The Tucker Carlson Show
What If Everything You Were Told About America’s “Closest Ally” Is Wrong?
11 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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In fact, so long that few people question whether that's a good idea or why exactly that is. Everyone knows our closest ally is Israel, and we have all kinds of military and economic ties to Israel. But the main way you know Israel is our closest ally
ally is that really up until just the other day, there was not a scenario you could conjure in your head in which the United States would take the side of any other country over Israel. It just couldn't happen. So Israel's our chief ally. Hasn't always been this way. Of course, Israel didn't exist until right after the Second World War.
So it's all pretty new and it's accelerated with every decade. We've become closer and closer to Israel. Our commitment, not our legal commitment or publicly discussed commitment, but our in effect commitment, our on the ground commitment to Israel has become stronger every year. But there's no reason that should stay the way it is forever. What if we decided to change it up?
What if we decided to get a new closest ally in the world? How about Qatar? What if Qatar was our closest ally? Float that one at the next dinner party you go to. People will respond strongly, especially if they're Fox News viewers.
What? Are you an Islamist? Qatar? The bloodthirsty Islamo-fascist state? What, are you getting paid by the Qatar lobby? AQUAC?
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Chapter 2: How has the U.S. relationship with Israel evolved over time?
Russia! Why? Because it's the biggest country in the world. It's the biggest landmass in the world. And it has enormous... mineral deposits, energy deposits, it's got a lot of oil and gas and gold and everything else you need to run a society. And it also has a formidable military, by far the biggest on that continent, on the European continent, and huge manufacturing capacity.
So like if you needed an ally to help you in a conflict, or if you needed a country in which to stage a fight with some other country, a place to put air bases, for example, Russia would be like the best, of course. But we can't be allied with Russia because Russia's bad. They're immoral. They're bad. You might also say, well, Venezuela. Why Venezuela?
Well, because they have the largest proven oil reserves in the world. They're in our hemisphere. I don't know. Lots of natural resources. It's right there. Why not make them a big ally? Talk about a place for military bases and trade, and that might help us. They've got a lot that we might benefit from if we wanted to help our country. You can't. They're bad.
They're so bad we're going to invade them. They're so immoral we have to go to war with them. We cannot be allies with them. We have to fight them. That's how immoral they are. Hmm. Okay. Well, at a certain point you get to places like, I don't know, Equatorial Guinea. You know, probably not a beacon of democracy. Small country, tons of energy, though.
And then the more obvious ones like Saudi Arabia or UAE or Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, the rest of the Gulf states, like those might all be good. We don't have their same form of government. Those are all monarchies, six monarchies clustered next to each other. But all of them have a ton of energy and they're all pretty pro-American and they're in an important part of the world.
So it's not a matter of being a Qatari nationalist or trying to promote Qatar. As you think about who should be an ally of your nation, you think about your nation. What's good for us? How do we serve our people, our citizens, the people who voted for us, who pay for all of this? What's in their interest? And Qatar just seems like an obvious one, but it doesn't have to be the only one.
And the only reason we're choosing it tonight is because there's so much falseness about Qatar. If you watch Fox News, you know Qatar is evil, and they're secretly running the United States. They probably don't tell you that their owner was just in Qatar trying to raise money, which is not an attack on their owner.
It's merely an acknowledgment of what everyone who doesn't watch Fox News all day knows, which is Qatar is part of the world. And lots of people go there. We were there two days ago. So was Hillary Clinton. So was Bill Gates looking kind of cadaverous. And it's not because we love Hillary Clinton or Bill Gates were there. It's because, like, everyone's there.
And if you want to interview people, you should probably go to Qatar because everyone's there. Why is everyone there? Because it's a pretty open society because they have a lot of stuff going on and they've got a lot of resources and they welcome people to talk about things in their country. That's not bad. Those are not bad things. Why are we being told Qatar is so bad?
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Chapter 3: What if Qatar was considered America's closest ally?
Check our facts against Wikipedia or whatever, Grokopedia. Go there, by the way. You should go to Qatar. Wander around for a day or two. You can fly in the world's greatest airline, by the way, as you get there, which is Starlink the entire way. There's a lot of good stuff about Qatar. Good food, nice people. But just go there. Don't take our word for it.
If you're being told that, you know, Qatar is this hellscape with slave markets and, you know, women in burqas or whatever, spend a weekend. See for yourself. You're not encouraged to do that. You're never encouraged to see anything for yourself. Don't do your own research. Trust the science. Trust our view. Trust the two-minute clip we put on Twitter.
