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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Everyone at the side of the water....hmmm doesn't sound like a final solution style genocide. But it does remind me of a magical book with a guy who can fly into burning bushes, walk on wet feet, and get drunk on water. I think he is supposed to teach them how to fish while walking next to water walls or something.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How fast could China build a fully functioning hospital during the height of the pandemic?

We can build a port faster than a few weeks

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

There's thousands of trucks filled with food on the border. How about uhhhhh

Sea deliveries from Greece?

The port will take "a number of weeks" to set up, officials have said, and will be able to receive large ships carrying food, water, medicine and temporary shelters. Initial shipments will arrive via Cyprus, where Israeli security inspections will take place.

So Biden is waiting a few more weeks so everyone in Gaza can starve to death first.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Lol this has to be satire. Yeah dude Biden is not only directly in charge of these aid deliveries, but he's also personally holding up the trucks so he can delay it for a few more weeks.

Get a fucking grip.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

What if I told you they're going to continue with trucks and air drops and add the port too

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Normandy Beach is still littered with Mulberry harbour chunks

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

20 bucks says Israel uses cluster munitions to hit the beach around the temporary port.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

That's a weird spelling of stampede.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Fuck yeah beach landings

[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

I always think people give the US too much credit when they're like "we could end this with a phone call" because things are complex and the US isn't like omnipotent.

And then we just announce we're inventing a new port and fuck you we're using it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't know about the the last part. Biden promised no US boots on the ground. I think the expectation may be for other countries to use it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Apparently there are already boots on the ground unofficially. Saw it somewhere here on lemmy the other day.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The closest any troops are is the postage stamp sized base in Israel. Nobody but the CIA can account for what SOG is doing.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I mean that's not easy either honestly. We dont have "fold up" ports that can handle cargo ships, which is looking like what we need. Its going to take time to get this working.

What we do have though is a stunning amount of logistical expertise in war zones and more cargo planes than fucking god. We sure as shit can be doing no stop aid drops the entire time this port is being built, and we should be.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

True, but our 300 or so c130s can’t fly international from the US straight to the Middle East. Granted there’s plenty of US airbases that are closer, but Air drops are likely to come from a naval operation as much as an air operation. Get a fleet positioned defensively with an aircraft carrier that supports something like the C2-A greyhound and then create a constant supply line for air drops while the fleet defends creation of a militarized seaport.

In the meantime, support more airdrops through https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muwaffaq_Salti_Air_Base which I think is the best route for immediate and steady aid. It requires multiple cargo trips to get there and then to Gaza but then now we’re getting into Israel claiming Jordan is “providing support to their enemy”

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I love how these plans still involve leaving bases from other countries when our veeeeery good ally Israel is literally right there. That we need to take these extraordinary measures rather than just say "ok, time for you to pay up for all the money and diplomatic protection" is embarrassing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Well yeah of course the US wouldn’t do that, we’re already trying to build a military base in Israel. The US is absolutely complicit in what’s going on.

https://theintercept.com/2023/10/27/secret-military-base-israel-gaza-site-512/

I’m in no way claiming that the solution shouldn’t just be an entire UN economic sanction against them, them being declared as war criminals, and then UN peacekeeping forces moving in whether they like it or not (which includes the removal of any US troops that aren’t part of the UN Peacekeeping force). But that’s clearly not going to happen, so my comment was explicitly about logistically how to get supplies to people who need them.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

"Look, we don't actually mind the port, but we need the security of knowing Gazans have to walk over a rickety bridge with trap doors trying to avoid being eaten by crocodiles and sharks with friggin laserbeams."

Netenyahu, probably.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Thank God Biden is actually doing something humane about this. It's infuriating Trump keeps talking about wanting to kill all the Palestinians

[–] [email protected] -4 points 8 months ago

Yeah good ol' genocide Joe is still sending Israel guns and money, he's helping Israel a lot.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Yeah I sincerely hope ol' Joe is done with just the talking and is actually starting the walking with this.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago
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