The Trouble with US Support for Israel & Ukraine

Power Problems

Mark Hannah, senior fellow at the Institute for Global Affairs, the nonprofit housed at the Eurasia Group, and host of the None of the Above podcast, argues that President Biden has not used the leverage US support provides over Israel in its war in Gaza and Ukraine in its war with Russia, prolonging the conflicts instead of imposing real conditions and pressing for negotiated resolutions. He discusses the recently passed aid bill, Israel’s planned attack on Rafah and Biden’s threat to withhold aid, and the politics within each party over Israel and Ukraine, as well as the American addiction to war and tendency to construe international conflicts in simplified Manichean terms, among other issues.

Show Notes

• Mark Hannah, “Biden needs to get real with Ukraine and Israel,” CNN, April 26, 2024
• Mark Hannah, “Straight Talk on the Country’s War Addiction,” New York Times, February 18, 2023
• Mark Hannah, “Why Is the Wartime Press Corps So Hawkish,” Foreign Policy, March 30, 2022

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