This debate explores the complex power dynamics between the United States and Israel, examining how US influence over Israeli decision-making is perceived by different stakeholders, and how geopolitical events like the Iran protests and Venezuela oil nationalization have shaped US military strategy and foreign policy priorities in the Middle East.
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(HEATED DEBATE) Julian SPARS Over Israel's Control Over USA | S. RitondaleAdded:
I'm sorry. That's a one-way street where a nation of 9 million people is basically telling our [ __ ] president like a little [ __ ] because I think people don't like the US has a lot of influence over Israel. I mean, I know people are going to talk Apac and Israel and the US. People talk to Israeli nationalists like in Israel.
Their main criticism is the influence that the US has on Israeli decision-making.
>> I mean, that's just the ultimate projection I've ever heard in my life.
That's ridiculous. the >> I mean 8 months, dude. It this went from in June 2025, the gun, we bombed all the nuclear capabilities, total victory, it's over to 8 months later, we're putting our boots on the ground, and it's our boots going there while they go and ethnically cleanse the [ __ ] out of Lebanon.
>> That's I'm sorry. That's a one-way street where a nation of 9 million people is basically telling our [ __ ] president like a little [ __ ] what to do. I don't understand how how like if they're going to say the nationalists in Israel, oh, the US has too much influence here. In my opinion, that's just because the psycho nationalists over there actually expect to have 100% influence and they're upset when they only get 99.
>> So, what I think people for the 2026, what was very like let's let's look at 2026 and this is what it's just like why why 2026? Why February 28, 2026?
What was the reason? Because let's not forget what started in 2026 was the capture of Nucross Maduro in Venezuela.
>> Uh-huh. Who's got a lot of oil?
>> And by the way, >> still under communist control right now.
People forget about that. Well, I would say just taking a step back from Desi Rodriguez perspective, I would say you can talk to a lot of people like it is insane how yes in name socialism and they and but in reality I mean they're doing what the US tells them to do. I mean it is like they tell they told Desri stop sending oil to Cuba.
>> Got it. Stop. We're done. No issues.
>> Uh we're going to send our uh Department of Energy, you know, Secretary of Energy there. We're going to send our executives. We're going to do all this.
Yep. The Southcom commander, I think it's General Donovan, went to Karakas a less than a month after the capturing the bombing of Karakas and the capturing the Southcom commander, the commander responsible for that operation a couple weeks later landed in Karakas to meet with them.
>> Yeah.
>> I mean, right. So, so now the it was funny because going kind of tying the cartel to Iran, the the thought process was and you know, even me talking to people like, dude, Mexican cartels are next. the cartels are next. But I think what people really don't push too much emphasis on is the protests that happened in Iran. The the the the protest in Iran for some reason, one way or another fundamentally changed the trajectory of US military might in the Western Hemisphere to focus onto the Middle East. And part of here's the thing though, >> one of the reasons I hate having to argue about the Iran war >> is because the idea of even having to slightly steal man radicals who run that country, which is what they are, let's not let's not get it twisted, >> is so intellectually annoying to me, yet I get forced to do it because I believe it was in January, Scott Bent, >> who you know is our Treasury Secretary was running around Davos on camera >> bragging about the sanctions he was putting on Iran and bragging about the fact that he was going to take their currency effectively to zero, >> which it is.
>> Yep.
>> Which he then said would force people into the streets and cause protests and because they know that the regime is crazy, they would kill those people. He I don't even think in his defense he mentioned the fact that we were going to try to arm the Kurds, which you know went totally ass backwards with that and ferment a lot of this. He definitely didn't mention the fact about MSAD's involvement in that operation. That's fine. That's not his world or whatever.
But I look at that and I go, if I see a psycho down the street >> on on the side of the street having a [ __ ] crack crackhead freak out or something >> and I go and load a [ __ ] weapon for him and I hand it to him and I say, "Have fun."
>> Yep.
>> I get charged in court.
>> Yeah. But that's where the difference between us as individuals and governments. They don't we don't play with they don't play the same rules as we do.
>> They don't play with the same rules as we do. But when I look at it that way, I I cannot like I'm not going to criticize other government governments whether it's Iran or Israel and not also criticize my own.
>> Yeah. And what I would say is what's if you look at the the the because you're right because the the the currency the real is worthless. I mean it is just and it's continuously to go under freefall.
But I I would say that the Iranian regime and the Islamic Republic it also in their mindset because it can be there's I think there's can be multiple truths at once because right now we're doing this by the way at Cuba right the blockade against Cuba the stopping of the oil is to cause the electric you know the electricity to go out and then force people on the street and then you and then we indicted Rao Castro the former president right and it's it's the same because it's kind of following in some ways the Venezuela model they're doing it in the Cuba model and then Iran like this is something that that this administration is really doing and then Iran.
I think there's a there's a there's there's a the history of the protest in Iran is very well documented and the and the US government's argument is we're we don't have to we're not forced to do business with anybody if you we can force same with Iran because they pick and choose. What was interesting after though going to my point what I was saying when the protest ended there was I think we can all remember there was like reports that Trump might have done like a symbolic he was going to do a strike against Iran. Yes.
because of the protest because he said that true social no protest killed etc etc >> but what did we see then afterwards was a massive deployment of US combat power to the Middle East at that point that's what going back it's like you can ar you know you can talk to your sources in the cabinet you can talk about this it doesn't matter what what are they planning >> and that's what I would focus on a military exercise going back to the original thing it's like >> do I build a military exercise where I'm deploying forces I have all the forces or I have none the forces that's that's the parameters are set So when we when I saw that I'm like they're is war going to happen? I don't know but I can tell you for a fact the option is there and if they're going to do it it's going to be big and it's not going to be what we saw the fore that just the nuclear bombing of the facilans.
>> No it was going to be if you wanted to do regime change this is how you're going to do it and then the US responded.
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