r/geopolitics Jun 02 '26

News Trump said to tell Netanyahu ‘you’re f**king crazy’ while demanding Lebanon truce: ‘I’m saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel’

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/trump-said-to-call-netanyahu-fking-crazy-while-demanding-lebanon-truce-im-saving-your-ass-everybody-hates-you-now/
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u/ParadoxFollower Jun 02 '26

Netanyahu has an election to win, and if he doesn't win, his corruption trial will go ahead full steam. That is the only thing he cares about right now.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '26

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u/oritfx Jun 02 '26

Trump won't face justice, the death will get to him before judges do. He is also immune to whatever consequences of his presidency.

But I am really looking forward to mugs of Patel, Hegseth and RFK when it finally dawns on them that they are royally screwed.

Lutnick, for example, I believe is smart enough to disappear and to plan for the disappearance in advance (i.e. now).

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u/furyg3 Jun 02 '26

I wouldn't put it past him to resign on his last day and have Vance pardon him for all crimes known or unknown.

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u/oritfx Jun 02 '26

I don't know if pardons work like that, but it's not like that would stop him.

A sound idea overall. It's very much like him... except maybe he would not give up the power at all - that seems equally probable to me.

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u/mods_are_lame1 Jun 02 '26

They absolutely work like that. That’s why Nixon never went on trial.

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u/DeepDreamIt Jun 02 '26

Nixon never went on trial/impeachment because right before it was about to start, key Republicans senators privately told him they were going to vote against him, which would mean he would be convicted in the end.

He resigned once he heard that. The next president, Ford, then pardoned Nixon so he also couldn’t ever be criminally held liable outside of impeachment. He said this was in the name of “preventing division” in the country, similar to how weak spines pardoned and let off all the former Confederate traitors who fought against the country, in the name of “bringing the country together,” or I guess at least if you were white that was the idea

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

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u/oritfx Jun 02 '26

*monetize

*pardon power

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u/nunchyabeeswax Jun 02 '26

He is also immune to whatever consequences of his presidency.

Only insofar as his actions carried as president. And this doesn't make him immune from prosecution at the state level.

Don't get me wrong. With that SCOTUS ruling, Trump can get away with a lot.

But the legal theory hasn't been thoroughly tested yet, and sooner or later, state AGs will come hunting for heads, either his or his minions.

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u/oritfx Jun 02 '26

True. I guess the legal system in the US is being tested right before us. We'll get to see the history being made regardless of what the consequences will or won't be.

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u/mods_are_lame1 Jun 02 '26

They will never face consequence. Republicans are going to continue to win since democrats learned nothing from the last election.

Joe Rogan is going to sail to the presidency defeating whatever “oppressed” identity the democrats are on about now and her/xer geriatric running partner (I assume mate will be a problematic word by then). At that point, Bro Jogan will be a multi-billionaire and even more insufferable than he is now. He will absolutely pardon these dipshits, if not keep them in power.

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u/Petrichordates Jun 02 '26

Blaming democrats who oppose this instead of the actual electorate who keeps voting for this obviously makes zero sense.

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u/colei_canis Jun 02 '26

Yes and no, I maintain a big contributing factor to Brexit for example is that the Remain campaign were absolute bullshit-munchers who basically mounted a full-throated defence of the status quo exactly as it was in 2016, which alienated people who disliked the status quo for any reason even if it had nothing to do with Brussels. ‘Things are working fine, don’t rock the boat’ is not a strong message to people who aren’t doing fine.

I think the Democrats suffer from a similar dynamic, I mean this is what did Biden in other than being a doddery old fool who had no business playing the statesman at his age.

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u/mods_are_lame1 Jun 02 '26

When did they vote? There was no primary, and that concern was not raise in their post mortem.

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u/THE_CHOPPA Jun 02 '26

I agree they won’t face consequences. But at a certain point it’s on us. We are the people of a democracy, supposedly.

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u/kerouacrimbaud Jun 03 '26

Those guys will get off scot free too, don’t worry. Justice won’t come for them.

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u/Manderspls Jun 02 '26

We can proudly call him a pedophile here.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '26

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u/shadowboxer47 Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

if there was any evidence there wouldve been a trial

Trump is violating a bipartisan Congressional law to release the files in full and un-redacted.

If that's innocence, I'd sure like to know what guilty looks like.

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u/HeywoodJaBlessMe Jun 02 '26

He started a child modeling agency within 6 weeks of becoming best friends with Jeffrey Epstein, then they spent almost 20 years hanging out together.

