A WTF Moment in the Middle East (US Dock in GAZA?) || Peter Zeihan
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- In President Biden's State of the Union address a few days ago, he announced plans to build a floating dock to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. This dock would help provide significant food supplies to this area, but at what cost?
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The Netherlands paid for a port in Gaza 3 times. But the money kept disappearing and the pier was never built.
This is why you don't pay for a port and instead just go in and build it.
Never thought to tie partial payments to deliverables? Once I can understand, twice is dumb, but about thrice, nothing nice to say.
sources?
this is because Israel won't allow Gaza to have free access to the sea. This is official Israeli policy.
@@Lirvan The EU built a desalinization plant and right after it was built Hamas went in and tore out all the pipes to make rockets.
"Single most high casualty conflict in recent years that's not in sub sahara". Pause. *Googling Ukraine and Syria*. ???????
And yemen, and myanmar, and libya, and Iraq
More civilians have died in Gaza in 5 months than in Ukraine in 2 years.
Shhh.. don't mention the 600,000+ fatalities in Syria.
Arab vs. Arab "doesn't count" for protest purposes, apparently...
To be fair I think he meant in the middle east. So Ukraine probably doesnt count. Not sure about Syria
@@firefly9838 He did not specify it at all, Sub Sahara isn't even in the middle east that makes no sense. He meant the world, and he was way off. Gaza isn't even top 5
In Gaza, vegetables and other crops are grown. We in Israel used to consume produce from Gaza before the war.
Oh, but that doesn’t fit the narrative.
I used to buy food from Gazans driving thru Israel selling their produce. That stopped with a peace process that put them under terror rule and terror education where few people now innocent of evil.
Not to mention the greenhouses the Israelis left for them in 2005, which the Palestinians promptly destroyed.
Could be crop growth at scale. Peter does usually simplify things into macro terms.
@@user-jx5dm2ih7gyour user name makes you appear like a bot account.
We disagree on Gaza agriculture: Gaza is famous for growing and exporting flowers, growing crops such as barley, wheat, and cotton and exporting them to the world. There are also many citrus fruits that are grown, such as oranges, lemons, potatoes, grapes, cucumbers, figs, strawberries, watermelons, melons, tomatoes.
If Gaza wasn't ruled by Terrorists and instead openly called for peace and cooperation with Israel, Gaza could thrive like no other state in the world. Gaza would have no security concerns and would get all the assistance from Israel it wanted if only it wasn't hellbent on Israel's destruction.
Yeah, that's interesting - you're in agreement with others here who say that the Gaza area does grow food - of the foods you listed, those are mostly not staples to live off of (like rice, wheat, etc.), although you did mention potatoes and I'm sure you weren't giving an exhaustive list, just some produce they were famous for - anyway, so maybe the Gaza area is a net-importer of food, to feed its population, and the crops grown are specialty items for income, or, Zeihan is wrong on this altogether. I appreciate your ideas, as many of us have little close knowledge of the area (or time to look at it, as life is busy), and I've learned that Zeihan's quick-take, big-picture ideas can miss details (or more) and need double-checking, in the comments or elsewhere. I suppose even Zeihan's mistakes are strategically good for him, as it's convenient for the YT algorithm - if you confidently say big ideas that are partly wrong on some aspects, people tend to comment on this, and this engagement gets "The algorithm" to promote him further, as long as enough of the big-picture ideas generate a "Like" (so the rumor goes, on how the algorithm works).
That makes sense.
Potatoes are my favorite citrus fruit 😉
That is good to hear. I hear so often it’s so small and cramped and over crowded. I pictured no open space for farm lands.
I just feel we are heading to a repeat of the Beirut Marine Barracks
They probably want an excuse to ramp things up
Yes we are. We shouldn't be building anything for them.
Yah this trump border wall dumb
Floating Dock? Maybe a USS Cole type situation?
When we pretend to get attacked, it needs a solid backstory.
Clearly this is going to become a mission creep situation.
Definitely creepy.
Prolly just a show of farce
Clearly, the USA can pack up and leave in moments.
This move is 99% politics and 1% aid. It can be ended just as quickly. We will see.
One man's "mission creep" is an industry's "profit opportunity."
I hope you're wrong.
Drill baby, drill!
The first things I think about with this dock into Gaza are the Marine Barracks in Beirut, the Black Hawk Down incident in Mogadishu, and the 9 killed at Abbey Gate.
The only way to deals with this is not to engage with Muslim countries, No refuges, trade or students. Any interaction only leads to problems and terrorism. Stay away and let them manage their own problems.
