6/1/26: Congress Tries To Intertwine US & Israeli Militaries, Graham Platner Scandal, Cenk Banned From UK
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In reality, it may represent something much larger. Indeed, it is unprecedented. Break it down for us, Brandon. This is getting quite a lot of attention.
Yeah, so the social media claim is that while the U.S. and Israel militaries are merging, it's not quite accurate. And actually, it might actually be better for restraining Israel if our officers had more control in some ways over Israel. the IDF, but ultimately the real issue here, and in many ways it's bigger than if we were just merging command structures. This is a infusing of the U.S. and Israeli defense and technology innovation bases. And once those things are together and I kind of track it in my in my article, once those things become one, you can't disentangle those two things, which I think is the point, because, you know, Crystal and I mean, you know this from your the Democrats have been really at the forefront of sort of.
becoming skeptical of Israel. And then of course the Republicans are now the young people on the right are kind of following that, that suit. But ultimately the Israelis know that in the long run, they cannot rely on foreign aid as it is currently structured coming to them because the next generation is rising in both parties and both sides are skeptical of Israel.
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