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        attacked Iran in an act of war. The US government supported the
        strikes, providing intelligence and weapons. Trump cynically
        used nuclear negotiations as cover while he plotted with
        Netanyahu.</div>
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                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Israel
                      has launched a major attack on Iran, which could
                      escalate into a larger war.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
                      United States is not just sitting on the
                      sidelines, watching what is happening; the Donald
                      Trump administration is directly involved.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
                      US government oversaw the attack. Washington
                      provided Tel Aviv with crucial intelligence, to
                      help it kill top Iranian officials, with US
                      weapons.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Trump
                      provided Israel with cover, by overseeing fake
                      peace talks with Iran, which in reality were a
                      cynical ruse.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">As
                      US officials met with their Iranian counterparts
                      to discuss a new nuclear deal (after Trump
                      unilaterally tore up the previous one), Washington
                      and Tel Aviv were secretly planning the operation.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Trump
                      personally gave Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin
                      Netanyahu the green light to launch the strikes.</p>
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style="position: relative;--highlight-bg: oklch(from var(--color-bg-accent-themed) l c h / 0.2);font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;font-size: 1.375em;">Trump:
                      "I always knew the date" of Israel's attack on
                      Iran; "we knew everything"</h3>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Mere
                        hours after Israel struck Iran, Trump told the
                        New York Post that he had </span><a
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                        beforehand</a><span>.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cI
                      always knew the date\u201d, Trump said. \u201cBecause I know
                      everything\u201d.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cI
                      gave [Iran] 60 days and they didn\u2019t meet it. Today
                      is day 61\u201d, he added, referring to 13 June.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Trump
                        repeated these comments in an interview with
                        Reuters: \u201c</span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/c4172355-dbe3-4eae-933a-d8927adaf75a?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">We knew everything</a><span>\u201d,
                        he stated, revealing that the US government was
                        in constant communication with Israel.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>"I
                        think it's been excellent", Trump said of the
                        Israeli attack on Iran, in an </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/b3aa3714-b0c4-4d34-a1e8-75084e5e6ae8?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">"We
                      gave [Iran] a chance and they didn't take it. They
                      got hit hard, very hard. They got hit about as
                      hard as you're going to get hit", Trump boasted.
                      "And there's more to come. A lot more".</p>
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style="position: relative;--highlight-bg: oklch(from var(--color-bg-accent-themed) l c h / 0.2);font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;font-size: 1.375em;">Trump's
                      fake "peace talks" with Iran were cover for
                      surprise attack</h3>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>The
                        Wall Street Journal summarized the Trump
                        administration's cynical strategy: \u201c</span><a
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">U.S. Diplomacy Served as
                        Cover for Israeli Surprise Attack</a><span>\u201d.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Trump
                      falsely claimed that he wanted peace with Iran,
                      and US officials participated in five rounds of
                      negotiations with Tehran. The sixth was supposed
                      to be held in Oman on 15 June.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">These
                      talks aimed to broker a new Iran nuclear deal.
                      Back in 2018, during his first term as US
                      president, Trump unilaterally withdrew from the
                      Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which
                      had been signed into international law in 2015 and
                      endorsed by a UN Security Council Resolution.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">However,
                      the Wall Street Journal noted that Trump's
                      bad-faith negotiations over a new agreement "ended
                      up being the perfect cover for a surprise Israeli
                      attack".</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>This
                        is how the Israeli media described Trump's
                        duplicitous scheme: "The US participated in a </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/16798185-1119-46ff-b3e0-1807b07be75a?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">massive campaign to lull
                        Iran</a><span> into thinking an attack was not
                        going to happen immediately".</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">While
                      publicly participating in these negotiations, the
                      US government was privately helping Israel prepare
                      for war on Iran.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>A
                        US official told ABC News that, before the
                        attack, the Trump administration </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/f8b7e84b-83b3-4f82-802e-e399e28ebe4a?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">provided Israel with
                        "exquisite" intelligence</a><span> needed to
                        target Iranian officials.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>The
                      </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/d4c22134-5024-4728-8981-867aa14bd3d9?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">media outlet Axios</a><span>,
                        which is very close to the Israeli government,
                        reported the following (emphasis added):</span></p>
                    <blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #ad0000;margin: 20px 0;padding: 0;">
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Two
                          Israeli officials claimed to Axios that </span><strong>Trump
                          and his aides were only pretending to oppose
                          an Israeli attack in public</strong><span> \u2014
                          and didn't express opposition in private. "</span><strong>We
                          had a clear U.S. green light</strong><span>,"
                          one claimed.</span></p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>The
                          goal, they say, was to </span><strong>convince
                          Iran that no attack was imminent</strong><span>
                          and </span><strong>make sure Iranians on
                          Israel's target list wouldn't move to new
                          locations.</strong></p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Netanyahu's
                          aides even briefed Israeli reporters that
                          Trump had tried to put the brakes on an
                          Israeli strike in a call on [9 June], when in
                          reality </span><strong>the call dealt with
                          coordination ahead of the attack</strong><span>,
                          Israeli officials now say.</span></p>
                    </blockquote>
                    <h3 class="header-anchor-post"
style="position: relative;--highlight-bg: oklch(from var(--color-bg-accent-themed) l c h / 0.2);font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;font-size: 1.375em;">Trump
                      boasts of US-backed "slaughter" and "brutal"
                      attacks on Iran</h3>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Donald
                      Trump is proud of his role in the attack on Iran.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Hours
                        after Israel hit Tehran with US missiles, on 13
                        June, Trump took to his </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/114d2650-6612-4fd3-8394-34b8ee7aa088?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">website Truth Social</a><span>,
                        where he boasted that "the United States makes
                        the best and most lethal military equipment
                        anywhere in the World, BY FAR, and that Israel
                        has a lot of it, with much more to come - And
                        they know how to use it".</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Trump
                      wrote that some Iranian officials "spoke bravely,
                      but they didn't know what was about to happen.