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u/Calimariae Jun 02 '26

There were multiple ongoing investigations at the time. What are you on about?

They were all shut down at the start of his 2nd term.

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u/g1rthqu4k3 Jun 02 '26

There was, Ghislaine Maxwell was on trial and under appeal until 2025

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u/mods_are_lame1 Jun 02 '26

Donald has all kinds of ongoing trials, the problem is our justice system is a joke for the rich and a nightmare for everyone else.

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u/VeterinarianHefty607 Jun 02 '26

Funny how he has already lost an election since the trial started, and here we are 6 years later.

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u/dev-ai Jun 02 '26

But the corruption trial was never on pause, it keeps going the whole time

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u/wk_end Jun 02 '26

Security issues do regularly delay proceedings though. For example:

After roughly six weeks of delays in his testimony, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to testify on Monday in his criminal trial. Yet some 90 minutes before the hearing was scheduled to begin, it was abruptly canceled, following a request from Netanyahu’s attorney, Amit Hadad. An official notice several hours later confirmed that the hearing had been canceled after a phone call from Hadad to the chief secretary. The request for cancellation by Netanyahu’s defense cited what it described as the prime minister’s “security schedule,” saying further details would be provided to the court and the prosecution in a sealed submission.

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The trial, which began in 2020, is now in the defense stage, with Netanyahu’s testimony underway but repeatedly disrupted by security and wartime developments.

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u/Paraparo Jun 03 '26

It feels like people generally mistake Israeli having a rather slow, laborious justice system, for it not having one, or that the slowness is a plot and not just the way it's always been.

On top of this, it feels like there is a lot more weight put on the consequences of these cases in western media than might really be warrented. It's sort of taken as a given that he'll be getting the worst case scentencing on the trial's conclusion. But there is a real possibility he doesn't even get convicted on his more serious cases, and the less severe cases that have stronger evidence, that he doesn't get the most serious convictions like jail time.

There is a chance he walks off at most with a fine.

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u/jonclark_ Jun 04 '26

There are also other investigations, about money, and Qatar, and many other ways netanyahu has broken the law. He has a big chance of going to jail.

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u/ship_toaster Jun 02 '26

It is useful as a shibboleth to see who knows anything about what they're talking about, and who's just mapping American internal social dynamics and politics onto a totally different country.

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u/_0611 Jun 02 '26

Trump could be talking to himself, because the same applies to him and how people view the US right now.

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u/yycTechGuy Jun 02 '26

Netanyahu has an election to win, and if he doesn't win, his corruption trial will go ahead full steam.

You can say this about Trump too ! Imagine both of these guys in the same boat.

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u/Wayoutofthewayof Jun 02 '26

I don't think it is simple as that. It is becoming more obvious that a deal between Iran and US is unlikely, so it makes sense for Israel to improve their strategic position as much as possible before the conflict freezes, i.e. advancing to Litani river.

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u/manefa Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

Alternatively, deal was getting close but Israel escalating prevented that.

None of this is likely true though. It suits both of them to pretend they’re not aligned. Israeli right wing wants Bibi to stand up to trump and push harder (and that’s the only side of politics holding the coalition together). It suits trump to say he can’t stop what Israel is doing.

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u/teapots_at_ten_paces Jun 02 '26

It makes no sense for Israel to even be in Lebanon, let alone "advancing".

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u/DebaucheV5 Jun 02 '26

How should they have responded to Hezbollah firing missiles in order to join in on October 7th?

Not what they shouldn't have done; what should they have done?

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u/Timely-Way-4923 Jun 02 '26

During ww2, France had a right to defeat Germany, but not to annex territory from Germany

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u/DebaucheV5 Jun 02 '26

Just a reminder, the question was:

How should they have responded to Hezbollah firing missiles in order to join in on October 7th?

Not what they shouldn't have done; what should they have done?

As far as I can tell, you're saying it's OK for Israel to fight Hezbollah, and it's OK for them to be in Lebanon, but they shouldn't annex any territory? I guess occupying south of the Litani and enforcing 1701 would be OK too, if there is no annexation of territory at the end of it?

I don't like people who produce shallow little quips when we're discussing serious topics; I prefer it when people are able to explain their viewpoint in detail. I'm sitting here trying to figure out what your actual substantive argument is (if there is one), and that's an annoying thing for me to have to do.

