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Beau says:
"A dock like this, a pier like this, could move more meals per day than the population of Gaza."
"The goal, at least right now the most immediate goal, is food, water, medicine."
Biden's hot mic moment signals increased pressure, while plans for a dock offer hope for urgent aid delivery in Gaza.
International aid organizations
The full transcript provides detailed insights into the Biden administration's potential strategies to address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and outlines the importance of immediate aid delivery.
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Well, howdy there, internet people, it's Bo again.
So today we are going to talk about Biden's hot mic moment
and what it means.
We'll go over some questions that came in about it.
We'll talk a little bit more about the doc peer thing
and just kind of run through some developments.
Okay, so if you don't know what happened
after the State of the Union,
Biden was having a conversation
and he was talking to a senator and in this he says I told him
BB and don't repeat this but you and I are going to have a come to Jesus meeting at this point
an aide runs up and whispers in his ear and it's just like hey you're on a hot mic
Biden says I'm on a hot mic here. Good. That's good.
it. And if you don't know, BB is a nickname for Netanyahu. And then later on, Biden was
asked if he thought Netanyahu had a greater responsibility to deal with the humanitarian
side of things, something along those lines. And Biden said, yes, he does.
OK, so the questions that came in.
Does this mean that Biden's team is going
to start doing something now?
Biden's team has been doing something.
It's just that the successes haven't really
been reported on that much, and the stuff that
has been reported on hasn't been that successful.
But this does indicate that there's
going to be a ratcheting up.
In fact, I would not be totally surprised
if this was part of that, being caught on a hot mic was part of that.
It's happened before.
So there seems to be a greater willingness from the Biden administration to put a little
bit more pressure.
Next question.
Did blocking him do that?
blocking him change the his perception of things and if you don't know a whole
bunch of people made it really hard for him to get from the White House to the
Capitol for the State of the Union. So there were demonstrators who did that.
Did that do it? No. Did it help? Sure. This is one of those things it's it's a
diversity of tactics thing. It's not going to be just one thing. It's not
going to be one group of people that sways this. It's going to be a
whole bunch of people doing different things. So it didn't do that but it didn't
hurt and it certainly it probably helped, you know. Does this mean the US is going
cut aid to Israel. Now by this they're talking about military aid. Until the US is ready to
redesign its entire presence in the Middle East, that's not a realistic thing. That's not really
going to happen. It's not something that's really on the table and the Israelis know that. So that's
That's not really leverage, not in that way.
But it doesn't mean that Biden couldn't talk about priorities to Bibi.
He could talk to Netanyahu and say something like, you know, we've got a lot of stuff going
on right now.
We got to get supplies to Ukraine, to Taiwan.
We got stuff popping off down in Haiti.
I mean, we've got a lot of stuff, and the political winds,
they're just not blowing in your favor, bud.
So don't worry, we'll get you your stuff.
But it might take a bit, that he could do,
and he might do that.
And then other methods of like exerting pressure
of like exerting pressure and having that thing
and having that moment, that meeting would be something
like, you know, we're gonna get this doc built
and just to show how quickly everything's moving,
we're gonna have military press there on the doc,
just streaming it 24 hours a day.
Subtext being, you better keep this stuff moving.
There are things like that that can be done,
But remember, it's a diplomatic framework.
So it's not gonna, they're not gonna come out
and say any of this in direct fashion.
It's going to be framed around,
oh, we have this other stuff going on or we want to do this.
So everybody sees this great thing
that we're doing together.
But really, it amounts to a police body cam.
All of these things are possible.
what they're going to do, we don't know. The alternative to this is that it was intentional
just to alleviate pressure. I don't think it's that, but it's something that has to be considered.
So I would take it personally. I'm taking it as an indication that Biden understands what occurs
if it does tip from hunger to famine, and how the world is going to respond, and he
wants to avoid that. The bare minimum, I believe that that's the case. I'm sure
that there are more generous assessments, but at the bare minimum, I think that
that's true. So there is a higher likelihood that they work to alleviate
the situation. Okay, so on to questions that came in about the docks. If you
don't know, the US has announced that they are going to build a temporary dock
so large ships can bring supplies and it can roll into Gaza, roll into the
affected areas alleviate the hunger, the lack of medicine, all of that stuff.
Okay, there's questions about weeks and what that means.
There are two plans.
There are two separate plans.
One had to do with using civilians to build the dock.
The other is military.
The other plan is military.
You know, you had people in the comments saying, you know, the CBs could do this in a day.
The CBs couldn't do that in a day.
It would be much faster, though.
But since I said they couldn't do it in a day,
they would certainly do it in a day
just to prove somebody wrong,
because that's how they roll.
If they use the military route, it would move faster.
That really could be two weeks.
That really could be two weeks.
The civilian route will take longer.
What does the rumor mill say?
rumors that suggest units that would have to be involved in building this have been
told to get their stuff together.
Okay?
I mean, that's what it is.
But we don't know that for certain at time of filming.
Why are there two for plans?
The idea of boots on the ground.
Civilians aren't boots.
Now, if they go the military route, I'm sure there will be something, they will frame it
as a joke and be like, these aren't boots on the ground, they're boots on the water
or something like that.
Using the military would move much faster, but up until the last, I don't know, 18 hours,
that wasn't, there were no indications they planned to go that way.
In fact, everything leaned to the other way.
But there may be a change.
Could that change, another question, could that change have to do with him being blocked
in?
Again, maybe.
It's never going to be one thing.
It's going to be a whole bunch of different things pushing in one direction.
And then the last question that came in about the docs was, and this came in a few times,
I said it could be a solution.
does that mean? A doc like this, a peer like this, could move more mils per day
than the population of Gaza. I mean a solution. A peer like this is
something that can offload so much stuff so quickly that it's not even funny.
The concern that some people have is that the Israelis will want to inspect
it and that will slow it down. Maybe, but the capacity of one of these peers, even
if they're checking every box, they should still be able to offload enough
meals for the entire population of Gaza per day. I mean, it would be a solution to
that particular issue, to the issue of food, water, medicine-based stuff. It is
not a solution to the overall situation there, just the humanitarian aspect. So
those are the questions. The hot mic moment, yeah, it indicates something. My
personal belief is that it does indicate that the Biden administration is going
to step up pressure? Is it going to amount to the solutions that people have
latched on to? Probably not, but it doesn't have to be those solutions, right?
I mean, the goal, at least right now the most immediate goal, is food, water,
medicine. There are a whole bunch of different ways that that pressure
could be applied in that quote come to Jesus meeting to make that happen. But
we're going to have to wait and see. We'll have to wait and see the effects
of that meeting should it occur. The doc, if they go the military route, it will be
much faster. It will be much faster. So we're going to have to wait and see what they do.
Anyway, it's just a thought, y'all have a good day.
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