                      They are all DEAD now, and it will only get
                      worse!"</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
                      US president referred to these Israeli strikes
                      that he was sponsoring as a form of "slaughter",
                      threatening that "the next already planned attacks
                      [will be] even more brutal".</p>
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style="font-size: 16px;line-height: 26px;margin: 32px auto;">
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                                width="1250" style="text-align: center;"><a
                                  class="image-link" target="_blank"
href="https://substack.com/redirect/633f3d60-9360-495d-bedf-3460dee7e2c8?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/edd1bc37-da81-47af-acfe-730bf7db63d8_1250x1250.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1250,&quot;width&quot;:1250,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Trump Iran Israel attack slaughter brutal dead Truth Social post June 2025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}"
alt="Trump Iran Israel attack slaughter brutal dead Truth Social post June 2025"
title="Trump Iran Israel attack slaughter brutal dead Truth Social post June 2025"
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                      </figure>
                    </div>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">One
                      and a half hours later, Trump published another
                      post on Truth Social.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
                      US president wrote, "Two months ago I gave Iran a
                      60 day ultimatum to 'make a deal'. They should
                      have done it! Today is day 61. I told them what to
                      do, but they just couldn't get there".</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Trump's
                      message was clear: if Tehran didn't give in to
                      Washington's demands and surrender its
                      sovereignty, the US would keep using Israel to
                      bomb Iran.</p>
                    <div class="captioned-image-container-static"
style="font-size: 16px;line-height: 26px;margin: 32px auto;">
                      <figure style="width: 100%;margin: 0 auto;">
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                              <td style="text-align: center;"><br>
                              </td>
                              <td class="content" align="left"
                                width="1250" style="text-align: center;"><a
                                  class="image-link" target="_blank"
href="https://substack.com/redirect/1540337c-4dc7-4977-8d56-a5491c6b200a?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                                    class="wide-image"
data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/641328da-03d1-4a79-bb0b-244965e9a1f1_1250x600.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:600,&quot;width&quot;:1250,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Trump Israel Iran attack 60 day ultimatum Truth Social post June 2025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}"
alt="Trump Israel Iran attack 60 day ultimatum Truth Social post June 2025"
title="Trump Israel Iran attack 60 day ultimatum Truth Social post June 2025"
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src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1100,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F641328da-03d1-4a79-bb0b-244965e9a1f1_1250x600.png"
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                      </figure>
                    </div>
                    <h3 class="header-anchor-post"
style="position: relative;--highlight-bg: oklch(from var(--color-bg-accent-themed) l c h / 0.2);font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;font-size: 1.375em;">Marco
                      Rubio lied; USA was deeply involved</h3>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>All
                        of this context demonstrates that US Secretary
                        of State and National Security Advisor </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/d079ba52-861c-4170-a30d-9a2b410fee65?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
                        rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">Marco Rubio was blatantly
                        lying</a><span> when he claimed, "Israel took
                        unilateral action against Iran. We are not
                        involved in strikes against Iran".</span></p>
                    <div class="captioned-image-container-static"
style="font-size: 16px;line-height: 26px;margin: 32px auto;">
                      <figure style="width: 100%;margin: 0 auto;">
                        <table class="image-wrapper" width="100%"
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                          <tbody>
                            <tr>
                              <td style="text-align: center;"><br>
                              </td>
                              <td class="content" align="left"
                                width="1180" style="text-align: center;"><a
                                  class="image-link" target="_blank"
href="https://substack.com/redirect/4a97be03-dbe5-494c-a1c5-13ba3576d9e3?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                                    class="wide-image"
data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/01798dff-ba86-4741-b72c-d6738e6de934_1180x1368.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1368,&quot;width&quot;:1180,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:391094,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.geopoliticaleconomy.report/i/165931477?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01798dff-ba86-4741-b72c-d6738e6de934_1180x1368.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}"
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                      </figure>
                    </div>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">This
                      is simply false. The Trump administration was
                      involved in overseeing the operation. The US
                      government provided Israel with intelligence and
                      logistical support, not to mention the missiles,
                      planes, and other military technology used to
                      attack Iran.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Donald
                      Trump personally gave Netanyahu and the Israeli
