Nigeria has gotten billions of dollars in U.S. security assistance, even as its counterterrorism campaign has a massive civilian death toll.

Nigeria has gotten billions of dollars in U.S. security assistance, even as its counterterrorism campaign has a massive civilian death toll.

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  • TigrisMorte@kbin.social
    1415·
    6 months ago

    Oh, cool, yet another Country that is not in any way in the control of Joe Biden, whose actions you idiots can blame him for.

    • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
      235·
      6 months ago

      He is in control of the guns he sends them. If he doesn’t want to be linked to civilian killings, all he needs to do is to stop sending guns.

      • TigrisMorte@kbin.social
        33·
        6 months ago

        Nope, not in any real way. What he is control of is the compromise which results in the guns getting sent and attempting to limit the damage from those compromises. Which happens to be precisely what he has done.

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      103·
      6 months ago

      Honest questions seeing as you seem so sure:

      • Does the executive have no ability to block arms sales to human rights abusers?
      • What methods are available to block arms sales?
      • Is a government not under any moral or ethical obligation to prevent the armament of human rights abusers?
      • CptEnder@lemmy.world
        44·
        6 months ago

        Congress has to vote on bills for arms packages to our allies. The President has to sign it or not.

        The catch is they always package stuff like this with stuff like “give water to Rwanda” so the President is forced to sign it otherwise he’s the “no water for Rwanda President”.

        The best example of this lately is arming Israel. It’s packaged with probably the last ever military aid to Ukraine. They need it to literally not turn 30% of the continent of Europe into Russia. But means we gotta send shit to the assholes in Israel too. But it’s easier for people to just focus on the last part.

      • TigrisMorte@kbin.social
        24·
        6 months ago

        None of your bullet points have anything to do with the thread.
        Your goal post moving is normal and expected, so expect it to be ignored.

        • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          6 months ago

          “Politics and arms sales has nothing to do with a thread about politics and arms sales”

          Ah, so you’re just a dunning kruger. Cool, thanks!

    • Zeroxxx@lemmy.idEnglish
      42·
      6 months ago

      I agree. Let’s blame Biden and Democrat and left woke people altogether!

    • Woozythebear@lemmy.world
      610·
      6 months ago

      Is Biden sending them billions of dollars and making sure any attempt at peace through the UN fails?

      Found the genocide supporter