And if you don't agree with that, then you're obviously Islamist, Nazi, racist, whatever. We're going to attack your character. But for once, like, see for yourself. So here are some of the differences between Qatar and Israel. Again, this is not an attack on Israel, for sure. And it's not promoting Qatar. It's just trying our best to promote our country, which could use allies right about now.
So the first is resources. And Israel has basically no resources at all. I mean, its gasoline comes from Azerbaijan. I mean, it needs to import basically everything that it uses. Not everything. We've got a thriving tech sector. But for natural resources, they are very, very limited. And that would include water. Qatar has, well, some of the largest natural gas companies.
reserves in the world, in their famous North Gas Field. And they are the, I think, number one LNG exporter to Europe, and one of the biggest certainly to Asia. Liquefied natural gas, it's what a lot of the world runs on. It's also where a lot of consumer products come from, because it's converted to plastics. polyethylene and many other things.
So like having a lot of natural gas is not just something that makes you rich. It's something that is really good for your country, your economy, and it can help your friends. So that's the first thing to know. Qatar has a ton of natural resources. Israel has no natural resources. Okay. The second thing to know is that Qatar is a very enthusiastic investor in the United States.
So that's being spun as a bad thing. They're trying to take over our society. Now, if you've been in the U.S. recently and wandered around and noticed it becoming markedly more Qatari-ish, Send us an email and tell us where you went, because we haven't noticed that, actually.
Qatar is, in fact, quite a socially conservative society, in contrast to, say, Tel Aviv, which has got to be the world capital for drag queen story hours. Qatar is the opposite of that. Yes, women are not covered and can drive and go out without an escort and all that stuff you hear about taking place in the Gulf.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of changing U.S. alliances?
It doesn't actually take place in the Gulf anymore, but it definitely doesn't take place in Qatar, which by regional standards is very liberal. But by American, Western standards is actually pretty traditional. So they don't have a lot of pride parades in Qatar. Let's see, none. None.
Qatari diplomats ask them, ask anybody when they're posted to the West, U.S., Canada, Great Britain, they send their kids to Christian schools because, not because they're Christian, they're Muslims, but because they're more socially conservative. They don't have government-subsidized abortion on demand in Qatar, as Israel does.
They basically have, in a lot of ways, the same social values, broadly speaking, of course. They're not Christian. They're Muslim. But broadly speaking, very similar social values to a lot of Trump voters. There's a big emphasis on marriage and spending time with your family. I'm not trying to talk it up too much. It's different. It's not my culture.
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Chapter 5: How do natural resources influence ally selection?
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Chapter 6: What are the moral considerations in U.S. foreign policy?
I'm sorry to agree with you on that. So who did this to you exactly? And how do you get it fixed?
Well, I know that the United Nations is working hard behind the scenes to have the sanctions removed. There have been tons and tons of of pledges to the United States from my special rapporteurs, independent experts of the United Nations, many states. But here's the system. The system is very weak at the moment because the United States is using its power, its leverage to
bend the arm of the system. And by doing that, it will make everyone, including American citizens, less and less protected.
It doesn't seem to be acting on behalf of its own people. I don't know what this has to do with what's happening in the United States. It seems like we are completely casting aside the rule of law, fairness, decency on behalf of another country. Maybe I'm missing something.
Look, you know, for a long time I've been thinking that Israel had the capacity to exert so much influence on the United States and I couldn't figure out how. I don't think it's that, in the sense there is something deeper and it's the fact that we are fooled by this idea of states representing us. No, eventually states are in the hands
of powers, military power, economic financial power, and the power of the algorithm. And this is why today imagining states as responding, serving the interests of people, it's a fallacy. This is why I don't feel like blaming all the Italian citizens for what their government or our government does.
And in the same way, I don't blame all the American people, also because there are so many American peoples who cannot meet ends. And I've seen this with my own eyes. When I was in Washington DC, I used to volunteer in shelters in underprivileged neighborhoods and I see the contradictions of the country.
So I would expect the states to take care of this rather than investing taxpayers money on seeding worse and seeding hatred all around. But so I think that It's the United States who needs Israel for its right now, its imperialistic purposes. And again, it's not the United States as a country. It's the United States as serving specific interests, which is very sad.
So it sounds like the whole the way we're thinking about this, I think you're making a very deep point. our framework is wrong. We think it's a contest between nation states and, you know, some unduly influence others, but basically they're separate and distinct from each other. We have these separate countries.
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