• Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Yeah how could an American F35 throwing an American bomb and American blocking of the UN resolution be Joe Bidens fault?

    I cannot figure out how Joe Biden supplying israel with all the equipment to commit this extreme violation of international law and afterwards promising to protect israel against any retaliation could possibly be relevant here.

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      7 months ago

      A US company selling F35s doesn’t make them responsible for everything that F35 ever does. There were no American decision makers saying to bomb the Iranian embassy. There was a US decision maker when the US (prior administration) killed Qasem Soleimani, blame them for that. You have to see the clear daylight between killing someone with a gun and selling someone a rifle they later use for murder.

      Promising to protect Israel is a tactic to prevent retaliation, obviously. If you asked the Vatican I’d bet they are against Iran retaliating. It doesn’t retroactively cause blame for Israel’s actions to shift to everyone who doesn’t want Iran to retaliate.

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        7 months ago

        Selling weapons to a person or group which you know will abuse them does actually make you guilty.

        Can you address the party where American blocked condemnation of the strike at the UN by the way?

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          7 months ago

          Blocking condemnation doesn’t cause guilt for the initial act. You can agree or disagree with that activity separate from anything else we are discussing.