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Originally Posted by flere-imsaho
Really?
Here's my list, again: - Withdrew from a nuclear arms treaty with Russia - Russia broke it and it's kind of silly to stay in a treaty if one side is not abiding by it. A lot you can criticize him for but continuing to abide by a treaty the other side isn't is really dumb. You somehow found the one Russia example where Trump was kind of tough on them.
- Alternately increased defense funding and criticized the amount spent on defense - Biden has done this and is asking for hundreds of billions more in military aid for other countries to fight our proxy wars.
- Pardoned and promoted soldiers who were convicted and accused, respectively, of war crimes - Biden has ignored all the war crimes being committed in Gaza with our support. He also voted for those wars in Iraq and Afghanistan where this happened and said nothing about the war crimes the United States was committing while he was VP.
- Increased drone strikes from the Obama Administration, and reduced transparency, including the Obama-era policy of reporting civilian deaths due to drone strikes - We're bombing Yemen, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Somalia in just the past couple months. We're providing weapons and support in bombings of many others.
- Legitimized North Korea, removed sanctions placed on North Korea, and saluted North Korean generals - Which sanctions did he remove? I know he added a bunch when he was in power and even seized assets from NK. Worth noting that under Biden, NK is now much closer to Russia and is providing them with munitions to fight Ukraine. Not sure this is one you want to use.
- Withdrew the U.S. from an Iranian sanctions program that then allowed Iran greater freedom to develop nuclear weapons
- Removed support from the Kurds, causing them to ally with Syria against Turkey, another stated objective of Russia in the region - Biden literally just gave Turkey billions in military equipment to kill Kurds. You can't be serious. Fucking over the Kurds is sort of our thing.
- Sold billions of weapons to Saudi Arabia, said great things about MBS, and condoned the murder of Jamal Khashoggi - No difference from what Biden is doing.
- Gave legitimacy to the practice of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank - No difference from what Biden is doing.
Which of those does Biden support? |
Listed above. If you're looking for some big Biden foreign policy win, the withdrawal from Afghanistan was genuinely a good decision. Although it was mostly just a shift of one neverending war to prop up defense companies to another.
Also added this for your "pardon war criminals" point.