0:49 oh yeah, make sure to preface your evil thoughts by saying Gaza doesn't have the right to defend itself, as deserves genocide. Evil!
3:28 who cares? Ice rail is not important. You just keep sneakily trying to gaslight people into thinking otherwise. That country is now responsible for the most egregious, heinous genocide in world history with modern weaponry and efficiency.
4:48 "military"? I thought it was a terrorist organization and Gaza didn't have the right to defend itself, Peter?
4:57 how would the Biden admin be aware of the support for the Gaza military and how could you possibly know that? There is no internet or communication allowed by gazans because israel shut it all off. And being that you couldn't know this, why would you even say this?
you don't think about the USS Liberty? that's interesting.
Yeah, remember the USS Liberty. Then the wooden doors
I bet you think about your shekels too
The Berlin Air Lift was not "dropped" by parachute. The cargo planes landed at Templehof and unloaded, took off again.
He said "drop it and fly away". No mention of parachutes. Like if I "drop you off at home", I'm not throwing you out of the moving car.
Drop it and fly away could mean by air or cargo plane but the drop it phrase is really a schute term. Offload is more cargo...
7:10 "... slave states of the Persian Gulf ..." I didn't expect that coming.
It is true. I live there and we are being slaved and abused. And it is hard to get out of it 😥
@@master2002h I'm sorry to hear that you're going through such a difficult situation. A lot of horror stories are told about those places. I hope you get through and get a better future somewhere else.
Fair. And so many Westerner turn a blind eye to enjoy the low taxes while giving massive legitimacy to these nations.
@@master2002h sorry to hear of your plight. A friend of mine was in a somewhat similar situation in a large neighbouring country and believed she would be killed if the family who "employed" her knew she had an escape plan. She managed to get to the Australian embassy and was accepted as a refugee. I hope you and the others you know get out of your situation. Best wishes!!!
@@joythought First of all what low taxes? Not in the west am at!!
Secondly is beyond STUPID to blame the so-called "WEST" for the middle east being a shithole. Get off the victim mentality, these people need to take accountability for themselves.
Zeihan is doing a weird about face in this video from basically everything he’s said about the issue to date. Really undermines confidence in his analysis.
He totally lost me as a viewer here as far too much dis and mis info as well is obviously lacking research for his take and claims, sooooo far off base! The gas fields well mapped out off of the Gaza coast alone would change all his ideas... I am so disheartened by what we are doing to Palestine & her people. Bombs & 5 month late food support, that's the WTF?!!!!! Peace out!
I don’t want to jump the gun or anything but it seems like recently he’s just been parroting Biden admin talking points
@@Mandatory-Fun Right
When it comes to the puppet masters' areas of concern, like the Dems and Biden, Peter must fall in line and promote the narrative of the day. So sad.
This is a really good one.
This whole series gonna end with a bear showing up behind him one day. Im amazed with your trekking.
When you said that, I thought Russia showing up to Israel before I caught what you were saying.😂 let’s hope not. But just in case people that are going to write the next book in advance!
Lol
That’s will be a great selfie.
I was thinking the same thing! I hope he keeps a big bore BFR.
I'm confused, I saw a video of Zeihan talking a few days ago saying the true Gaza casualty number is closer to 10,000 deaths but now he's saying it's 35,000 deaths which is the Hamas number. Where did he get the original 10,000 estimate figure and why is that no longer the case?
Ah yes, the 'Hamas number' which is considered fully credible by the US State Department and all international organizations.
There are more than 35,000. There are thousands of dead Gazans buried under the rubble of buildings, not even considered in that figure.
Optics
Buddy, Peter is effectively a mouthpiece for the DoD. That number was useful before a shift in strategy. If you are still thinking about this in terms of “Hamas number” vs “real number”, you are a couple of steps behind reality.
@@playea123 I can tell you took a huge hit off that bong.
@@incisivecommenter5974 which part is confusing you?
Just amazes me that they can provide 2 million meals a day to some third world country but the United States is full and I mean full of homeless people including ex veterans who fought for that country, it's disgusting😢
Two points:
1 the pier is very unlikely to happen
2 US multi billionaires could house all the US homeless out of their loose change and noone is physically stopping them.
3) he can unilaterally take a lot of foreign action. To do anything addressing our domestic issues, he has to go through a Congress which is currently held hostage by a dozen or so right wingers who don't seem to understand what "compromise" means.
Disingenuous comment. We have programs, funding, facilities, and people already in place to take full care of every single homeless veteran and most homeless civilians. Don't trash talk MY wonderful country!
It is not an either or situation. Grow up.