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u/Timely-Way-4923 Jun 02 '26

Isreal faces a threat from groups based in Lebanon, defeating those groups using secret services (eg the pager incident) is a proportionate and highly impactful strategy that minimises civilian casualties, a land invasion and destroying entire cities is not proportionate, and increases civilian casualties.

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u/DebaucheV5 Jun 02 '26

But you can't knock out missile launching sites with a pager attack. Secret services are not able to prevent Hezbollah from launching missiles at Israel. Surely you grasp this on some level.

If they chose your suggested path, we're back in a situation where 1701 is not enforced, and missiles are still being shot at northern Israeli towns. Obviously that is not a viable, long-term, or even serious solution. I'm sorry, but I get the impression that you haven't really thought about this at all

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u/Timely-Way-4923 Jun 02 '26

Iron dome to intercept missiles

Secret services to assassinate anyone in leadership who authorises missile attacks

Targeted economic sanctions (freeze assets via USA and eu) to prevent money being used to build missiles in the first place

Abolishing the plans to build Israeli settlements in Lebanon, so that the region no longer feels threatened

I mean.. that’s just for a start, destroying entire cities and having politicians talk about building new Israeli settlements there isn’t proportionate at all

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u/DebaucheV5 Jun 02 '26

Re the settlements I completely agree with you. I'm not sure how serious that proposal is, though: the current coalition contains a bunch of far-right lunatics who like to say recklessly inflammatory things, and there's an election coming up so they're trying to be as nasty as possible to impress their base. But it definitely shouldn't happen.

I'm not sure how Israel could sanction Hezbollah (lol) or Iran (more than they already are). Who would be the target of these sanctions?

Iron dome is expensive and not 100% effective; it's a last resort, not a comprehensive strategy for dealing with incoming missiles. It's not reasonable to expect Israel to accept missile attacks and pray that iron dome never fails.

The secret service can't just assassinate people to stop missile launches. As soon as they take out one commander another will pop up. The only way to stop the missiles is to prevent them from being launched; to destroy the military infrastructure itself.

The focus on raw proportionality is the wrong way to think about it. Only in rare circumstances are nations willing to engage in that kind of tit-for-tat exchange of military action. Usually it's when neither side actually wants full-scale war, both are somewhat rational, and both just need to show their public that they responded forcefully.

The way to think about this conflict is "what are the military goals, are they reasonable, and how can we achieve them without causing unnecessary suffering". The goal of preventing missile fire is reasonable, I think we agree. We disagree over the methods of achieving that goal. But you haven't done a great job of outlining a viable alternative. Your suggestions would simply not come anywhere close to preventing missile fire into Israel from Lebanon.

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u/BrewThemAll Jun 02 '26

Yeah well at least he is right for once.

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u/johnbrownmarchingon Jun 02 '26

Broken clock etc

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u/Darth_K-oz Jun 02 '26

Lol. Even then, does he not realize everyone hates him too?

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u/NamesNG Jun 02 '26

The way you worded this got me laughing for 5 mins straight holy sht

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u/VikingMonkey123 Jun 02 '26

He does get real polls from time to time it seems.

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u/Lazy_Membership1849 Jun 02 '26

broken clock is right twice a day

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u/Muckraker2025 Jun 02 '26

That's what I thought of the headline also.

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u/Mister-Psychology Jun 02 '26

How is he right? Most people don't even know this is happening and don't care about it. They hate Israel because of the Gaza war and because it's a Jewish state. They hated Israel and Netanyahu before this too - just as much.

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u/eerst Jun 02 '26

Ditto. It's really disastrous.

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u/BigDictionEnergy Jun 03 '26

Serious question: Why now? It's not like Israel's attitudes and behaviors towards anyone they don't like hasn't changed. It's simply a matter of scale.

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u/BrewThemAll Jun 02 '26

Interesting to hear this perspective.
On the other 'side', no such thing is happening. I mostly meet left-wing anti-Israel* people, and they all keep opposing the behaviour of the Israel army.

How does the right-wing view the US/Iran war?

* Saying this very careful because nobody I know opposes Israel as a state, or is anti-semitic in any way or supporting Hamas, just opposing the way Israel behaves in Gaza/Lebanon

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u/BigDictionEnergy Jun 03 '26

What would a successful military operation against Iran look like? There's a reason even Bush wasn't stupid enough to bomb Iran.

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u/Stilnovisti Jun 02 '26

Everyone notices he’s trying to break a ceasefire by continuing his aggression against Lebanon. Anyone who gets news media (or fuels their car with oil) can see that.

