Is the US in trouble in the Middle East? | The Bottom Line

While the United States government fully backs Israeli actions in its war on Gaza, other countries have taken a different approach.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Israel’s actions have “gone beyond the scope of self-defence”. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pushed back against the Israeli and US classification of Hamas as a terrorist group, saying, “Hamas is not a terrorist group, it is a group of liberators who protect their land.”

Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow Charles Kupchan tells host Steve Clemons that the US will have to get used to a world where Washington can’t always call the shots.


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[kwokfung]

I have issues with people who keep saying Hamas uses civilians as human shield when the people in Gaza have nowhere to go!

[Hubert]

Thieves/occupiers have a right to defend themselves from indigenous owners of the land. Crazy devils.

[DanielEarth]

I believe “Israel’s right to defend itself “ is an alibi to finally carry out its “from the river to the sea” land grab as revealed in Netanyahu’s recent speech at the UN.

[kierenbuckley]

not just the middle east the majority of the world will hold America accountable and Britain/England

[Daagg]

This is sad and BS, hypocritical. Saying Russia aggressor, when they clearly stated that they were fighting neo-nazies and trojan horses in Ukraine, while justifying Israel's terror on Gaza "complicated and justifiable". Truly incredible. This isn't an academic but a mouthpiece.

[theburgerexperience]

America has the ignominy of being the only superpower in history that is controlled by its own puppet colonial state. 😂

[alphonsemoonflee]

He's quite one sided on the side of Isr ael as he hasn't mentioned how they have broken international law over decades, committed war crimes. "One can understand Isra els anger' as if they needed it in the past.

[Motorboatsnooki]

Did he seriously say the war on Palestinians is more morally complicated than the Ukraine war?

[fidaahmadkhanfar]

He said in Palestine is more complicated 😳 it’s an excuse for those who are turning blind about the genocide happening in Palestine

[bestronggh]

This guest is so wrong in my opinion. Calling China irresponsible while saying the us has handled the issue well.

[ashxec]

A Devil is ruling the world who does not deserve the throne. We need a compassionate and a humane super power.

[ElmoQudus]

Western countries who have military bases in Middle East should leave

[RustGL]

The JEWS cannot understand one thing – “You cannot build your happiness on unhappiness of others”!!

[saidmohammed]

American has voted more the once against the free aud passage to Gaza. Yet with full confidence said totally opposite to what America said regarding free passage aid to Gaza.
The B52 dropped bombs on Gaza with no mercy of the civilians mother and babie that are total disseminated and eradicated mass killings.

[blessedtobeablessing.alway]

America and Israel should be held accountable for what they’re doing to the Palestinian people. I don’t know why people think that others will sit there and be silent and just keep taking the oppression at some point they will retaliate and is a unfair fight because the Palestinians do not have the military might in these corrupt Americans backing them.

[resurrectedone]

"We have definitely lost the battle in the global south, " senior G7 diplomat: "All the work we have done with the global south [over Ukraine] has been lost...Forget about rules, forget about world order. They won't listen to us again." Many developing countries have traditionally supporting the Palestinian cause, seeing it through the prism of self-determination and a push against the global dominance of the US, Israel's most important backer.

[orwellhuxley]

This guest needs to consult Webster’s dictionary regarding the definition of “hypocrisy.” Yes, all humans are equal but some humans are more equal than others.

[blessmotherafrica]

The double standards of this world and the hypocrisy that exist is so appalling!!!

[whereisjustice]

Why Arab World don't stop export oil and Gas to EU and US?

[thecelt]

all empires fall, America will be no different, and if you study the signs of previous falls of history and the conditions which repeat (because we never learn) you can estimate quite accurately where the current empire is . the time now and to come are dangerous like a cornered animal with nothing to lose as it thrashes around in its last ditch attempt to hold onto power and influence