@@zackn8745 4) Biden has never cared about working with anyone or being stopped by the courts for doing something unconstitutional. Biden will break any law to do whatever he wants, and will also cry about not being able to do something he doesn't truly want to do.
I've said it before,
If ol Pete told me today was going to be warm and sunny, I'd bring a coat and umbrella.
I don’t know if I would call Erdogan’s Turkey “democratic”… there’s a saying about their elections “we have free elections, but in no way are they fair elections”.
When he tried to connect Democracy and Turkey I though the exact same thing! Has he done any research into Erdogan? This video was a total clown show. Comments are great though.
You should maybe read a book or see his other videos. He has done a lot of detail on Turkey and Erdogan and covers his "democratic leanings". He does in later videos connect things to quick and doesnt put in the caveats like he should. Possibly an outcome of doing videos in nowhere or trying to rush through complex issues quickly or keeping up with a youtube schedual. Either way, he does make the errors he has already clarified, which I guess only fit if you have seen or read his work before. @@BitcoinMeister
As an American seeing how the 2020 election was stolen you really have nothing to say about democracy or elections. So are you Americans just like in 2020 keep your heads down in your mouth shut. No one wants to hear the lecture from you now.
also elon musk suspended X when erdogan asked him to do this. 2 days X was down due to elections
Yeah, everyone seems to forget how many Kurds he's killed. The world talks about a Palestinian state why not a Kurdish one
Normally start my mornings watching your videos, now I’m on the other side of the world, it’s my afternoons! Interesting to be in a country you’re discussing.
This seems very "Jimmy Carter" 1980.
This is going to get a bunch of US Military KIA.
The Biden administration just wants to deflect from their failure with the Afghanistan withdrawal by making a bigger mistake.
That was Reagan, and the Marine Barracks.....
maybe that's the plan to draw us in?...🤔
@@davidjones6389 You're both correct.
@@killbot1963 Qui bono? Oh, yes, Ratheon, Boeing, General Dynamics, ...
So good to hear your perspective!!
Great points to bring up Peter. Thanks.
“C’mon Jack”. “Don’t be a dog faced, pony boy about this”.
Ah, the good old days when he could complete a sentence.
*dog faced pony soldier
I’ll never stop thinking about the animated corpse saying this for all my days
Peter said Biden knows all the names of the leaders. Given that he thinks Mitterand runs France, the names he remembers are: Golda Meir, Yasser Arafat, King Hussein, Gamal Abdel Nasser...oh, no it's Muhammad Anwar es-Sadat, ...
It's ok, he's just responding to the trueinananshabadaprizure... But he's also playing polizzisshizzshu
@@ryankuypers1819 Ah yes, apparently he recently gave an entire State of the Union address without completing a sentence.
You don't have to like the guy, but comments that detached from reality only make you look like a cultish zealot incapable of independent thought. Maybe layoff the Fox News or whatever source you are getting this nonsense from?
"they grow no food themselves"
Wrong! A simple Google Earth picture will show you the many farms in Gaza. Before Israelis we're completely expelled from Gaza in 2004, (by the Israeli government) they were an exporter of vegetables. Gaza continues to have many farms.
I wish Peter wasn’t so self assured of himself, he constantly says incorrect things with 100% confidence, and never corrects his content in light of new information
Where does the water come from?? They grow no food themselves is correct.
There may be Trace food production in Gaza but effectively mathematically it's as close to 0% as what matters.
Yes they have some farms but, also have 0 chance of feeding the ~600k population.
Food importer, not food or energy independent.
One of his big issues
Nothing like a "Turnip Winter" to focus the mind
They can grow food. It’s a fertile area.
There is not infrastructure for mass food production.
They destroyed all the fields and green houses left for them when Israel pulled out from gaza in 2005. Literally , the next day.
Sold! I like where you see this going.
So there´s all the setup for a "black hawk down" moment
WTF moments happen in Gaza everyday.
The Ruskies are building bases near the border with Israel. If the Russians are stupid enough to manufacture a reason to level Israel then Israel will start with them and end with Iran on fire.
That’s usually what happens when you are lead by a death cult Isis Nazis
As it should until it’s a parking lot.
@@MirzaLLC Nazionist detected!!!
Does Peter Zeihan have a fan club? We can call ourselves "Zeihan-ists". 😃
Sure, I support Israeli sovereignty
🤢
You might as well call yourselves: clueless idiots that fall for CIA propaganda.
No Peter doesn’t even know Turkey supports the Muslim brotherhood how ridiculous
You can also call yourself naive
Thank you 🙏
I bet you're putting more thought into this than they did.
