Does the US really want to play this game? 90% of Israel’s water comes from desalination plants, and now we’ve given Iran the justification to strike back in a similar manner.

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      Israel is a piece. If this war ends up threatening the one true ruler of the US, Capital, it won’t matter what Israel wants.

      I think this is the part that a lot of people will eventually be shocked by. Because they are following the wrong “leader”.

      Israeli interest and Israeli leaders are absolutely interwoven in American foreign policy. But, if the interest of capital see it within their best interest to drop Israel, they will.

      Now, I think this will be mostly symbolic, I don’t think US military support would ever drop. Or even much in terms of capital investments in Israel. But, I can definitely see them using Israel, specifically Benjamin Netanyahu, as a scapegoat for the failures that have already occurred because of the war with Iran.

      And, this would bring support in from a lot of Trump’s base that he has lost to the Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, and Candace Owen narratives. If Trump played it well enough to capture their antisemitism, while at the same time, not entirely alienating his Christian Zionist base by using Netanyahu as “the problem” instead of directly blaming it on Israel.

      It’s just my though. My brain is rotted at this point though. I hate all of these people but am way too aware of how they shift and manipulate their narrative when things don’t go as planned. It’s a path forward I could see him taking.