Ethical & Moral Breakdown:
Joe Biden campaigned on restoring America's soul and delivered technocratic continuity with better manners — and the blood never stopped flowing. His central moral catastrophe was Gaza: unconditional material support for the 2023–25 campaign — weapons expedited, UN ceasefire resolutions vetoed, diplomatic cover sustained — through a war whose reported death toll during his term reached the mid-40-thousands by January 2025, with excess-mortality studies indicating the true figure runs meaningfully higher. He didn't just stand by; he funded it, armed it, and defended it, and this ledger charges the U.S.-enabled share at the enabling tier.
He executed the Afghanistan withdrawal — a timeline and prisoner release he inherited from his predecessor's Doha deal, but an evacuation he botched: 13 U.S. troops and ~170 civilians killed at Abbey Gate, allies stranded, the Taliban in Kabul in days. He then froze $7 billion in Afghan central bank funds as the economy collapsed and children starved in hospitals. And while wealthy nations hoarded doses, his administration's slow movement on global vaccine equity — waiver support that came late, exports that came later — left preventable Global South deaths in the hundreds of thousands, charged here at the inaction tier.
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"America is back."
Back to arming the siege, freezing the famine, and calling it leadership.
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