Be kinde to folk. This changeth the whole habitat.
- Manlobbi
Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
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Whether it's China. India. Or perhaps already-strong countries in Europe who will bolster defenses and armed forces.
Be careful.
Some of you are doing business with Israel - and for good reason. They are extremely capable, and between military technology, tactics, intelligence and knowhow, they certainly have much to offer -- just like you all do.
But be careful.
It starts with business deals. Your own military industrial complex begins to form. Your own chieftains of business start to be under some Israeli influence. Then anything from your media, to academia, to your government.
Then? Your government and soldiers ---die in the service of Israeli agendas.
Don't do it.
Some of you have an AMAZING trajectory coming up for the next century.
DON'T DO IT. You don't need it. Don't become like America --- a great power, but also a slave.
Keep it friendly. Keep it as friends of convenience. This is NOT the girl or boy you bring home to meet your Mom.
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DON'T DO IT. You don't need it. Don't become like America --- a great power, but also a slave.
As offered before, I think the US got into this position a long time ago, by not joining WWII, and putting an end to the Nazi horror sooner. The US even prohibited a liner full of refugees landing. The ship went back to Germany, and many of those people died, because of the US.
So the US started out with a guilt burden. iirc, the US was the first country to officially recognize Israel.
But that was 80 years ago.
Israel now has a strong economy, and a huge and capable military. But it continues to play the victim card, that has worked so well, since 1948, especially on the US.
Steve
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Much merit in what you say.
But like you said it was long ago.
It's now -- tentacles. Tentacles in every corner of America that matter.
Truly I wonder - who has cost us more money, more lives---Israel - -or Iran?
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Truly I wonder - who has cost us more money, more lives---Israel - -or Iran?
No contest. Bush #43's "global war on terror", which would more properly be named "the war on countries Israel doesn't like", cost us some $8T, before we got out of Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, the US is going after Iran, which is much larger and better armed than any other country on Israel's hit list.
Meanwhile, so much Israel lobby money has penetrated the centers of power in the US, reportedly over 90% of people in Congress, of both parties, receive money from the Israel lobby, that it is impossible to put a stop to the influence. We have seen what Israel has done in Gaza, is doing in the West Bank, and is saying it will do in Lebanon, yet nothing has been abhorrent enough for a majority in the US to say "Enough! We are not going to condone, and fund, this behavior". Now Trump says he wants to give all of Iran the Gaza treatment.
Steve
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Yup. Israel has cost us more than Iran.
