When Biden (a few years younger than me) was growing up, many people still remembered World War I (and World War II was something of a continuation and a rematch). The situation today globally is very similar to that of the early summer of 1914, and Biden wants to keep a lid on the situation including the war in the Middle East, Ukraine and the potential conflicts in East Asia. He needs Israel to win enough so they don’t decide they have had all they can take and start throwing around weapons of mass destruction, and while Israel could wipe out the Palestinians and cripple the Muslim world, the backlash would probably set off the “powderkeg” that is set to explode globally (and unlike 1914, many countries have weapons of mass destruction or can get them quickly).
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