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Trumps director of Director of the National Counterterrorism Center resigns over Iran war, blames Israel and AIPAC as responsible for it. (lemmy.ml)

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[–] DumbBrokeLeftist@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

"Israel is running US foreign policy"

It's not.

"[The US's war of Aggression on Iran,] there is very little to gain for the US from it"

The US has sooo much to gain from the destruction of Iran, both regionally and globally.

"The US is wasting their entire global interceptor supply to save Israel from retaliation."

The settler-colonial project that is Israel is incredibly important to the US, the hegemon of capitalism-imperialism. See the video of Joe Biden saying if Israel didn't exist then the US would have to invent an Israel. Also, the vast majority of Iranian missiles are not being fired upon Israel but instead the US bases scattered around the SWANA region, outside of Israel. So, most of the interceptors are being used intercept Iranian missiles being fired on US bases.

I go much further into these points, beyond the one sentence responses I gave here, in my long reply to leeeroooyjeeenkiiins comment below. The reason why I'm not fully explaining here, in my response to you, is because I don't want to rewrite or edit my reply to LeroyJenkins because ultimately, it would be the same contents. AND that's too much work.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

See the video of Joe Biden saying if Israel didn’t exist then the US would have to invent an Israel.

You mean the top AIPAC recipient whose entire life mission was being an agent for Israel and finally earned himself the nickname "Genocide Joe"? The guy who utterly destroyed the rules based order the West was so happy to hit the third world with?

At some point you're going to have to face the fact that Israel is a completely useless asset. The US has to airlift all bombs and supplies to Israel because it doesn't do anything by itself except throw the region into chaos and destroy the US relations with its actual colonial subjects: the Gulf states.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 8 hours ago

At some point you're going to have to face the fact that Israel is a completely useless asset. The US has to airlift all bombs and supplies to Israel because it doesn't do anything by itself except throw the region into chaos and destroy the US relations with its actual colonial subjects: the Gulf states.

Their posts were keen and well reasoned. Israel matters not one whit, if the super-rich and well-positioned can find another lacky entity with designs on the whole Levant, for their own reasons.