I don’t entirely disagree with the claim that the US has a double standard in it’s foreign policy (as the US has a dubious history in this) but this just seems to be a continuation of PBP’s refusal to discuss the Ukraine war without using it as a throwaway prefix to a rant about the US or NATO.
Seems like a reasonable justification to protest. Not sure why sanctions haven’t been applied to Israel yet (outside of the Illegal Settlements bill) but I suspect this has to do with EU policy?
PBP have virtually no fans on here, and some of their policies and ideas are whacky enough – but they’re not wrong here.
Get back in yer box now Richard
My main problem with PBP or the far-left in general isn’t that they criticise the US for double standards. It’s that they still practice their holier-than-thou virtue signalling rhetoric that *all* force/military build up is to be avoided beyond the realm of practicality; that a diplomatic solution is always a better option that somehow nobody else has thought of or tried and anything else is a pointless waste.
Because a rogue authoritarian state with a megalomaniac dictator is *totally* going to yield to letters of ‘strong condemnation’ . The only reason the Russian military hasn’t taken over larger swathes of territory is because of Western weapons sent predominantly from NATO members. Essentially I find their lack of acknowledgement that NATO is a necesity and a huge benefit to Eastern Europe frankly disgusting. Its not altruistic but it is good – and it is part of US foreign policy.
And heres the kicker and why I’m bringing up in the first place: if they want Europe to stand separately to US foreign policy, they have to acknowledge that Europe has to cover the gap between current European military spending and US military spending in Europe. But they won’t because they’re fools.
So they can go ahead all they want and do what they love to do best: criticise but offer up fuck all on ways to improve a situation.
Can we protest double standards in PBP foreign policy??
Comparisons of Israel/Palestine and the Russian invasion of Ukraine are at best bizarre. Far more people have died in the year since Russia invaded than ever died in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. They exist in completely different scales and contexts.
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I don’t entirely disagree with the claim that the US has a double standard in it’s foreign policy (as the US has a dubious history in this) but this just seems to be a continuation of PBP’s refusal to discuss the Ukraine war without using it as a throwaway prefix to a rant about the US or NATO.
Seems like a reasonable justification to protest. Not sure why sanctions haven’t been applied to Israel yet (outside of the Illegal Settlements bill) but I suspect this has to do with EU policy?
PBP have virtually no fans on here, and some of their policies and ideas are whacky enough – but they’re not wrong here.
Get back in yer box now Richard
My main problem with PBP or the far-left in general isn’t that they criticise the US for double standards. It’s that they still practice their holier-than-thou virtue signalling rhetoric that *all* force/military build up is to be avoided beyond the realm of practicality; that a diplomatic solution is always a better option that somehow nobody else has thought of or tried and anything else is a pointless waste.
Because a rogue authoritarian state with a megalomaniac dictator is *totally* going to yield to letters of ‘strong condemnation’ . The only reason the Russian military hasn’t taken over larger swathes of territory is because of Western weapons sent predominantly from NATO members. Essentially I find their lack of acknowledgement that NATO is a necesity and a huge benefit to Eastern Europe frankly disgusting. Its not altruistic but it is good – and it is part of US foreign policy.
And heres the kicker and why I’m bringing up in the first place: if they want Europe to stand separately to US foreign policy, they have to acknowledge that Europe has to cover the gap between current European military spending and US military spending in Europe. But they won’t because they’re fools.
So they can go ahead all they want and do what they love to do best: criticise but offer up fuck all on ways to improve a situation.
Can we protest double standards in PBP foreign policy??
Comparisons of Israel/Palestine and the Russian invasion of Ukraine are at best bizarre. Far more people have died in the year since Russia invaded than ever died in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. They exist in completely different scales and contexts.