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“There’s thinking in and around the administration that the politics are a lot better if the Israelis go first and alone and the Iranians retaliate against us, and give us more reason to take action,” one of the sources told Politico under the condition of anonymity.

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Except we are clearly setting up our emotional support Israel to take all of the blame when this goes south, which it will....and Israel will deserve blame for it, they are foaming at the mouth for regional war but the US will spin around and say "we've been deceived by the jews again!" to get out of admitting to itself how fucked up the US is all by itself.

Cue history repeating itself in the same violent, xenophobic, stupid ways...

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Clearly Israel is the only one who wants this war, the US is just following orders.

This is why US shouldn’t allow its politicians to be up for sale, but alas, hard to fix stupid.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 21 hours ago

There is no clearly delineating the idea of US and Israel in this foreign policy context, it is a continuous enmeshed concept, Israel is a vassal state of the US, I don't say that condescendingly, that is what it is.