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The Biden administration in recent days quietly authorized the transfer of billions of dollars in bombs and fighter jets to Israel despite Washington’s concerns about an anticipated military offensive in southern Gaza that could threaten the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians.
The new arms packages include more than 1,800 MK84 2,000-pound bombs and 500 MK82 500-pound bombs, according to Pentagon and State Department officials familiar with the matter. The 2,000 pound bombs have been linked to previous mass-casualty events throughout Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. These officials, like some others, spoke to The Washington Post on the condition of anonymity because recent authorizations have not been disclosed publicly.
The 2,000 pound bombs, capable of leveling city blocks and leaving craters in the earth 40 feet across and larger, are almost never used anymore by Western militaries in densely populated locations due to the risk of civilian casualties.
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For reference the US only dropped one 2,000 pound bomb on Isis in Raqqa. and analysts are saying no one has been bombed this hard since Vietnam.
Eighteen hundred 2000 pound bombs!
Genocide Joe wants every last Palestinian in refugee camps blown to bits!
He seems to want that more than a second term in office.
Even the libs have accepted at this point Biden can’t even do worse than Trump when it comes to supporting this Genocide. As Biden is 100% all in on Genociding every last Palestinian.
Now they’ve given up and talk about the differences in domestic policies. You can have Genocide with abortion and trans rights!
Trans Rights are human rights!
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Poorly worded comment from you here, or at least I hope it’s poorly worded.
Will adjust it for better wording. Intended to show the pinkwashing of the Genocide.
Ah.
No bro, he sanctioned 7 settlers, he is against genocide bro
He’s now walked back those sanctions because Israel threatened to financially punish Palestinians in retaliation.
Threatening collective punishment to sway political action? That sounds an awful lot like a two-fer. An exquisite entree of genocide paired with a lovely glass of terrorism.
The America that Americans are taught that America is would’ve bombed the everloving fuck out of Israel right now. I truly cannot understand why the fuck we’re still helping Israel right now. I must be a clueless dumb fuck because I see zero upside and a shitload of blowback for this, and I don’t exactly have an Ivy League J.D.
I think there’s a short-term upside (maintaining their hegemony foothold in the middle east, fuelling the arms dealing economy) with a long-term downside (accelerated erosion of US soft power, globally).
Unfortunately those in power have an “apres moi la deluge” approach.
This is more kt worth of explosives than what I have virtually dropped in over 2000 hours of war thunder mixed battles over 5 years
spoiler
- 1,800 (2,000 lbs) MK84s = 3,600,000 lbs of ordnance
- 500 (500 lbs) MK82 = 250,000 lbs of ordnance
= 3,850,000 lbs of ordnance being sent to Israel
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My most common WT CAS load out: F-86-25 with 2x 1,000lbs AN-M65A1s = 2,000lbs total per flight
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Total ground targets destroyed = 1683
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Assuming worst efficiency of each 2,000 lbs load only destroying one target,
1683 * 2,000 = 3,366,000 lbs of videogame ordnance dropped in 2000 hours of gameplay
Yeah this is totally fine
It’s apparently a lot more than a Western nation would drop on a built up area.
How do these transfers actually work? Does anyone actually know? There’s no way it’s just “Israel asks, Biden delivers next week.”
The 100 secret arms transfers from Biden to israel went rather quickly. Almost one shipment per day.
For this new order israel is probably going to get the bombs and planes over a few shipments, but they will be sure not to run out. Seeing the speed of the last few shipments israel might already start seeing the first bombs next week.
Ok, so your link goes nowhere and that didn’t answer my question.
Canada didn’t stop sending arms to Saudi Arabia when that whole thing came up a couple years ago because of a contract put in place by a different government 15 years prior.
I’m asking what the process is. America was sending weapons to Israel looooooooooong before Biden, so saying Biden instead of America sure makes it seem like you have an agenda. There’s gotta be records for these sort of transactions.
How Does Genocide Happen? There’s a thread a few scrolls above this one with the exact question.
The brothers, Isaac and Ishmael, need to end their stupid family feud and make peace.
What lack of material analysis does to a mf
This isn’t a war between Muslims and Jews over religion, and to dismiss it as that is asinine. This is a settler-colonial genocide with remarkable parallels to the US’s genocide against First Nations in the 17 and 1800s
Right? The vast majority of religious people believe in ‘the god of Abraham,’ why can’t they get along?
Settler colonialism.
What lack of material analysis does to a mf
This isn’t a war between Muslims and Jews over religion, and to dismiss it as that is asinine. This is a settler-colonial genocide with remarkable parallels to the US’s genocide against First Nations in the 17 and 1800s
