• Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      And why not? He has virtually unlimited U.S. weapons as well as bi-partisan support from U.S. politicians. It’s as though we’re just setting our attack dog loose on everyone.

      It’s fucking astonishing that we have any relationship with Israel at all these days. The U.S. gets absolutely nothing out of this one-sided relationship.

      Israel offers us:

      -No unique strategic military position (we have that area covered already).

      -No high-value industrial benefits (no natural resources or unique trade).

      -No military arsenal or manpower support (their arsenal comes from us and their personnel is quite limited).

      It’s time to let them make friends with their neighbors on their own. They don’t need us to do that and we sure as fuck don’t need them.

      • Spiralvortexisalie@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        Hacking and Blackmail are Israeli strengths. The two most common theories I hear are that that elected officials are impressed with the Israeli hacking capabilities and rather keep them on our side, or they are actively exploiting those capabilities to bend politicians to their will. Seeing how Israel operates in public with innocent civilians it seems rather obvious our predicament.