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Is Lindsey Graham playing both Trump and Netanyahu off each other?

And really, this is Lindsey Graham's, you know, ultimate dream prize here.

I think all those things can be true because I think, as we discussed before, is that those goals are not in contradiction with one another.

And sometimes the narratives that we see deployed or the narratives that we see leaked to the press are strategic to appease certain factions or to massage things away.

I think that's particularly true with Trump, for whom, on one hand, he doesn't really know that much.

as a corollary, sometimes he doesn't need to because once he's throwing so many things at the wall, as long as some of the justifications accomplish what he wants to accomplish, which is, you know, expanding America's influence in the Middle East, whether it be by the U.S.

's own accord and control or by virtue of Israel, either way, that's a happy outcome for him, especially when half his family is either invested in war-making or in the Israeli government's expansion itself.

And so I find that

What we know to be clear is that whether it's Israel pulling the U.S.

in or the U.S.

pulling Israel in or both of them working in tandem, the outcomes are the same, which is that the U.S.

is funding and has funded Israel's increasing escalating violence in the Middle East that has made the Middle East as unsafe as it has been for so long, no less for the victims of Israel's unaccountable violence.

The U.S.

has unconditionally funded that.

And the US stands to benefit from that regardless, even when it seems like Israel pushes the Biden administration or the Trump administration beyond what it purports to be its tolerated levels of violence.

So, for instance, this just two days ago, we saw the familiar reporting we've seen from the past two and a half years of Donald Trump is frustrated with Israel's, you know,

intense bombing in Iran.

It's like, well, if the U.S.

is so frustrated, as Julian has said, this is the most powerful country perhaps in the history of the planet, they could do something about their frustration.

That has been the case with the past two and a half years with regards to Israel's genocide of Palestine.