I don't have to bet you are obviously wrong. US Government thousands of employees Peter zahan one man try to do the math I know it's hard but try
There's being skeptical and distrustful of politicians and then there's just being daft.
Isn't that a scary thought
It’s atleast among the same lines tho. It’s not beneficial for Israel to have that level of US military present in the region so whatever the end goal is it’s to circumvent Israeli bullshit.
I'm pretty sure they're thinking, "How do we get a couple million more people to migrate to the United States?"
Gee. I wonder if Hamas will target US soldiers. Hmmm.
I wonder is Israeli soldiers will mistakenly target US soldiers? USS Liberty incident, 1967.
Yep they will. And guess what? That's why a nation pays soldiers to do soldiering. Every now and then the country needs some soldiering to be done so they go hey we pay you guys to be soldiers we need you to do that now!
let em try
They will
Maybe not if that food is viewed as a lifeline for them.
Thank you
The US should a) make sure the food deliveries don't contain weapons, b) make sure there's enough to feed everybody, and c) leave food distribution to the Gazan people. No US boots on shore. No broken relationship with Israel. No further reason to claim Israel's war against Hamas is starving civilians.
If it's such a prison, how did all the weapons get in there?
He same way they get into actual prisons. Born yesterday were you? Well congratulations.
@@kurtwicklund8901 there's a difference between toothbrush knives and rocket systems
Ask Bibi. He and others in Israeli Intelligence and government admitted to propping up Hamas.
Israel literally funded Hamas so Palestine couldn't create an official government for a 2 state. You can read this from mainstream media just search Google. Not a conspiracy.
Israel/bibi never wanted a 2 state. This is all about land. It's why bibi has allowed 3500 new settlements in gaza. Each war is a Land grab. Just look at his recent comments pushing back on biden about a 2 state.
@@jakeawad2531exactly
It is mainly to score points domestically. There is a US presidential election.
And internationally. But yeah, Biden did this mostly to get the left wing of the Democratic party off his ass.
no one in America actually cares
@@jf9593The good folks in Dearborn Michigan do care, and they have the swing vote in a key swing state.
Yeah. Zeihan is wish casting. He exposes his personal bias by describing Gaza as an "open air prison" that "grows nothing". He's smart enough to know that's BS.
@@jf9593there’s a large number of potential democrat voters that do care. Biden’s biggest hitting point from his own voter base is his stance on the Israel war so it stands to good reason that he’s walking that back now because he’s worried about losing any votes whatsoever
Thanks!
Characterizing Turkey as democratic is quite a far stretch.
How
If that’s a stretch then calling israel democratic is a joke.
Israel has one of the most robust democracies in the world what are you on@@Ramirez83786
More democratic. Some places are actually still fuedilistic around that neighbourhood.
@Ramirez83786
IL is by far more democratic the TR
Try mocking Erdogan publicly and see what happens to you.
Also, TR is behind IL on all democratic statistics
"Not in Sub-Saharan Africa". For those of who live and work down here, that's a hell of a caveat and one reason why its tough take the rending of garments seriously from some corners when no one gave 2 deuces about Tigray and the 250-500k casualties there way back in the distant age of 2022.
I think it's more about informatics. What reliable data is available? Statistically, Africa, overall has heinous amounts of deaths that can be accredited to genocidal ideologies or brutal civil wars that have mass collateral damage. It's a goofy thing to say, I agree. But the logical point is clear that places that are "stable" relative to African insanity shouldn't be so insane. What is the logic of these leaders????
How've things been between Rwanda and Congo lately? Just because you live in a peaceful area doesn't mean there aren't other areas that meet the description. As you would know, it's a big place.
Gotta love the whataboutism...
I don't see no country parachuting supplies in Sudan.. no ones protesting nowhere.. westerns and arab muslims are so hypocrite lol was funny if Africa wasn't in such condition
@@sapereaude6274As far as we know Rwanda is still being a bitch and funding rebels even now
The worlds biggest example of “eff around and find out”. All that aid pouring in over the decades amounted to what?
Shit loads of fraud
I would ask the same of Israel to be honest. All that US aid pouring in for decades amounted to a bunch of shiny new toys and kicking out people living in the west bank? It certainly doesn't seem like security considering how easily they ignored people coming over the border in hand gliders somehow
tunnels, rockets, flags, guns...
people lived
@@stuart940 that’s it though. They could have thrived. But thanks to Hamas’ theft, the best we can say is that they lived.
Would like to mention when you say Palestinians have to have all this aid because they don't grow anything. It seems obvious to me that they excel at growing children.
