Posted on 08/26/2023 2:48:21 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
"He doesn't understand America needs Israel. It's not just that Israel needs America," Haley said in the interview. "They are the front line of defense when it comes to taking on Islamic terrorism. They're the front line of defense when it comes to taking on Iran. They've been an amazing partner with us. And as president, I will absolutely have the backs of Israel so that they can have the back of America."
In a statement to Fox News Digital, Ramaswamy said "By the end of my first term, the US-Israel relationship will be deeper and stronger than ever because it won’t be a client relationship, it will be a true friendship. The centerpiece of my Middle East policy in Year 1 will be to lead 'Abraham Accords 2.0' which will fully integrate Israel into the Middle East economy. A brighter future of Israel and good for the US."
The Ramaswamy campaign's communications director Tricia McLaughin added: "She is intentionally misleading people and it should be called out for what it is."
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Ramaswamy not being a registered Republican is no biggie, he was a Libertarian, and Trump was once a Dem as was Reagan.
The Ukraine War, on the left and right, is increasingly being viewed as a grift and war profits funnel, Americans on both sides are also increasingly not isolationist but neither are they interventionist, they have no problem with the military upholding national defense but they don't want it to be used to further US economic interests, and right or wrong, all across YT, it seems like more and more are viewing the Iraq War, US involvement in Syria, etc, as proxy wars for Israel, so who knows where the debate on that will be 5-10 years from now.
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1:18-2:02 below is what truly set them off. This, plus a plan whereby US military aid (along with no need or far less of a need for US troop involvement in the ME via an expanded Abraham’s Accord, threatens the interventionist funding.
The Hill
Vivek Ramaswamy DESTROYS Neocons Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, Chris Christie on UKRAINE War
https://youtu.be/66KZ5rt82V4?feature=shared
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Vivek Ramaswamy on Stay Free with Russell Brand: Israel & Ukraine
https://youtu.be/21jRHCbQT0A?feature=shared
0:40 to 2:45
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Washington Free Beacon
Vivek Ramaswamy Defends Comments About Israel and 9/11
https://youtu.be/AO9htCh6lQY?feature=shared
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Did Christie go too far by going on MSNBC, did Pence go too far by forgetting Trump was once a “rookie”, and why didn’t Fox News here include the parts where Ramaswamy brought up Christie hugging Obama or he talking about Raytheon on the debate stage concerning Haley?
Fox News
Did Vivek Ramaswamy go too far in the first debate?
https://youtu.be/1bmdsi6Y5UM?feature=shared
It’s disingenuous and cynical argument she is making that will hurt us in the general. We are never going to abandon Israel and there will be no nation wide abortion ban and she knows it.
She’s insane.
We can’t afford to give foreign aid to anyone. Our country is broke. We’re 32 trillion dollars in debt. Stop the madness.
Notice how she went the route of shouting him down and finger wagging, as if that helps her to convincingly win arguments? I would not want to be married to that.
Israel furnishes invaluable intelligence and high tech to US military, and military ‘aid’ to Israel is mostly to subsidize American defense contractors at the expense of Israeli self-sufficiency. Not to mention American ‘aid’, public and private, is financing an attempted military coup against Israel’s democratically elected government.
US ‘Democracy’ 2023: 2 dots who shouldn’t even be here, let alone running for president, arguing over how much US taxpayer money should go to Israel.
Beam me up, Scotty.
We shouldn’t be giving money to any country as we have no money
But if the Biden Administration is in bed with the Iranians and a coup is being fomented against them, just what intelligence are they providing, on what I wonder, and why given the circumstances of the above on points 1 and 2?
.... Not to mention American ‘aid’, public and private, is financing an attempted military coup against Israel’s democratically elected government.
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Yes, American aid comes with strings. One string — trying to force Israel to continue to be ruled by its leftist judiciary.
Israel was the first to congratulate Biden’s 2020 steel — not that I harbor any religious or political objections to her.
Ramaswamy is a pharma bro with a Sam Bankman-Fried vibe to him. He never voted in an election until 2020 and now wants to run the country.
He shouldn't be anywhere near the White House, most certainly not as 78-year old Trump's running mate.
We can do better. It's amazing (and depressing) that this complete fraud has fooled so many.
It may or may not be a good idea. It’s over my head.
But I often wonder, what other nations tax their citizens and send that money to us? I know of none
No links of him to SBF.
We’ve seen what the political insiders, who can tell you how they felt about everyone they’ve ever voted for, have done to the US.
And you’ve not proven how or on what he is a fraud.
You sound like Haley, Pence, and Christie.
If Israel is such a good ally, why don’t they pay us?
How many IDF divisions did they send to Kuwait and Iraq?
Ramaswamy’s debating method was a cinch.....to act like an overcaffeinated version of Sen. Ted Cruz.
Press and social media observations were not what
one would consider flattering: Annoying. Irritating. Glib.
It was the consensus that the guy behaved like a jackass.
It wasn’t just liberals dissing the smug know-it-all.
The other Republicans on the debate stage seemed genuinely miffed at his presence there.
Is he running for office or looking to land a talk show?
Actually, I think they were willing to join the coalition but some of the Arab members (Saudi Arabia, etc) did not want them. (Did not want to be seen as “Ally’s of Israel.
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