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AzzyHN ◴[] No.39151089[source]
What would happen if they did order a ceasefire? Who would enforce this?
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nojvek ◴[] No.39151555[source]
I feel this is where the world is seeing the failure of US.

When US have Ukraine weapons to defend themselves, we were the good guys.

When US gives Israel the weapons to attack and airbomb Palestinians in daylight it puts US in a very bad light.

US should be the ones enforcing a cease fire. Where no side gets to airbomb each other.

Every life is valuable. Israelis or Palestinians.

The failure of US policy is to be the gatekeeper of world peace. We have the largest army by far. We spend an obscene amount of our taxes on defense.

Yet we failed to keep peace.

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1. irishloop ◴[] No.39152721[source]
Israel is a close military ally and Palestine is... not.

There are no true neutral countries in the world. Everyone has allies who they treat differently than enemies.

There are no good guys or bad guys. There are only countries which do good and bad things.

Whether its in Palestine or Congo or China or Ukraine, the most even a superpower can do is leverage power to reduce killing and fatalities.