There was a reason every president for last 50 yrs before Trump refused to be bullied or tricked into invading Iran, and it wasn’t because of the likes of Chuck Schumer
The Iran war and Netanyahu’s & Likud’s ability to pull America into war under the weakest foreign policy minds ever to hold the reigns of power at white house was included w/in a range of Overton possibilities, in part, because of inaction & lack of accountability & truth telling by previous Dems
But it’s worth noting that the critiques levied at previoous Dem presidents like Biden that they could and should hold to acct with regards to Israel and speak honestly about their actions was correct at the time. And also that it was jmportant not just morally - but strategically and geopolitically
Of course none of this means Trump’s actually developed an actual conscience
It’s just this
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