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Beau questions Republican officials suggesting giving aid to Israel instead of Ukraine, debunking the notion that the US cannot support both nations and criticizing the potential negative international message.
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Well, howdy there internet people, it's Beau again.
So today we're going to talk about the United States
and aid and the capabilities of the United States.
And we're going to talk about a position
that some officials have taken,
particularly those who are Republicans
and in the US House of Representatives,
when it comes to providing aid.
And whether or not that position
actually makes any sense, because a whole bunch of questions have come in about it.
And generally speaking, the position is, hey, any aid that we were going to give to Ukraine,
we should give to Israel instead, because we can't do both.
That's the general tone of it, and there's been a whole bunch of questions about that.
First, I would like to point out it should surprise exactly nobody that the Republican
party has once again taken a pro-Russian position. Not a common theme there at all.
I would also point out that Republicans in the US House of Representatives get absolutely no say
in this right now. They still don't have a speaker. So even if the United States wanted to provide aid
to Israel. They wouldn't really be able to do anything about it because they
can't manage their own affairs. Perhaps they should focus on that rather than
foreign affairs. More importantly, as far as the US can't do both, I understand
it's very hard for members of the House of Representatives to keep up with stuff
like this, but planes have already landed. The United States is doing both. At time
the filming, and this is early, there's already been a plane of a certain type
of ammunition that Israel needed. So the idea that we can't do both is, I mean, we
are, so that doesn't seem to be a real issue. It's also worth noting that they
They wouldn't need the same things.
They would not need the same things.
Israel is not putting together a military and replacing massive amounts of losses and
trying to counter a full-scale conventional war.
Israel is going to need bits and pieces of little things that they don't have a large
supply of.
That's what they're going to need.
It's not even remotely the same.
If somebody thinks that Israel would need the stuff that we've been giving to Ukraine,
which generally speaking is stuff that's like 20 or 30 years old, they probably aren't
somebody you should seek an opinion about this type of stuff from.
More importantly, Israel doesn't need our help.
Not really.
They'll need little bits and pieces of stuff, but it's not the same.
And then from a foreign policy standpoint, I would suggest that anybody saying the United
States cannot provide aid to two different nations, one fighting a very large conflict
them when fighting a relatively small one, perhaps they should think about the
message that sends on the international stage. It's another example of people who
are interested in social media clicks putting out a message for a domestic
audience and not understanding how it would be read overseas.
The U.S. is actually super lucky that Israel did need something because you have people
in the U.S. government out there saying, well, we can't help.
We don't have anything.
It's not a message you wanted to telegraph around the world, just saying.
Israel doesn't need, I don't think they really need anything.
They may request small bits and pieces, it's going to be high tech stuff, or it's going
to be specific types of ammunition, maybe stuff that's really useful against tunnels,
stuff like that.
That's what they're going to want.
It isn't going to cause a conflict with what we're sending to Ukraine.
If that conflict arises, it's because a bunch of politicians created the issue because at
At this point, it just seems like they want Russia to win, and I mean, whatever at this
point.
I mean, it's not like they can even hide it anymore.
I personally do not see this as a huge issue.
I don't think that this is going to become one.
I think those saying that we can't do it once they eventually find out that the US has already
done it, I would imagine, at least hope, that that talking point would go away.
Again, at time of filming I'm aware of one giant plant load arriving with a
specific type of ammunition that Israel requested. By the time this goes out, my
guess is that there's going to be more. Anyway, it's just a thought. You'll have a
Have a good day.
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