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Trump is not doing things that different than Biden in foreign policy - how much more damage can Trump do the Palestinians in Gaza that Biden didn't do?

Trump is just more honest, and this embarrasses the professional-managerial liberals who support US imperialism. He's just saying what's happening as opposed to some nonsense about how he is neutral between Palestinians and Israelis while Biden was helping slaughtering Palestinians, Yemen, Syrians, Lebanese etc. while talking about peace.

No need for propaganda outfits when you're being honest.

The lies of upper middle class white liberal imperialists have been exposed - how the US treats Palestinians hasn't changed at all.

Plus some minor things - Trump is more anti-China, which is why he's winding down the Russia thing. From a geopolitical realist standpoint it makes more sense - maybe not to neocons.

Biden had the same attitudes towards enemies like Palestine and unaligned powers in the Middle East and Africa, where the main issue is inaction.

Trump is starting trade wars with close economic allies, threatening to annex territory from other NATO members, and closing down century-old institutions overnight.

There is a difference between seeing Israel killing Palestinians and doing nothing, and actually threatening overt action against what were once allies.

Biden didn't do nothing. He stated firm support for Israel, to the point of declaring himself a Zionist, he sent billions of dollars in arms and aid to Israel, and the US under his leadership vetoed numerous UN resolutions calling for a ceasefire, as well as witheld funding to Palestinian relief organizations.

He got the nickname "Genocide Joe" because of how enthusiastic he almost seemed to be about it. Utter disregard and contempt for Palestinian lives is one area where very little daylight exists between Biden and Trump. Even Kamala Harris didn't deviate from that norm.

Sure, sure, but it’s one thing to genocide your enemies and another thing entirely to turn on your friends.

That's true.

Biden also put sanctions on extremist Israeli settlers who were committing violence against Palestinians in the West Bank and restored hundreds of millions of aid for Palestinians that had been cut by the first Trump Administration.

Remind me which countries Biden threatened to annex? I'm drawing a blank on that.

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