THE INCOMPREHENSIBLE UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICIES ON THE WARS IN UKRAINE AND GAZA

I cannot comprehend the incompatible foreign policies we currently have on the wars in the Ukraine and Gaza. In Gaza we are currently supporting the Israeli government by sending arms to Israel and the backing them in international politics at the United Nations. At the same time we are sending Israel bombs and ammunition to blow up Gaza we are claiming that the US and others  need to  support the Palestinians in Gaza  in their  humanitarian crises caused by Israel's invasion and bombing.  Meanwhile our ally in a war in Europe, the Ukraine, is finding itself in a very tenuous position in it's war with Russia because the aid it was receiving from the United States has slowed considerably due the reticence of the Republicans in the House of Representatives to pass enabling legislation. Their failure to act is because the republican nominee for president opposes the aid to Ukraine and doesn't want the Biden administration to achieve any major successes. It is pure partisan obstinance. They take the position of letting the Ukraine hang out to dry. But, in spite of the failure of the Republicans in the House of Representatives to be willing to support our European ally, it does seem that there is ordinance available that we are shipping to Israel that could  be sent to the Ukraine to support its military.

 We don't have to keep sending ordinance support to Israel. It is one of the richest countries in the world on a per capita basis. Secondly, Biden's position that Israel must be allowed to defend itself has no more pertinence. That was lost some time ago. Israel is no longer defending itself. It is busy destroying Gaza and the culture and community that existed there. Israel has already killed over 30,000 Palestinians and destroyed a great deal of if not most of the public infrastructure and private homes in Gaza.  It would seem that is enough blood vengeance to offset the 1200 Israelis killed and 200 captured in the Hamas raid. Yet we are busy delivering more ammunition to Israel to support a continuing Israeli attack on Gaza while we are promoting more aid to help the people of Gaza who are dying from the Israeli attacks and starvation as their food sources have been cut off.  I don't know how anyone can combine those two policies as the Biden administration continues to do.

In contrast we are not sending more aid to Ukraine. The Ukraine  is busy trying to fight off a Russian invasion but we are no longer supplying them ammunition as what we previously allocated has run out and Congress has not yet authorized legislation allocating any additional ordinance support. It appears that the Biden administration intends to sit on the issue and blame the Republicans in the House of Representatives unless Congress takes action to authorize more money for  the Ukraine.  To my  knowledge that is an incomplete analysis. We can send the Ukraine the ammunition we are currently supplying to Israel. There is no logical reason to keep sending that ordinance to Israel. They are continuing to kill the Palestinians in Gaza and destroy their society. Those two and a half million people are not doing anything to further an attack on Israel. even though Israel claims it must continue until it totally destroys Hamas. That is not possible. This vengeance by Israel and its war against the Palestinians and Gaza is simply creating more Palestinians who will want to respond to the Israeli vengeance. The United States should no longer be supporting that action by the Israeli military.

Also, we have a stockpile of ammunition that we retain for the US military.  We can screen that stockpile and skim what believe we can be sent  to the Ukraine. The Ukraine is our ally and is fighting to end an invasion by Russian. Our European allies believe such actions by Russia demonstrate a significant threat to themselves. In these circumstances it should make perfect sense to take some of our military stockpiles and provide them to the Ukraine to assist it in opposing the Russian invasion.

It is a simple process to turn our foreign policy into something logical, unless you are a politician, and it is a presidential election year. Stop feeding ordinance to the Israelis and take that ordinance and send it to the Ukraine military. If further ordinance is needed for Ukraine take some of it from the American stockpiles and order additional ammunition to restore the stockpiles. Somewhere in that process some congressmen who are trying to avoid these issues will get upset because it's an election year and they're trying to make their presidential candidate happy. Biden should go ahead and make such decisions and force the issue with Congress. After taking the ordinance from the Israelis and sending it to the Ukraine, then focus more effort on humanitarian assistance for the Palestinians in Gaza.

I am sure there are those who can find fault this analysis and offer complications to my contemplations. What it comes down to is it's an election year and Trump is trying  to leave the Ukraine hanging so his friend Vladimir Putin can destroy the Ukraine military administration, the Biden administration will not achieve a victory in supporting the Ukraine, and in his mind Trump will then be elected and can strike a deal with Putin to end the war and claim that he is the only brilliant person that could do this. We saw the results of his similar actions in Afghanistan, and it led to a disastrous withdrawal. He is just setting up the same playbook. This silliness is further exposed because any allocation of money for ammunition to the Ukraine would run through the end of this year and even if trump were elected that allocation would expire before he would take office. He is obsessed with returning himself to office. His actions and positions are not founded on what is best for the United States. Unfortunately, the Republican members in the House of Representatives don't have the fortitude to oppose him.

The Biden administration is also playing election year politics as it hopes to placate the Palestinian vote and those supporting the Palestinians in the United States but not make the voters supporting Israel upset. Hence, the Biden administration continues the silly dichotomy of sending ammunition to Israel, which Israel uses to destroy Gaza, while seeking humanitarian support for the Palestinians. Therefore, we have an incomprehensible mess.  I am sure all of Biden's entourage is busy feeding him all sorts of ideas about what to do but I don't know why anyone is making this so complicated. From my position as a citizen, I think the answers of what direction to take and what decisions to make are fairly simple.

Silence Dogood