SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: "A new talking point has arrived from the Israel lobby, which is their claim that becoming a proxy for Israel's endless war-mongering is an "investment" with a positive return.

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"A new talking point has arrived from the Israel lobby, which is their claim that becoming a proxy for Israel's endless war-mongering is an "investment" with a positive return. Further, they even claim that dumping billions of taxpayer dollars at the behest of AIPAC is somehow an "America-First" policy position. It's not just lying. It's gaslighting on a grand scale. The United States isn't supporting a faithful ally as the Israel-First lobby alleges. It's doing what no other nation in history has done. It's funding the rise of a competing power that until very recently was murdering our servicemen, selling our secrets and weapons technology to our enemies, spying on our government, and plotting false flag attacks that would have killed our citizens. Calling that "America First" is an insult to both facts and common sense. No other nation in the history of great power competition has done what America has done to itself. Nations form alliances with existing powers. That is ordinary statecraft. America took a nation built from nothing, made it a genuine regional hegemon with nuclear weapons, world-class cyber capabilities, an advanced defense export industry, and unfettered access to American intelligence raw feeds, wrote no binding contract requiring it to prioritize American interests over its own, and called it a bargain. Our argument isn't that Israel is going to betray America. Betrayal implies they were at some point loyal. Israel will simply continue to do what Israel has been doing since the 1970s, which is to extract maximum value from the American relationship while maintaining sufficient independent relationships with Russia, China, and others to ensure that Israeli security does not depend entirely on Washington’s continued goodwill. This is strategic diversification. Any competent government practices it. The moment Israel achieves sufficient regional dominance to operate without American cover, the relationship becomes not just unnecessary but actively inconvenient. At that point, the rational move is exactly what Israel has been quietly preparing for, a pivot toward whatever combination of great powers maximizes Israeli freedom of action with no strings attached. Russia offers Syrian deconfliction. China offers economic partnership and no lectures on Palestinian rights. BRICS offers an alternative to the dollar-denominated financial architecture that American sanctions leverage depends on. It's about keeping the options warm until Washington’s patronage becomes a constraint rather than an asset. The problem is that America has spent $310 billion, seven decades of diplomatic capital, and an unknown amount of classified technology on a partner that is openly and rationally hedging against American primacy, and the political machinery that prevents a clear-eyed reassessment of that arrangement runs on theology. On the conviction, marketed through a million Sunday sermons and a hundred thousand Scofield footnotes, that supporting Israel is what God requires, and that questioning it is what faithlessness looks like. Dispensationalism is not just bad theology. It is a national security liability. It has produced a political class that cannot ask basic questions about a recipient of American investment and a media environment that treats those questions as evidence of antisemitism rather than evidence of analytical rigor." Read more at Insight to Incite. Link in bio. Audio version available.

12:48 PM · Mar 25, 2026