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It's not obvious how he could have prevented Russia from invading Ukraine, or stopped Hamas from invading Israel. Not everything comes back to the U.S. The big
by karaterobot 2y ago
It's not obvious how he could have prevented Russia from invading Ukraine, or stopped Hamas from invading Israel. Not everything comes back to the U.S.
The biggest EV manufacturers in the U.S. are Tesla and Ford, as far as I can tell. No Chinese manufacturer I'm aware of has made significant inroads.
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- guappa 2y agoIf they didn't give Israel billions, they wouldn't have the money to fund the genocide either.
- mensetmanusman 2y agoCould have easily pulled back from offering Ukraine NATO expansion possibilities.
- adamnemecek 2y agoThat's what Ukraine wants though.
- LtWorf 2y agoAnd the parties who don't want it are now illegal so… 100% of the parties want it.
- adamnemecek 2y agoDid they have ties to Russia?
- Calavar 2y agoIf you believe the Kremlin narrative around their motivations for the war, and I think there are a LOT of reasons to be skeptical of that narrative, but even if you believe it, the 2022 invasion plans were likely already well underway in 2020. These things are planned years in advance (Bush was already working on an Iraq invasion plan pre 9/11, for example) and once things are in motion the stakeholders are not easily turned around.
- mensetmanusman 2y agoIt’s not just Kremlin narrative, a large wing of the foreign policy establishment also recognized the risk in published articles as far back as the mid 90s.
- LtWorf 2y agoMilitary people do planning at all times. Doesn't mean that the plans will surely be applied.
- Calavar 2y agoVery much a false equivalence to the point that it sounds like a bad faith argument. There's a massive difference between contingency planning for a hypothetical versus actively planning for something that's is intended to be agenda item #1. The first clue to differentiating a contingency from an active plan is resource allocation. Russia moved about 80,000 troops to the Ukrainian border a full 13 months before the invasion. That's over 50% of the force that would eventually enter Ukraine in February 2022 and also about 25% to 35% of Russia's entire non-conscript military force.
- LtWorf 2y agoAre you skipping the part where NATO was arming and having people in ukraine in the same period?
- rsynnott 2y agoAh, appeasement? Yeah, that famously always works.
- tmnvix 2y agoWorked for resolving the Cuban missile crisis (agreeing to remove missiles from Turkey).
- yakshaving_jgt 2y agoThe war is not about NATO.
- bojan 2y agoBut why? That would be a concession to a criminal dictator, and, historically, that _never_ works. Putin would have just thought up another "reason" to invade in a year or two.
- vanattab 2y agoChinese's EV's can't break into the us market. Biden put 100% special tairf on Chinese ev.
- Calavar 2y agoAnd Trump has said that he intends to cancel that tariff [1]. Honestly, the narrative that Biden enabled Chinese EV encroachment is very bizarre. It reflects almost the exact opposite of the actions the candidates have actually taken. [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-19/trump-welcomes-china-to-build-cars-in-us-in-departure-from-biden https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-19/trump-wel...
- meragrin_ 2y agoI'm not sure you are referencing the correct article. It just mentions Trump threatening to raise the tariffs to 200% and eliminating the EV mandate. I saw nothing about Trump canceling tariffs.
- SubiculumCode 2y agoIt's only odd until you say the candidate is Trump
- SV_BubbleTime 2y agoChina has had an auto industry for decades. And yet zero vehicles in the US. That hasn’t been because of Biden. It’s because they make non-US market vehicles specifically. We can’t make $5000 new vehicles. They can’t pass our regulations and standards while making the profits they like. I worked with Beijing Jeep awhile back. They have no interest in the US market.