Comments by "Stephen Jenkins" (@stephenjenkins7971) on "Israel Faces U.S. Sanctions - The Second Arab-Israeli War Begins | The Suez Crisis | Part 1" video.

@nape1475 The US rubberstamps anything its allies do insofar that it doesn't spit in the face of US geopolitics, genius. Blaming the MIC, which was thoroughly dismantled the second the Cold War ended, is smoothbrain territory. US never started wars in Syria, was in constant conflict in Iran due to Cold War actions, and Israel is constantly being beat down over the head and twisted to follow US policy when it comes to the Palestinians. They would've expanded much further and faster if they had not. Fact is that Israel, for all of its issues, is a loyal US ally; thus privileged to US support. And very little will change that, unless you want the US to stab itself in the foot anyway. Also, the USS Liberty incident happened before the US was allied to Israel. It's end result was literally no different to how the US handled Japan in the USS Panay incident; getting recompense and an apology. You gonna claim the US bends over for Japan too? Eisenhower literally backed multiple coups across the planet. This was the Cold War, not the era of uber US idealism. That came post-Cold War.
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@roxylius7550 Leaving the Middle East alone is braindead when the USSR most assuredly was not. That's essentially ceding an entire region to your rivals for influence; and you're also lying. US got involved in the Iran coup (hardly democratic) because the British tricked the US Intelligence at the time that it was leaning to the USSR; it had nothing to do with oil. Rather, that was the British objective. The US objective throughout the Cold War was anti-Communism, pure and simple. Everything was subservient to it, including oil.
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@roxylius7550 Bruh, have you not opened a history textbook before? This is common knowledge that the Brits tricked the Americans in the coup. US' intelligence was infamously quite inaccurate for much of the Cold War, either being ran over by the KGB or the British SIS. Not my job to educate you, just check it out in a quick wiki scan. You'll see.
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The first and only time anyone ever did the right thing in the Middle East after Cyrus the Great lol
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@christianweibrecht6555 Well, yeah; they'd see him as an imperialist traitor that backed foreign regimes at the cost of US allies. Modern Republicans want literally nothing to do in foreign relations.
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@iddomargalit-friedman3897 It's easy to say that now, but most US allies are essentially gambles in hoping that US help now equates to an ally later. South Korea, Japan, and Germany being among the most important gambles which paid off. There are many more, less obvious ones, but the fact of the matter is that you're looking at the end result while dismissing the circumstances of the time. You can't guarantee allies, you can only curry them.
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@brag0001 Killing Iranian general is fair and dandy since they already try to kill our troops anyway. I see little reason to stop; it isn't like the US is going around and killing every politician from every nation ever. And you're conflating policies from half a century ago to today. The US isn't exactly fermenting coups everywhere anymore; that was Cold War policy.
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