• Corran1138@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I think most, like me, read the article and found it wanting. The USA has limited resources and has to decide what’s going to get priority. The Biden Administration’s decision to focus its foreign policy on countering growing Chinese global influence is a decision that has to be made in the context of these limited resources. So blaming the US for a war that both sides have wanted and worked toward for 50 years while every US President has put in far more resources to try to prevent that war seems like the journalist doesn’t understand the basics of practically anything having to do with foreign policy. But must be the USA’s fault because we didn’t decide to spend more of our limited resources on a conflict that never goes away.

  • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    If I read this correctly, the US has spent 50 years trying to broker a peace deal and neither side has ever been able to come to agreement.

    To me that sounds like a peaceful settlement is not actually possible as the only “peace” either side will accept is that the other side ceases to exist.

    So the current administration decided to slow its efforts in this area and like clockwork, the smouldering tensions between the two burst into the current round of senseless bloodshed.

    And this is somehow the US gov’s fault?