from HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to world@lemmy.world on 06 Apr 15:03
https://sh.itjust.works/post/58071980
When Benjamin Netanyahu arrived at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club on 29 December last year, the Israeli prime minister came with an appeal – and a not so subtle inducement.
After months of restocking air defence and other missiles after June’s 12-day conflict in which the US joined in to bomb Tehran’s nuclear facilities, Israel was ready to go again, this time with more substantial objectives.
In the press conference hosted by the two leaders, Trump appeared to dutifully echo familiar talking points of Netanyahu’s. “Now I hear that Iran is trying to build up again,” Trump said. “Then we are going to have to knock them down. We’ll knock the hell out of them. But hopefully, that’s not happening.”
The Israeli leader, like others before him, had come armed with an appeal to Trump’s ego: the award of his country’s top honour, the Israel Prize, rarely given to non-Israelis, for his “tremendous contributions to Israel and the Jewish people”.
According to the Atlantic, Netanyahu had suggested a final benefit to the famously transactional president: defeating Iran would allow Israel to wean itself off its massive reliance on US military aid.
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Yes, they fired all the competent and knowledgeable people. Replaced them with frat boys, yes men, and ass kissers.
He is oblivious to most of the reality the other 8 billion of us live in, so, yes.
“Was Trump oblivious to…”
Stop. No need to elaborate. The answer is yes.
Yeah, I can totally see how he would have given up free money. Moderation and living within his means, two things that Netanyahu is famous for!
Betteridge’s Law of Headlines - If a headline asks a question, the answer is always no - needs a corollary: “unless that question is ‘Is Trump an idiot?’”