https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-administration-pauses-ammunition-shipments-israel-us-officials/story?id=109993270
The Biden administration delayed the shipment of some 3,500 bombs to Israel that U.S. officials worried could be used in Rafah, an official tells ABC.
No way they were using all those weapons for genocide??!!!?!
lmao as if he's just now realizing this, sure thing.
More plausibly, US has now run through its stocks of weapons sending them to Ukraine, and doesn't have the weapons to send. Framing it as refusing to send the weapons because US all of a sudden developed a conscience is a way to avoid admitting this.
More plausibly, US has now run through its stocks of weapons sending them to Ukraine, and doesn’t have the weapons to send.
That is the most wildly implausible thing I've read on Lemmy today.
Western media openly admits that US isn't able to keep up with ammunition production for Ukraine. Try keep up with the real world.
Western media openly admits that US isn’t able to keep up with ammunition production for Ukraine.
Yes, but that only applies to artillery shells and there's a very good reason.
Try keep up with the real world.
I do, which is why I know that things like JDAMS are entirely unconstrained. The U.S. has hundreds of thousands of them lying around.
Yes, but that only applies to artillery shells and there’s a very good reason.
Reason being lack of industrial capacity. And it's not just artillery shells, it's a systemic problem https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/attritional-art-war-lessons-russian-war-ukraine
do, which is why I know that things like JDAMS are entirely unconstrained. The U.S. has hundreds of thousands of them lying around.
Not really unconstrained given that US has delusions about fighting China. Also, how many of those still work is a question.
“Why won’t he do anything to stop the bombing?”
stops bomb shipment
“Dumb dumb didn’t know bombs are for bombing? Yeah right!”
Like what even is your comment trying to say?
That Biden still carries water for Israel despite recognizing they misuse the weapons we give them
Ok so he should just let these through? And why are you responding as if anyone acted like the intended use of these bombs is a revelation?
No one here is saying this absolves him/us of the US’s role in Israel’s horrific actions. But there are protests happening, people are saying this needs to stop, and a shipment of bombs just stopped. That happened, and it’s worth noting. So we need to keep up the pressure to get this to stop entirely.
We both know he’s not going to just unilaterally end this horror show today.
That this is at best a PR stunt and at worst an outright lie. This one shipment isn't going to do anything to curtail Israel's behavior and the shipment will eventually be delivered anyway.
At least its a slight movement in the right direction, but until the flow is cut off entirely we need to hold his feet to the fire.
Oh come on. This is pretty limp wristed narrative bait. There was one shipment out of many that maybe got held up, temporarily, potentially by accident, that's not the firm moral opposition to a genocide that we seem to think it is
Plot twist: the bombs were intended for use in Rafah and Biden feared they only might be.
Yeah that brief pause achieved nothing except to give his genocide complicit supporters an excuse to continue to make excuses for him.
Biden has been slow-walking arms to Israel for a while but there are forces that want to use Netanyahu's actions against him as if Biden has control of him.