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Apollo

Apollo

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https://www.politico.com/news/2026/...d-spending-israel-maga-trump-primary-00925375
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee and other pro-Israel interest groups have uncorked over $9 million in a bid to unseat Republican Rep. Thomas Massie on Tuesday in a competitive primary that has shattered spending records. Prominent pro-Israel GOP donors have funneled millions more into a super PAC stood up by President Donald Trump’s political operation that has spent nearly $7 million on the race. Overall ad spending has topped $32 million, making it the most expensive House primary on record, per tracking firm AdImpact.
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Pushing out for the epstein files and being against the Iran war -two sensible positions- really lead to the biggest primary the house has ever seen. Delusional that some people think that the files amount to nothing when many names are still redacted and possibly many files are still not released.
 
Apollo

Apollo

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...ls-missile-defense-pentagon-assessments-show/
The U.S. military has depleted much of its inventory of advanced missile-defense interceptors after expending far more high-end munitions defending Israel amid hostilities with Iran than Israeli forces used themselves, according to Defense Department assessments described to The Washington Post.

The United States launched more than 200 Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, interceptors in defense of Israel — roughly half of the Pentagon’s total inventory — along with more than 100 Standard Missile-3 and Standard Missile-6 interceptors fired from naval vessels in the eastern Mediterranean. By contrast, Israel fired fewer than 100 of its Arrow interceptors and around 90 David’s Sling interceptors, some of which were used against less sophisticated projectiles fired by Iran-backed groups in Yemen and Lebanon.

If the United States and Israel resume hostilities against Iran in the coming days, as President Donald Trump has threatened to do, the U.S. military is likely to expend an even greater share of interceptors because of a recent decision by the Israeli military to take some of its missile defense batteries offline for maintenance, said an administration official. “The imbalance will likely be exacerbated if fighting restarts,” the official said.
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No wonder Israelis were itching for the war, they weren't even paying for their defense. This comes after reports that Iran maintains 70% of its pre-war missile inventory. The depletion of interceptors is worse than I expected.

@Midnight Delight Why are Israelis such free-riders on America's back?
 
Monkey D Theories

Monkey D Theories

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Apollo said:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...ls-missile-defense-pentagon-assessments-show/




No wonder Israelis were itching for the war, they weren't even paying for their defense. This comes after reports that Iran maintains 70% of its pre-war missile inventory. The depletion of interceptors is worse than I expected.

@Midnight Delight Why are Israelis such free-riders on America's back?
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In theory the way the relationship is supposed to work is that because Israel is dependent on the US for aid, the US can use them to further American interests.

The issue is that for the past decade this country has been run by literally braindead old people who have no idea what the fuck they are doing.
 
Apollo

Apollo

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Midnight Delight said:
Saying that while Aounistan lives off of American Diaspora money is pretty funny ngl
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Middy, You're not even doing the whataboutism right. Comparing the working class sending money to their grandma in Lebanon to Israel draining billions of dollars of US taxpayer's military inventory.

Israel treats the Pentagon like a free all you can eat buffet and still complain about the service.
 
Apollo

Apollo

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The time window for striking Iran is growing tighter. We're currently heading into a 3 day market closure due to Memorial Day, which is unironically a decent predictor for Trump escalating his rhetoric/actions.

But the Arab peninsula goes through an important change rn: Pilgrimage season, which ends with Eid al-Adha. Millions of muslims from all around the world travelled to Saudi Arabia for it. There were reports of SA requesting Trump not strike during this window as that would lead to a crisis with the pilgrims stuck due to airspace closures in conflict. We're only a few days away from pilgrimage starting and thats on Monday the 25th to Eid on the 27th. The days that follow the eid usually see some number of pilgrims stay.

But there is another event coming up in June after this, the world cup in the USA. Its tradition to respect global sporting events like olympics or the world cup and politicians do not usually start conflict during such times. That starts on June 11 and lasts into July.

Which means that the time window for resumption of conflict is quite tight, and whatever fighting starts Trump has to make sure it ends quickly to avoid a diplomatic crisis. Either he strikes this weekend or the ten days in June before the world cup starts. Unless Trump breaks tradition and attacks on these occasions, which is not that unlikely.
 
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