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    8 months ago

    Aircraft carriers actually have a lot of storage space since they have to be able to cruise around for a long time without resupplying. They have many “smaller” boats surrounding them which can easily transport food if they used their life boats.

    If there’'s a will there’s a way. People are actively dying of starvation.

    Waiting multiple weeks to build a pier for “clean delivery” is what I would use the adjective in your comment for.

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      8 months ago

      How many tons of food can a lifeboat carry do you think? How does that food get loaded onto and unloaded off the boat? By hand?

      If there’'s a will there’s a way. People are actively dying of starvation.

      And the US has been airdropping food in. But there just isn’t enough capacity, and Biden has been criticised for not doing enough in that case too. The real solution if for Israel to allow trucks across the land border and not machine gun residents when they try to collect the aide.

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        8 months ago

        The real solution if for Israel to allow trucks across the land border and not machine gun residents when they try to collect the aide.

        Yes but Biden is actively trying to pretend that isn’t possible and make up excuses why he needs TWO MONTHS to build a pier to drop off food. In the hopes his voting base is stupid enough to believe he isn’t actively trying to ignore the issue.

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          8 months ago

          How is he pretending that isn’t possible?

          How is he ignoring the issue? He’s building infrastructure in order to facilitate aid delivery, because his previous action of airdropping aid into gaza doesn’t have the capacity to provide enough food to alleviate the famine, and he only has to find this solution because Israel has ignored his calls to not start a ground offensive in rafah and also ignored his calls for a ceasefire.

          So I really don’t get how you can try and spin “he’s ignoring the issue” from all that.