White House warns Israel crisis is stretching its ability to support Ukraine: ‘Running out of runway’
White House warns Israel crisis is stretching its ability to support Ukraine: ‘Running out of runway’
Biden administration moving with ‘sense of alacrity’ as John Kirby says aid won’t be ‘indefinite’
Sounds like Russia was successful. They met with the Hamas a while back and it seems this is the outcome
Yes, when I read the title of this post, I thought that Putin was behind that, and he certainly is
Did they really or you're just speculating?
Let’s start with the Hamas attacks. Russia has long courted the Islamist militants, and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and other officials have made recent trips to Moscow. After Saturday’s assaults, the Russians were quick to dust off old plans to pull Israel’s borders back to where they were in 1967. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the creation of a Palestinian state was being thwarted by the “destructive policy” of the U.S., and you could almost hear the purr of satisfaction when a gloating former President Dmitry Medvedev dismissed the Hamas attacks as “an expected development” and turned his ire against the West.
They really did.
"Stretching its ability to support Ukraine"...for now.
The problem isn't that we can't do both because we certainly can, the problem is that we're running out of money to do it UNDER CURRENT APPROPRIATIONS BILLS.
Congress will eventually return to session and more appropriations bills will pass; the only questions are how much and how quickly it will be done.
Why do you need to support Israel at all beyond the amount that was previously being done? They're not in an actual war and they're not having to defend against an invasion like Ukraine is.
Geopolitically speaking, you should completely pull out of Israel. Seriously, do it. Pull all funding from Israel.
Why is Israel, who is hardly the victim in their conflict and strangely very well funded by US taxpayers ,being conflated with Ukraine, who is being invaded by a dictatorship?
The only constant between those two is the fascism.
While there is no evidence to support it, some experts are pointing at Putin's lukewarm response after the attack, and the fact that this division of efforts is immensely helpful to his invasion in Ukraine, and are wondering if he worked with Iran to help arm and plan this attack by Hamas.
So, in other words, "stretching its ability to support Ukraine" was the whole point.
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4250708-putins-fingerprints-are-on-hamas/
I too enjoy consuming conspiracy theories dressed up as news
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The White House said it was “running out of runway” on supporting both Ukraine and Israel as US Republican lawmakers warned they would protest any funding request for military aid from the Biden administration for the two crisis-hit nations.
Mr Kirby was answering a question at a daily briefing on the administration meeting the immediate needs of Ukraine and Israel along with the continuing fight to elect a House Speaker.
The National Security Council coordinator also said the House Speaker position was critical in terms of bringing legislation to the floor and moving things forward.
The White House has been considering a budget request tying money for these two conflicts together to increase the chances that the heavily-debated assistance for Ukraine will be approved.
He told Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the US will send more military assistance to help Israel fight Hamas.
The US is already rushing munitions and military equipment to Israel and has deployed a carrier strike group to the eastern Mediterranean as deterrence.
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Israel is like David and Goliath, but this time Goliath wins.
The paper tiger is beginning to shred. Hopefully.