provide weapons to the Ukranian’s in order that they can fight the illegal military invasion of their country.

 

Thankfully he chooses otherwise.

 

That he also doesn’t try to extort Ukraine is a bonus.

 

Oh and Congress votes the Budget, not the President.

[JonnyF]

1 hour ago, thaibeachlovers said:

IMO he'll abandon Ukraine before he pulls out of israel.

Agreed. But IMO he'll pull out of both before the job is complete.

 

Just like Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. Something will come up to divert his attention, likely China invading Taiwan.