r/InternationalNews • u/urban_zmb • Oct 09 '24

International Biden Officials Say Ceasefire Talks Are Suspended as Harris Names Iran Top Enemy

https://truthout.org/articles/biden-officials-say-ceasefire-talks-are-suspended-as-harris-names-iran-top-enemy/
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u/Impressive_Scheme_53 Oct 09 '24

Iran being the US’s greatest adversary is a stone cold dumb answer. They aren’t a threat to us. We aren’t Israel. A better answer would be China who is scooping up allies globally and a massive economic adversary. Personally I believe we should collaborate not turn them into an enemy. I’ve seen credible reporting for example that China has a cure for diabetes which our scientists can’t collaborate on. But that all aside that would have been a logical answer. She said Iran then ranted about Israel. That wasn’t the question. It was about the US. Alarming really for someone wanting to be President. They chose not to air that answer on the main segment shown it’s on some extra segment more hidden.

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u/HihoMerryO22 Oct 09 '24

I agree, I'm still so confused by why we are losing dominance by endlessly focusing on the middle east. While we were killing poor people in Iraq, afghanistan, Yemen, Pakistan and supporting killing in Palestine and Lebanon  - China is using it's economy to invest in itself and grow with actual long-term strategic plans. Instead we spend all our money on trying to maintain military dominance, spend 20% of our GDP mostly on pharma and insurance companies, and change national strategy every 4 years, undoing the effort of the prior administration and end up going nowhere. And now Harris is saying the next target and biggest threat is Iran, what a joke. Why do we keep repeating bad choices again and again.

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u/CormacMacAleese Oct 09 '24

A cure for diabetes, you say? Can I vote for Xi Jinping in November?

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u/Impressive_Scheme_53 Oct 09 '24

I saw a segment on BreakThrough news about this that went into vast detail on the US not allowing scientific collaboration for this and Chinas work on cancer as well. But here is a quick article (I’d need to dig for the BT news link on YouTube but you can probably find that as well)

https://m.economictimes.com/industry/healthcare/biotech/healthcare/chinese-scientists-develop-cure-for-diabetes-insulin-patient-becomes-medicine-free-in-just-3-months/articleshow/110466659.cms

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u/CormacMacAleese Oct 09 '24

Sounds like it's targeted at Type I diabetes, but still. Hot damn.

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u/Nothereforstuff123 Oct 09 '24

A better answer would be China who is scooping up allies globally and a massive economic adversary.

Has China ever bombed the US?

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u/moonkingyellow Oct 09 '24

No, but NATO bombed the Chinese embassy during the bombing of Belgrade, so I guess technically the US has bombed China.

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u/Impressive_Scheme_53 Oct 09 '24

Has Iran ever bombed the US?

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u/nikiyaki Oct 10 '24

China is only an "adversary" in the sense it will counter America's power and influence. So it is no threat to American lives, only American power and money. Which is, to America's leaders, what American lives need to protect.