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After Israel violated the previous deal Hamas decides to trust Witkoff a second time?

It sure seems to love selling American military secrets to Russia though.

Apartheid South Africa did have a massive lobby in these countries, but nowhere near as massive as Israel.

American politicians literally have a AIPAC handlers.

Yes but quantity is key here. So far Ukraine has barely received any of its promised F16's. There are more modern F16's in Europe. But Ukraine is barely getting any of their promised planes to begin with. Europe is offloading their old trash that much is true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-16_training_coalition

Europe has newer stuff. Even F35's. Also Eurofighters and Gripens. There is a way, but there is no will from Europe either to help Ukraine win.

Europe has plenty of weapons. Most of them are high tech such as the F16's. at the start of the war these would have been plenty to destroy the Russian arsenal. It took a lot of time for Russia to scale up their production to current levels.

Even now we are seeing Europe occasionally send a few Storm Shadow missiles to finally strike deeper within Russia. Something they claimed to be a red line at the beginning. The F16's also took ages.

The Gulf States have unlimited American military bases on them. There is one place which does not allow American military bases.

USS Liberty.

They should but they won't. Because their actions contradict their words. And Trump says the quiet part out loud.

There was a ceasefire deal which Ukraine almost accepted. Then Boris Johnson intervened and said Europe and America would 100% super duper most definitely support Ukraine to win the war pinky promise no cap on a stack fr fr.

Europe was very clear that they did not want Ukraine to win. They could have sent Ukraine all the weapons if needed to win the war at the very start. Yet they refused to do so, because Russia has nuclear weapons, and they "feared for an escalation". However, now that Ukraine is starting to lose, they are sending the weapons, which they said they would not send before.

If Ukraine is not allowed to win for "fear of escalation", then I do not see any other option than a stalemate or a loss for Ukraine. In this case that means the goal is throwing Ukrainians into the meatgrinder to weaken Russia.

To meet Air Force One standards, the plane would need extensive modifications, including secure communications, nuclear blast shielding and missile defense systems.

Nuclear blast shielding?

You're partially correct but they do not care about Ukraine either. Ukraine is not being defended it's being used and extorted.

Europe and America refused to send Ukraine actual weapons at the start of the war because of "fears that Putin could see it as an escalation". This all but confirmed: Ukraine could not win no matter what.

They wanted to throw as many Ukrainian men as possible into the meat grinder to weaken Russia and get Ukraine into debt. All of that military "aid" suddenly turns out to be a loan. Now that Ukraine is too far into the sunk cost fallacy they start openly blackmailing Ukraine for control over its natural resources.

Okay now where are the sanctions?

It does represent the dichotomy of Democrats complaining about 2a when they are in control but people realizing its importance when the repression they commit abroad comes home.

Turns out that the CCP isn't the only one who has full control over tech companies based in their country.

Common microtrash l

The Lebansese president was basically appointed by America so no surprise.

Of course, Hamas also took non-combatants hostage

Which is why the non combatants can reasonably called hostages. But not the armed IDF soldiers.

Israel is kidnapping Palestinians to surpress them and steal their houses. They are they peak of taking hostages.

Hamas captures these people because they are soldiers. Working in the division which is responsible for the starvation of Gaza. That is an entirely different reason.

In virtually every conflict soldiers are captured and traded for soldiers of the other party or other diplomatic goals. Using this term for soldiers would make it so every PoW becomes a hostage and the term loses all meaning.

Next thing you know people are getting "kidnapped from tanks"

It has a lot of relevance to it because it is what defines whether they are hostages or PoW's.

A hostage is when someone is taken captive without valid reason. Which is what Israel does.

Ukraine and Russia are both trading PoW's so you would say they are taking hostages instead of prisoners?

The free speech exception

You would argue that children kidnapped by Israel should be called prisoners and active duty soldiers guarding a concentration camp should be called hostages?