lennybird , 4 hours ago (edited 4 hours ago)

The US State Dept does a lot of good work and I’m not going to subscribe to this notion that they’re some inherently evil entity; sounds like tankie pro-CCP thing to say, if I’m being honest. The state department is a tool whose use is dependent on the party that is in power. The vast majority of “imperial” criticism I have revolves around its use under Republican administrations; chiefly the neocons of the Bush era, and the Trump administration. If you’ll remember:

• Bush was responsible for Iraq
• Bush was responsible for Afghanistan
• Obama & Biden was responsible for withdrawing (and getting Bin Laden in the first place)
• Trump killed more civilians in one year (2017) than Obama & Biden’s presidencies combined.
• There has been no “imperial” ambitions under the Biden administration; quite the opposite, really in countering imperial ambitions of Putin, while also coming down harder on Israel than quite literally any past Presidential administration in history, with more to come I guarantee.

Now to the real source of what’s pissing you off:

WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU SENDING WEAPONS TO ISRAEL STILL

I’ll tell you the cold, hard, honest brutal truth why:

1. Because the election is 62 days away. Withdrawing aid from Israel will immediately by framed by right-wing media, Republican opposition, AIPAC, Russian and Israeli troll farms as being “Antisemitic.” Forget the fact that the Jewish-American group who normally votes Democrat is far larger (and sympathetic to Israel) than the vehemently Anti-Aid group.
2. Nuttyahoo will conveniently ignore “intelligence reports” (again) of an impending terrorist attack by Hamas, then immediately point the finger at Democrats, “Why did the evil Democrats leave us defenseless!?” — And allllllllllllll the gullible low-info voters will fall for this hook, line, and sinker. <- Hint: This would be this election’s October Surprise.
3. It seems blatantly obvious that the second this election is over and Harris is in power that the tone is going to shift drastically both with Putin and Bibi.
4. Ultimately, 62 days of trying to carve the largest electorate possible to defeat Trump is more important than acting now only to lose to Trump and then have him immediately reverse and cause hell in both Ukraine and Israel for 4 years… Or more. Battles vs. Wars thinking at play, here.

Now I don’t think Blinken or Biden or Harris are some evil psychopaths akin to Trump or Putin who do not care. Do you really have that impression? Hopefully not. If so, then you need to ask yourself, “Why would they support this?” Do you really think they like to be associated with Bibi’s war crimes? And herein lies one’s first lesson in an administration not being able to outright say the 4 points I listed above to the public and why there seems to be a disconnect between what we see and what they’re doing.

(Also Blinken can actually jam pretty well and is pretty well known around DC. Yeah, he’s politician first, musician third but you know… At least he’s got good taste in music and at least he’s got the balls to go to Kyiv in the first place unlike his predecessors.)