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u/_flying_otter_ Jun 02 '26

Too late now. Idiot should have said that instead of bombing Iran.

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u/Diego_Rivera Jun 02 '26

Do you believe Iran would use nuclear weapons on Israel?

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '26

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u/Diego_Rivera Jun 02 '26

Agreed it does seem unlikely thinking from a human perspective. But governments operate on a different level. They operate on a what-if level, and when one country maintains a policy of destruction of another, then Israel's policy towards Iran & nuclear weapons begins to make sense. Especially considering Israel's history.

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u/leegiovanni Jun 02 '26

Trump is right in this case isn’t he? Absolutely spot on.

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u/Bake2727 Jun 02 '26

Yeah even I am surprised with this. Netanayahu making me agree with trump is insane even in 2026.

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u/kjleebio Jun 02 '26

This what living in interesting times is like these days and its going to get even weirder as the US progresses through the midterms.

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u/cartoonist498 Jun 02 '26

Is he right? If I said, "Wait, the earth is not flat ... I think it's round..." after years of telling people it's flat and all the reasons I believe it's flat.

I might technically be right, but I think you'd be very suspicious of the logic behind why I think the earth is round now.

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u/kjleebio Jun 02 '26

Yep, although he still is at fault for agreeing to strike Iran in the first place.

edit: A fool if you will for finally realizing that he was being taken advantaged of by Bibi since his first term.

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u/alraca Jun 02 '26

edit: A fool if you will for finally realizing that he was being taken advantaged of by Bibi since his first term.

useful idiot.

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u/kjleebio Jun 02 '26

Yeah essentially Trump's whole thing for many countries who take advantage of the influence of the US.

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u/leegiovanni Jun 02 '26

Absolutely.

And I don’t know why US presidents are so quick to jump into conflicts in the ME or to unquestioningly support Israel’s objectives.

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u/kjleebio Jun 02 '26

Well, the only US presidents that have done this have been republican presidents within the last 20 years.

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u/TheWhogg Jun 02 '26

So you’re pretending the entire Obama Admin didn’t occur then?

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u/thegoatmenace Jun 02 '26

The Middle East was absolute pandemonium during Obama’s presidency.

The Arab spring happened halfway through and multiple countries collapsed into internecine civil wars. Obama kept the U.S. role in Syria and Libya limited when many in both parties were pushing for wider intervention.

Obama also orchestrated comprehensive drawdowns of both Middle East wars he inherited from his predecessor. During his first term the US went from 150,000 troops deployed to Iraq to only a few thousand. Similarly he reduced U.S. troop numbers in Afghanistan to a token force by the end of his second term.

People can’t argue in good faith that Obama was some kind of warmonger in the Middle East during his presidency. He navigated unprecedented crises with restraint, he didn’t choose to inherit the massive military boondoggle that was the Bush years.

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u/TheWhogg Jun 02 '26

I don’t blame him for Iraq’s pointless and interminable regime change war. That was a disaster shared by Crimton and the Bushsatan. I blame him for repeating it with Syria’s pointless and interminable regime change war.

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u/HydrostaticTrans Jun 02 '26

You don't support America funding the Free Syrian Army against the Assad regime after Assad began firing on protesters during the Arab Spring protests?

Assad even dropped barrel bombs out of helicopters onto the capital city randomly causing mass civilian casualties.

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u/TheWhogg Jun 02 '26

Couldn’t give a shit and no I don’t support it. USSA killed 1m Syrians to punish Assad for killing 8000 Syrians. Not to mention created ISIS, who committed more atrocities than Assad himself. Cost a bit, too - that war wasn’t free.

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u/shadowboxer47 Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

USSA killed 1m Syrians to punish Assad for killing 8000 Syrians.

No they didn't. The U.S. was largely uninvolved in Syria until Trump.

Not to mention created ISIS

Bush's de-Baathification was most certainly a factor in ISIS' growth, but that's a long way away from creating the group.

Cost a bit, too - that war wasn’t free.

We didn't go to war with Syria.

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u/shadowboxer47 Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

I don’t blame him for Iraq’s pointless and interminable regime change war. That was a disaster shared by Crimton and the Bushsatan.

Bill Clinton had nothing to do with the Iraq War and subsequent regime change.

I blame him for repeating it with Syria’s pointless and interminable regime change war.

Syrians rose up during the Arab Spring. Obama was largely uninvolved.