This is very charitable action, the dock, it must be applauded and assisted by everyone where you are called to do so. The little people have to be protected and assisted in living.
If it wasn't for those hated Americans, you and me wouldn't be here, where we flower.
May GOD bless America abundantly.
They create their own turmoil. And export it.
America!
Islam
Islam is fastest growing Religion on earth…
@@scarletlady3727 by the sword… nothing to be proud off… many people blabber about the Palestinians this the Palestinians that … when the world should ask the Arab world a vastly more important question, where are your Christians Arab world?!? and where are your Jews Arab world?!?
hahahaha what is usa doing in middle east then?? why they want allies?? to save their printing machine(dollar) in which they can remain hegemon
and... they had agro infrastructure there left by the Israelis (who grew a ton of food there!), but destroyed it. They are using the piping to make rockets, for instance. And the greenhouses were just destroyed ... They could have had SO much more if they had used all their efforts and resources for growth and positive actions instead of death and destruction.
Kind of like they did to the former SodaStream factory in the West Bank(?)
sounds like your trying to get to the "they could have had a singapore on the med" arguement to which i answer with all there resources controlled by thier jailer?
In Jailer, are you referring to Egypt?@andrewmcewan8081
Do you ever read the bullshit you type?
Islamic terrorists are not Singaporeans
The story of the frog and the scorpion being prepared.
Great content, avid follower.
With many bleeding heart types, it's more important that it looks like you're doing good than doing actual good.
Ok but is letting thousands trapped in the conflict starve. Has America fallen that far that it forgets the first word of the key phrase "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness".
This is the kind of pseudo-intellectual comment this channel encourages
@@joythought About 35% of America has, unfortunately.
Well said!
@@wafflesaurus_supreme what 35% are you talking about? Keep in mind, we are talking about meddling in another countries problems halfway across the Globe. I would argue all these proxy wars and genocides America funds are Major Roadblocks to many peoples "life, liberty and pursuit of happiness". What we have been funding in Yemen is Reprehensible. We destabilize, then throw money and weapons on the problem to create a bigger one.
They do grow food in Gaza. There are agricultural fields. Not enough to be self sufficient
If Hamas spent a fraction of the aid that has been spent on tunnels and diverted to the elites on agriculture development, who knows what positive developments there would have been. Just saying.
Goats
Could've been if not for Hamas.
These were understandably some of the first areas the IDF took over.
Pete: "35,000 makes this the highest casualty conflict in recent years that is not in sub-Saharan Africa."
Ukraine: "Excuse me?"
You were 100% wrong on Gaza agriculture: Gaza is famous for growing and exporting flowers, growing crops such as barley, wheat, and cotton and exporting them to the world. There are also many citrus fruits that are grown, such as oranges, lemons, potatoes, grapes, cucumbers, figs, strawberries, watermelons, melons, tomatoes.
There’s a floating “dock” already to go floating in the Pitt River, BC Canada ! It’s the old 520 floating bridge from Seattle.
Zelhan dude have you ever looked to the north in Gaza ? I have seen plenty of farm fields along the north of Gaza and that is me just looking on google maps. It doesn’t look like it could support a large population. But I have seen plenty of fields & orchards.
but they don't have a jailer controling there water supply and the export of the harvests
@@andrewmcewan8081but they can't run it either. Just like Arabs would discover oil on their own by the year 2525
Are they still there or were they nicked in recent land grabs?
Zeihan is an idiot who thinks he is so smart because he covers all the bases so later on he can say he was correct in his predictions.
Watched a video yesterday by someone who has experience with the floating docks. According to him, it requires daily maintenance to keep it going, i.e. boots on the ground/shore to build and keep going. Military personnel that build the dock can't just up and leave unless they are going to train Gazans how to maintain the dock.
I think his implication was that they could leave and abandon any such infrastructure.
Over confidence often overtakes curiosity thereby overlooking lacunae that are seen by others as vital to understanding and necessary for effective problem solving.
this feels off
It's worth pointing out, that just because Biden says we're building a dock, doesn't mean we're going to "actually" build a dock. Timeline is 60 days and the early costs will be low enough that Biden could cancel it, and not lose much. Announcing we're doing something so opposed to by Israel does give Biden the leverage to say "Ok, Bibi, you don't want a dock, then open the boarder crossings and let aid in via trucks." Given a bad choice and a worse choice, I hope Israel blinks first.
