With just two months remaining in his presidency, President Joe Biden is moving forward with an aggressive U.S. posture toward the war in Ukraine. On Monday, the administration greenlit the use of U.S. made long-range missiles to hit targets in Russia, a move President Vladimir Putin has stated is a red line for Moscow. Ukraine then proceeded to use the missiles the next day. Israel is continuing its genocidal war in Gaza with daily attacks killing large numbers of civilians. While the administration claims to want an end to the wars against Gaza and Lebanon, it continues to facilitate those very wars.
All of President-elect Donald Trump's defense and national security nominees have backed Israel’s war against Gaza. Some have accused Biden of not giving enough support to Israel and several have advocated military action against Iran, as well as regime change.
On Intercepted, Kelley Vlahos from the Quincy Institute joins Jeremy Scahill for a wide-ranging discussion on the kettle of hawks assembled by Trump, the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, and other issues.
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Well, this might be the beginning of the end. If this is it, and most of us will just perish slowly, I do hope that the last ones to go are the Israeli leaders and the Israeli population supporting the genocide, the Clintons, the Obamas, Elon Musk and the other billionaires, the Trumps and trumpkins, Blinken and his press people, the other warmongers, the media mouthpieces - maybe Biden although he might not last this long, at least not with the ability to understand what he has done. All surviving in the oxygen-dwindling planet, starving and killing themselves slowly, painfully and hopelessly. Power and money will mean nothing them, and they cannot do anything without people to exploit and manipulate
Biden’s “hail Mary” efforts are so transparent. Eg, the “ceasefire” in Lebanon, as Matt Miller implicitly clarified in a recent press conference, was initiated because “70,000 Israelis have been displaced from their homes.”
This tactic is obviously calculated to appear to the American public as advocating for a real ceasefire, while simultaneously advocating for the Israeli population. Trying to have it both ways, but not.
Fundamentally, this is a devious Machiavellian ploy to support Israeli aggression while appearing to be working toward a ceasefire—a hawk in dove’s clothing.
By these false gestures, Biden is trying to repair his damaged presidential mythology so the Democratic Party can rise again from the ashes of 2024 at some future date.
Clearly, the Democratic Party power brokers are already strategizing their return—dropping the bread crumbs it will retrace back to power. Remember how Biden worked day and night for a ceasefire?
But are they now too exposed for that to work?
To be continued…