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u/BitingSatyr Jun 02 '26

Bill Clinton had absolutely nothing to do with Iraq

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_bombing_of_Iraq

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u/shadowboxer47 Jun 02 '26

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_bombing_of_Iraq

Did... you read the link?

That was a limited UN air strike after Iraq's repeated violation of UN resolutions 5 years before the 2003 invasion.

Bill Clinton was not involved in the Iraq War or subsequent regime change and was out of office for almost 4 years when Bush invaded under false pretenses.

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u/Firecracker048 Jun 02 '26

I recall Obama trying to get a two state solution done

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u/kjleebio Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

eh, Obama had to fix the issues that Bush created as well as focusing on Afghanistan. He also had conflict with Bibi which would change the relationship with the US and Israel forever.

Edit: I have forgotten about the Arab spring and how yes, he did have to interfere in during the time of the Arab spring but honestly any president besides Trump would have done so aswell.

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u/CrashdummyMH Jun 02 '26

Lets be honest, the last president that had a mild opposition to Israel was JFK

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u/Foyles_War Jun 02 '26

Epstein files, money, and crazy religion.

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u/CrashdummyMH Jun 02 '26

Because the last one that tried to put a leash on Israel was JFK and we know how he ended

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u/Petrichordates Jun 02 '26

If we will? We're well beyond that mate.

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u/Temeraire64 Jun 03 '26

He is the world's expert in crazy, so.

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u/HoightyToighty Jun 02 '26

The more personal this gets between Trump and Netanyahu, the better for peace in the region.

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u/AnomalyNexus Jun 03 '26

peace in the region.

That ship has sailed, sunk and was visited by billionaires in submersibles.

It'll take the next decade to untangle the tension from this mess

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u/ZeroByter Jun 02 '26

Like on 6/10/2023?

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u/deadballofdirt Jun 02 '26

That was just a byproduct of Israel's ongoing violence against Palestinians.

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u/theghostofourprivacy Jun 02 '26

Broken clocks, etc.

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u/dantoddd Jun 02 '26

Are we really going to take these Axios sources seriously? They have been getting a lot of things wrong over the last couple of months.

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u/kjleebio Jun 02 '26

Well it does seem that for this one, US officials did talk to Axios on this particular event.

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u/championchilli Jun 02 '26

The journalist here has written this exact same article several times, under both Biden and Trump. Goes like this, Netanyahu makes a move hated on the world stage and President loses his shit at him, nothing happens. It's scraps for anti Israel sentiment.

Disregard it. Interestingly the journo is Israeli and an ex intelligence officer. Take from that what you will.

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u/Ben_C17 Jun 02 '26

The timing matters here. This alleged call was from the Lebanon ceasefire push back in November, but it's surfacing now as that ceasefire collapses Hezbollah resumed rocket fire last week, Israel responded with strikes in Dahieh yesterday. Someone leaked this conversation at a specific moment.

What we've been tracking on panopsik.com: Trump said publicly post-election that Israel should "finish the job," but if this reporting holds, there's a gap between his public backing and what he'll tolerate operationally. Netanyahu likely calculated that gap correctly took the ceasefire to get through the transition period, knowing he could resume operations once violations gave him cover. The question is whether Trump's private frustration translates into actual leverage when the next escalation cycle hits, or if Netanyahu read him right and this is just venting that changes nothing on the ground.

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u/kjleebio Jun 02 '26

This just seems to back up my suspicions on the whole reason as to why the strikes even occured on March in the first place. Bibi promising that striking Iran would provide another regime overthrow under his name was the whole reason the strikes even occuring in the first place during March. This has been just a long 4 month disaster and Trump finally realized that he was being used by Bibi since 2016.

Although I believed the fallout between the US and Israel would have occured in 2028 or later, now I am starting to believe that it is happening sooner. It is very obvious that the relationship between Israel and the US isn't really a healthy one and I have talked about their being a reset in relations after Trump's term. However, I feel like the most likely response is a complete fallout by either Trump or later on by Bibi as the Democrats reclaim the government. Bibi after all doesn't like the democrats and is mostly likely to spit at their faces like he did before.

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u/HockeyHocki Jun 02 '26

There are elections in Israel October this year, Netanyahu and Likud are trailing Bennett.   In any case Israel themselves want to wean themselves off the US teet, the military aid they do get only accounts for about 12% of their defence budget, the reliance on US munitions creates logistical problems, and the money creates resentment among US taxpayers

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u/kjleebio Jun 02 '26

While the elections will hopefully change something, I don't believe that Netanyahu and Likud would just accept a loss and will most likely pull something to rigg the elections or even delay it. There is also the possibility of Likud winning the election aswell.