Long term, a serious look at the costs of American involvement in a region we don't economically need and a growing decline in the appetite of American voters to be the "police" of the World's Sh!tholes is long overdo. The far right government of Israel made a mistake by not planning for the civilian needs for food, medicine and housing. You can accuse them of being clueless at best, or at worse using this as a way to solve the Gaza problem with ethnic cleansing BUT they really did screw up. Too much of the world that doesn't care about Palestinians, have progressives who do, and voters increasingly uncomfortable with the civilian deaths.
Within your comment "....a growing decline in the appetite of American voters.." brings to mind a growing reason for the dock. Dissatisfied Arab voters in Michigan re: Biden's support for Israel. Michigan is a swing state with 200-300 thousand Arab-Americans.
Politicians promise things then quietly renege on them afterward all the time.
Truly @@darrenmclaughlin1362
So do diplomats.
Welcome to i international politics. Hand-wringers need not apply. .
It was a dock before he said it wasn't a dock.
Or
It wasn't a dock before he said it was a dock.
Political Galaxy Brain
Long time viewer, can not recall a prior look of peplexedness on our good host.
The Palestinians received free greenhouses from the Israelis.
They tore them down to make scrap metal and scrap plastic.
Those greenhouses were making food, until the Palestinians got them
Even looking at google maps you see farms within the walls
Do some algebra. How many acres of farm land is there? What is the productivity in calories per acre? How many folks could that feed? What is the population of the Gaza? I think you are mistaking land that is kept clear of buildings for converging fields of fire for actual agriculture.
There's 2 Million people in Gaza. Him much farm land do you think that takes?
@@richdobbs6595sounds like they have population problem. IDF is fixing that problem now.
@@richdobbs6595before Israelis left Gaza they had farms there. Why Palestinians don’t grow anything on farms they took over? Growing things in the desert is hard, begging is easier.
@@MirzaLLC Why are you addressing this comment to me? It is not a response to anything I stated. Are you short some brain cells?
I’m sure they’ll complain about the meals😂
*accidentally sends all non halal meals*
Already complaints on TH-cam
@@talmoskowitz5221 LOL
I love this!!!!!
Always keep your options open and always keep em guessing
Those deaths count will need citations.
it's the number everyone outside the israelli government has come to check for yourself count the outlets useing it
The IDF claims a 2:1 Civ to Militant death ratio. They also claim to have killed 10K militants.
And what other source do you have? Yes, the locals provide the number but they are the most accurate available.
@@tradeprosper5002 the majority of the news orgs most western governments . All the Arab governments I've heard speak on it and most of the global souths as well .basically everybody except the Israeli government
By local you mean Hamas...
I thought we were living in a post-American world... Here I've been watching all these videos this last month only to learn that we're going back into the Middle East!
It's complicated. Normally Republicans would be screaming to support Crooked Bibi, but they've been taken over by their Nazi wing. So it's up to the Dems to bail everyone out as usual, and be called evil for doing so.
I see what you mean, but detaching from the world is a gradual process. Overall America is less and less willing to actively police the planet but there are still a lot of people who think America should do so, and politics is chaotic so naturally the political trends of the day tend to teeter totter back and forth a lot.
Did you watch the video? It's about a complete US withdrawal from the Middle East on the table.
Only a lost person keep walking arround in circles
It will for Israel. I suppose the question is how far, as Israel serving US interests is probably oin the decline. And allie like Israel who becomes a liability could easily lose its benifits.
I love how your avatar is "Hello, I am a political observer" and the thumbnail is "I am hiding in the woods so that the government can not probe me".
Those are some interesting developments. It should get very interesting in the Eastern Mediterranean in the coming months.
“Biden was the one who pulled out of Afghanistan”
Maybe we can repeat the same in the Middle East?
Why stop there?
Peter should replace the current press secretary that’s how good the spin is here. Please google mosul and compare casualties……. Also 35k is a lot how many of them were enemy combatants. He said 35k dead not 35k citizens which means he knows….
The Israeli govt says they have a accuracy rate of 1/3 so that means about 20k are civilian casualties
Also 35k "according to the H__ run health ministry," the same people who said 500 💀at the al-Ahli Hospital 12 minutes after it was hit then revised that number down to like 50 when they found out it was their own rocket that hit them.
Right I forgot to add that the 30k includes Hamas fighters and people killed by Hamas. I have no issue with the fact that the human toll is dreadful but the pressure being put on Israel here is mind boggling. It’s urban warfare it’s ugly and something we all wish would end…. It also happens to be necessary in this case. Pray for Israel’s swift victory and may god forgive the unfortunate human toll extracted
A serious question can you find out why and who and how is it that every Congress member who was elected or re-elected has to sign or is encouraged to sign a contract protecting the interests of Israel
Gaza shares a border with Egypt. There is an International Peacekeeping base about ten miles from the border in Egypt. Why can't humanitarian aid come through there? Because Egypt won't allow it.
