Every election season in America creates great social upheaval that goes beyond its borders and drastically impacts the global economy. If I were running a country, I wouldn't want to have any kind of reliance on a country that risks having such sweeping changes in behavior from administration to administration. Stability and predictability are always better when it comes to the sensitive nature of the global economy. Now you can say it was only the past few presidencies. But that's all it really takes to change relationships between nations. Best example I can think of is how Trump fucked the relationship with Canada and indirectly got a hostile liberal elected when a workable conservative was pretty much guaranteed to win just months prior.
Usually because the Chinese have already stolen it via their US enablers. They don't need Israel as a middleman.
Wait, are you seriously suggesting that the problem is that the US Military Industrial Complex isn't large enough???? The opposite is true, Clinton didn't go far enough dismantling that festering tumor.
You flipped pretty quick on Trump getting into yet another war in the Middle East.
Perhaps, but I don't see why we still need to act like Israel is our best friend when they clearly are not.
Thats just panican in my balls talking.
Just to clarify, I'm not saying the GWOT caused our military downscaling. Only that the needs for a GWOT are much reduced from the needs of a sustained military conflict with another state.
I think there's a decent chance Iran may turn down good faith negotiations with the US...at first, at least.
While it’s undeniably true that Israel has been militarily successful and is "winning" wars fought on its territory, the blunt assertion that ‘the right to victory and the spoils’ is the oldest and most fundamental right reduces a deeply complex, tragic conflict to a crude hobbesian cliche. War is not justice; it is the failure of justice. To claim legitimacy solely through conquest overlooks the moral and historical grievances that persist and fester, and that no amount of ‘victory’ can erase. Yes, Israel ‘won’ wars, but winning the land does not mean winning the peace, nor does it constitute a blank check to dismiss the legitimate aspirations and sufferings of others as ‘bitching.’
True, but the same happens when our government actively meddles in Israeli elections to try to create an anti-Netanyahu government, provides cover for Soros and his NGOs to try to subvert the Israeli government, or agree to shitty deals that give Iran a massive slush fund to arm its proxies against Israel.
“It’s ok that Israel sold secret tech to China because they would have gotten it anyway”
That is because the only thing at the core of Trump supporters is the residue from him giving them backshots.
"Jews are weak! Might makes right!"
I believe his point is that the decision made resulted in many mergers that have created the near monopolies in the defence industry that we have now. This has created many issues in procurement in addition to issues in production and sustainment that leave the US in a weaker position producing less weapons for more cost than it was capable of even two decades ago.
Wasn't this the plot of Top Gun: Maverick?
I think that's got more to do with the Iranian propaganda being some combination of cringe (lovingly stroking a model mini-nuke), ungrounded in reality ('we have total control in the skies over Israel' they say, when they launch fewer missiles every day while Israel bombs Iran proper with impunity) and/or too blatantly fake (the AI-gen'd 'shot down F35 the size of a WH40K Battle Barge, surrounded by a crowd' image). Only reason to post that sort of thing would be to laugh at their absurdity, and Iranian sympathizers wouldn't want to laugh at them, so only Jews/Israeli sympathizers have been doing that the last couple of days.