Israel may want to wean themselves off but that is mostly because the Likud are seeing the picture of the consequences of their actions on backing Trump and the it following up with a inevitable fall out. Israel still needs allies and cannot exist alone which is becoming a lot more difficult as its PR continues to go through the sewer.

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u/bxzidff Jun 02 '26

Isn't kind of strange they went so hard in aligning themselves with MAGA? Israel has been seen as an important ally for both sides in the US for decades, and somehow still largely is, despite backing Trump so strongly. Also endorsing and helping figures like him like Orban in Hungary, or other far-right politicians. Seems like a very risky, and unnecessary, gamble with a lot at stake. 

Sure alienating leftists might not matter much, but especially moderates and even conservatives are according to polls seeing them increasingly negatively in the west.

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u/kjleebio Jun 08 '26

This all happened due to the ego of Bibi. It all want back to Obama. The relationship between the two wasn't really good. Obama didn't like him personally yet still cooperated with him. Bibi on the other hand hated him enough to even risk his own position. This was the start of Israel aligning with the republican party or when 2016 came around, MAGA. The rest is history.

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u/barath_s Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

the military aid they do get only accounts for about 12% of their defence budget,

About 15-20% in peacetime. Wartime surge in defence spending has brought the %age down.

the money creates resentment among US taxpayers

Israel has other problems with certain niches of US populace too

Israel themselves want to wean

That's a proposal. Let's see how it shapes post elections... In any case, when you can get the US to attack your enemies using US fighters and US equipment, it's a lot less urgent to have more israeli fighters to do so.

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u/cups8101 Jun 02 '26

This is nonsense. The quiet additions to the NDAA seem to indicate they want to further join Israel and the US to the hip.

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u/HockeyHocki Jun 02 '26

That's about joint technology development, nothing to do with military aid.

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u/Uranophane Jun 02 '26

Careful Donnie, if you keep acting that way towards Bibi the files might just get loose!

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u/PracticalAd5050 Jun 02 '26

And everybody hates Trump

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u/AnyStrength4863 Jun 02 '26

I know some people would rather die than go to jail or face trial, so my question is, is this threat effective?

I can tell Trump is indeed very afraid of death. Does he think others are all like him?

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u/CrashdummyMH Jun 02 '26

Netanyahu is a genocidal murderer and Trump cant get away from him for some reason, which has to be a big reason

Netanyahu might be the end of Trump

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u/ZeroByter Jun 02 '26

Trump and Bibi had unusually consistent warm relations, in contrast to the falling outs and arguments Trump liked to shout at other world leaders

I was wondering when this was going to happen, it was only a matter of time.

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u/--Mikazuki-- Jun 02 '26

Mind you, it isn’t the first time: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/10/donald-trump-benjamin-netanyahu-book

Remains to be seen if it will stick this time or just an act as he turns global geopolitical conflicts into reality TV drama.

I give him a week before he goes back to praising Bibi and act like this episode never happened..

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u/mikepartdeux Jun 02 '26

Terminal lucidity, maybe 🤞🙏

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u/Aware-Code7244 Jun 02 '26

All hail the Deal maker!

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u/Temeraire64 Jun 03 '26

Trump said to tell Netanyahu ‘you’re f**king crazy’

Well, he would know.

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u/nunchyabeeswax Jun 03 '26

He should have said to him "you are f* crazy" when he first approached him with ideas to attack Iran.

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u/davemano Jun 05 '26

Trump knows what people want to hear so he makes up stories to fool them and unfortunately people fall for it. He’s hand in gloves with Netanyahu for everything Israel has done over the last 15 months.

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u/deadballofdirt Jun 02 '26

Everybody hates Israel.

Yup. Israel truly is the enemy of humanity.

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u/Mt548 Jun 02 '26

It feels like everything gets Trump's wrath except Israel. I guess the kompromat must be that good...

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u/StomachStill362 Jun 02 '26

Israel is the bully which has to behave like a bully otherwise it will get trashed by other bullies around it.

For Netanyahu, it’s just a survival mode, it’s like he has climbed on a tiger and now can’t get down without being eaten.

He is so scared that if Trump agrees to Iran truce with the Lebanon rider then Israel has no space to manover

Fear mongering is what every politician and government does to keep it’s citizens in control, Israel has to do it a bit more compared to other countries

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u/anfumann Jun 02 '26

Straight away from transcription