Because Israeli protest are stopping trucks from coming in
Where have you been
?
2 million meals a day is a lot of aid. did congress pass this?
It probably falls under the discretionary military spending budget. Some unallocated funding is always available so the US military can be fast and flexible without requiring congress to spend 3-5 months dotting the I's and crossing the t's.
I think the aid comes from international contributions already waiting for delivery.
US is just trying to work around Israel impeding access.
@@iainwade And Egypt impeding access.
They certainly approved for billions of dollars towards Israel each and every year.
Did Congress pass the latest shipments of weapons ?
“They grow no food of their own.”
Israel left their greenhouses and farms when they left in 2005, but Hamas razed them. They have been the biggest recipient of aid per capita in recent decades. They could have internal food sources if that had been their focus.
I’m sure the Israelis left the greenhouses in a virus just fine, just like the British didn’t trash Hong Kong when they left.
The goal of Hamas has always been to use food aid for the population and use monetary assistance for weapons.
They had farming. Israel uprooted that when they went in after Oct. 7. Just like the cemetaries, schools, hospitals and anything else they sadistically destroyed as collective punishment.
@@donaldkasper8346 And the goal of Israel has always been to support Hamas.
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Not many know, but when there were Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip in 1967-2005, they were prosperous agricultural settlements. The land of Gaza is very fertile. It's a shame that instead of investing in the agriculture and economy of Gaza, Hamas built tunnels about 310 miles long (the Gaza Strip is about 141 sq mi). This is one of the reasons why there is so much destruction of buildings in Gaza. It stems from the fact that when a tunnel is destroyed, all the buildings above it collapse along with it. The number of tunnels in the Gaza Strip is unfathomable. Hamas invested tens of millions of dollars every month in digging new tunnels and maintaining them. The cost of digging a kilometer (about 0.3048 miles) of one tunnel is estimated at about 500 thousand dollars.
This op reminds me of the marines in Beirut in the mid 80s.
Do you think history repeats itself? Is that likely? how often does that ever happen? ;)
@@user-xo3ck9yt9q more so than people realize. After WW2 we drew down and didn’t maintain our military and you have the bad things that happened to our military in Korea. Happened again between Korea and Vietnam.
Look to Europe. Everyone wanted to stay out of the European wars prior to WW1 and again WW2. Again The patronizing to Nazi germany by letting them take land to maintain peace only to pull the world into it. Now people are saying the same thing with Putin and eastern Ukraine in order to maintain peace. The list can go on and on. As soon as a people forgets about or thinks it could never happen it happens.
History may not repeat but it does rhyme. @@user-xo3ck9yt9q
When in doubt, throw money at it. 😅
the American way
It's called food for starving people.
Are you that easily confused or that callous?
@@ericmaclaurin8525there's enough starving homeless in USA
@@ericmaclaurin8525 it's called stop funding isreal if they don't let you threw. It's called a backbone
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I get that they do not grow enough in Gaza and need an external support, but they did have something and could have more if less resources went to Hamas
please makw a video about the Geopolitical prospects of Finland
So, who is saying 35,000 deaths?
Hamas lmao it took Israel months to decrease Oct 7 death count to 1200 but people will just regurgitate Hamas released casualty numbers that statisticians have already said are incorrect
The "News". But the figure is barely being updated as it so obviously is not based on counts that can be verified. There are thousands still buried in the rubble.
Exactly
The official number from the Gazans is lower, but it is also understood to be a lowball estimate. They haven't come close to digging everyone out of the rubble.
The Gaza health ministry said as of February 29 over 30,000 people have died in Gaza in the current conflict as reported by CNN.
Wow Turkey is a Democracy? Sorta like Russia is a Democracy 😂😂😂
Well, Erdogan looked like he might lose the last Turkish election. He didn't. Perhaps it was a bit rigged but it is significantly more democratic than the sham of Russian democracy in 2024.
sorta like hungary and the way israel wants to b . remember those judicial reforms
@@andrewmcewan8081elections are probably more fair and clear in turkey compared to the US.
@@johnmay9699 ok I believe u really not any international organisation that checks these things but u not the American courts after investigation but you .honest . I do
@johnmay9699 gurantee the elections in Turkey are more legitimate that the USA. Especially after watching 40 mins of the guy eho laid out how literally EVERY 3 LETTER AGENCY conspired in the 2020 elections, to get Trump out, & more war going. Since the original plan was war war war once Hill-Billary got elected in 2016. That didn't work out as planned, & so the Dimentia Meat puppet with a push over the finish line from all the "Watchers of citizens Domestic Now" are working to steer thos next election as well.
