• yamanii@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Why wouldn’t the country that sells the most weapons do this? They have everything to gain from more wars.

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    9 months ago

    Just a hypothetical question but how many Palestinians have to die for the US to vote to support a ceasefire? Or how many more war crimes Israel has to commit to stop them sending weapons.

    The US should realise that sending them weapons empowers Israel and gives them the sense of impunity that no matter what they do they will always get a pass.

    No one should be higher than basic humanitarian and international laws and with this war we clearly are showing our double standards.

    • riseuppikmin[he/him]@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      The United States is completely aware of the atrocities being committed and no amount of additional war crimes will change its position.

      Its interests in the region that it views as necessary to maintaining its global hegemonic power are viewed as more important than any action by an allied actor even to the extent of what a decently large portion of its populace deems genocide.