I genuinely do not understand how Israel has so much control over europe and the us
Israel is one of the US’s forward bases, “an unsinkable aircraft carrier in the ME”, from which it can project military power and influence. The US supplies the money and weaponry, and Israel provides the settler troops, as well as a testing ground for police-state / crowd-control tactics and military effectiveness of weaponry for the rest of the western world. Its a mutual co-dependence, but the US plays the more powerful role.
If US aid failed to materialize every year, Israel would soon cease to exist, and the west would lose that base of power.
I think you mean the US is Israels bitch
No, Israel doesn’t have enough money to buy the USA.
However, they are very important to the USA’s strategic goals, which include control of the Middle East. So, they have a lot of leverage.
USA is JP Morgan’s, Vanguard’s, and BlackRock’s bitch. Israel is small potatoes.
Funny all the politicians seem to be owned by them
I like the idea that Epstein was essentially a Mossad agent.
Lots of evidence supporting it
Bcs without Isntreal they don’t have a base to do operations in West Asia. They’d have no way to set up color revolution for regime change against any leader who doesn’t play ball if they lost Tel Aviv.
The US has bases all over the Middle East EXCEPT in Israel. Those are Israeli bases under American control.
Bases which have recently been severely crippled because Israel had the epic based idea to get Trump to bomb Iran.
The tail doesn’t wag the dog.
Israel is a US client state, not the other way around.
Most people here are of the opinion that Israel is a US client state but I am not convinced of that opinion.
The strongest evidence is that a client state would never receive nukes from their host which they could use autonomously like Israel did from the US.
Yes, Israel does provide some benefit to the USA, but their downsides tremendously outweigh the benefits. To see what an actual US colony looks like, see Qatar, Saudi etc. which are hosting US military bases while paying for them. And all their oil revenue is basically directly put into the US banking system.
I’d be careful, that treads awfully close to some “Jews secretly control the world” Nazi conspiracy nonsense.
Would all those other West Asian/North African client states be client states if they didn’t need US bases to protect them from Israeli aggression? Would they not simply retaliate and wipe Tel Aviv off the map if it weren’t for the US and our protection? Israel is the keystone that holds that arch together, and if they stop being useful in that way, the US could simply withdraw that protection and there would be no Israel by the weekend, nukes or no nukes.
Would all those other West Asian/North African client states be client states if they didn’t need US bases to protect them from Israeli aggression?
Protect them from what Israeli aggression? Do you think Israel bombed Libya Syria Afghanistan etc? Who’s attacking Iran right now?
Whenever actual suppression was needed it was always NATO doing the dirty work. Israel is doing jack.
And don’t do Zionist antisemitism dogwhistling. Israel having significant influence over countries doesn’t mean they fully control them. It’s like how Miami cubans lobby for anti-Cuba policies. Israel is openly bragging about their Hasbara budget and how they are influencing countries worldwide with their lobbies.
The Reddit threads on it are full of imperialist, pro status-quo replies. Big yuck. “But they’re, legally speaking, terrorists who have damaged our bases[read: actually do something against British capacities to support the colonial genocide in Palestine]!!!” Every so often I forget these horrible people must exist for the system to function, else we’d be having better lives and communities already.
The Reddit replies:
yeah this is what i imagine whenever i read the reddit replies of posts related to israel , enemies of israel , or something Islamophobic . unfortunately im starting to see the same pattern in lemmy , specially in .world
Maxwell is still modding world news I bet