Now Congress says they just won't ratify a Trump win, & will crown *_TaterHead O'Bribehim_* for yet another disastrous term where the Pentagon & PZ's buufuu buddies at Wang'ley can control the narrative.
The only hope is the tide is changing w/Victoria Nuc'land & a few others being pushed out of their positions of constantly aiming for war with Russia. The shear fact that PZ & TaterHead both think more cash to Urkra-kbotzi's will somehow shift the balance of power & oust Pooty, shows juat how unbelievably knucklehead'ish those 2 mouthpieces ☝️ really are.
Imagine if gazan'z dident destroy the green houses left there by settlers.
Much of the food provided is US MREs which contain 2200 calories each.. Also the Berlin airlift used airports, not airdrops. Also northern gaza is about four miles wide. Distribution of food can be done on foot.
These problems are the "House that Jihad built."
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Are you lubbockmike now?
bet your views r balanced and well thought out , and thats just from reading your name
I love the comments more than the video. 🥰
Did anyone else catch the “gutter, uae, and Saudi Arabia”..lol.
Why do I get the feeling that this floating meals on wheels was cooked up overnight? Possibly right after the primaries in Michigan?
I saw videos of Palestinians in the south throwing rocks at the aid trucks moving north. If that is how they treat Egyptian trucks delivering aid, I don't have high hopes for the US military.
And what will happen when US soldiers get killed (or maybe kidnapped) trying to build this dock?
What about the required environmental studies and permits? 😂
And the feasibility studies and bonding with 6 months of review time. Funny isn't it how things easily things get done around the world in a crisis where back here in civilization we find a way to spend 25% of our total budget and time schedule trying to figure out a way to get started.
LOLOLOLOLOL
@@jackwillmore2319 100%
I agree😊
So how does this all affect professional golf, the Saudi PIF, PGA Tour deal?
They absolutely grew food themselves, you can see the fields from satellite. What kind of prison has beachfront mansions, night clubs and Bugattis? Want to seen an open air prison? Talk about North Korean. I'm so over this gaza bs.
I have literally never watched a full TH-cam ad. 😂
I have never even seen a TH-cam ad unless the video creator splices them in, then I just fast forward. Thanks to firefox.
Why isn't anyone addressing the fact that there are still AMERICAN HOSTAGES in Gaza??? Supplying aid to a foreign power that is holding US citizens as hostages seems not only counterintuitive, but dangerous for any American anywhere in world.
Biden
Because the hostages are a lower political liability than the damage of supporting Israel, or not supporting Gaza to democrats.
doesn't fit elitist/swamp agenda
Because the people of Gaza and Hamas are being separated and need to be. People deserve aid.
Because they’re not real Americans they’re Jews, who have dual citizenship who live in Israel that’s not real Americans kind of like they’re not real Americans that Obama drone struck in Arabia. Anyone with a brain understands this. You an American noticed. They opted not to live in America.
As a German, I would very much disagree with the democratic and positive stance on turkey.
Looking at the strip on Google maps, am I crazy or isn't much of the land farmland?
Doesn't produce enough food to feed everyone.
@@allydr90 im sure you're right but I was just pointing out Peter wasn't completely correct when he said they don't produce food.
I heard no boots on the ground.
The generals will issue the soldiers crocs, so technically it will be true.
Don't worry they will wear running shoes.
But no one said anything about Boats in the Bay!
None of the Arab countries are formulating joint large scale operations to help their 'brothers and sisters' in Gaza ...... do you wonder why?
if the dock is in north gaza wont distribution be thru the IDF?
Who's casualty numbers are we relying upon?
You have seen video of the destruction and knowing the blockade of food and water yet you doubt that incredibly large numbers of people have died?? Of course no one knows exactly how many think of thousands buried under rubble.
everybody except israel
Even the idf admitted Palestinian authority numbers are reliable and it's what they use
@@andrewmcewan8081Lol yes because Hamas is a very reliable source 😂😂😂
@@blackluposThe Gaza Health Ministry is pretty reliable. Have you not noticed that even the Pentagon use their numbers? Even Israeli intelligence use their numbers.
Can you speak about what is happening in Haiti? 😬
Oh yeah! Haiti. I second this topic request.
"Allow them to at least live" ...so humane
Imagine being 27 miles from where you parked your car. Lost in the mountainous woods. After going in circles for 11 hours you come across Peter talking to his phone about middle eastern politics