                      regime the green light.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Moreover,
                        when Tehran responded to Israel's unilateral
                        attack and hit back in self-defense, the </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/4565c169-a5d1-488e-b001-3d8cc3d271f1?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
                        rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">US military was directly
                        involved</a><span> in intercepting and shooting
                        down some of the Iranian missiles that were
                        heading toward Tel Aviv.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">What
                      is clear is that everything that happened was a
                      joint US-Israeli operation. Israel was not acting
                      alone, and it certainly was not "dragging" the US
                      into war. The Trump administration approved and
                      oversaw this act of war.</p>
                    <h3 class="header-anchor-post"
style="position: relative;--highlight-bg: oklch(from var(--color-bg-accent-themed) l c h / 0.2);font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;font-size: 1.375em;">Israel:
                      an unsinkable aircraft carrier for the US empire</h3>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Israel
                      is an extension of the US empire in one of the
                      most strategic regions of the world.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Tel
                      Aviv does not make significant military and
                      foreign-policy decisions without first getting the
                      approval of Washington.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Top
                        Israeli military officials have admitted that, </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/70fbbc20-b18a-4a09-956c-19b774c3c0bb?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
                        rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">without US support, the
                        IDF would not be able to wage war</a><span> on
                        Gaza (not to mention Iran, Lebanon, and Syria).</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>This
                        is why former US President Joe Biden repeatedly
                        declared that, \u201cWere there not an Israel, the </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/d1c0b9e4-5653-4a3b-a4a3-a463f28a6f6f?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
                        rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">United States of America
                        would have to invent an Israel</a><span> to
                        protect her interest in the region; the United
                        States would have to go out and invent an
                        Israel".</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>As
                        former US Secretary of State Alexander Haig
                        explained, \u201c</span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/d1c0b9e4-5653-4a3b-a4a3-a463f28a6f6f?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
                        rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">Israel is the largest
                        American aircraft carrier</a><span> in the world
                        that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one
                        American soldier, and is located in a critical
                        region for American national security\u201d.</span></p>
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style="font-size: 16px;line-height: 26px;margin: 32px auto;">
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                                width="1456" style="text-align: center;"><a
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href="https://substack.com/redirect/4d988d50-1e76-449d-b7af-5afcee5dc383?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b5b451af-ab5a-4480-a620-57984545576e_1662x1348.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1181,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:814794,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.geopoliticaleconomy.report/i/165931477?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb5b451af-ab5a-4480-a620-57984545576e_1662x1348.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}"
                                    alt="" width="550"
                                    height="446.1195054945055"
src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1100,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb5b451af-ab5a-4480-a620-57984545576e_1662x1348.png"
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                    </div>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Prime
                        Minister Netanyahu said the same. He proudly
                        referred to Israel as a \u201c</span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/6e722646-bd1c-4dd3-a69f-0181d6f90fdb?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
                        rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">mighty aircraft carrier</a><span>\u201d
                        of the US empire.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">It
                      is the United States that arms and protects
                      Israel. Washington gives it billions of dollars of
                      military aid every year, including the weapons,
                      ammunition, planes, and missiles that Israel uses
                      to kill Palestinians and attack Iran, Lebanon, and
                      Syria.</p>
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style="font-size: 16px;line-height: 26px;margin: 32px auto;">
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                                width="1456" style="text-align: center;"><a
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href="https://substack.com/redirect/442e74a6-b20b-4dd0-8bfb-781245753664?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                                    class="wide-image"
data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bba712a8-e8c9-4b7e-ab36-a4f2b07ef3c1_1456x1451.webp&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1451,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;US weapons Israel July 2024&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}"
                                    alt="US weapons Israel July 2024"
                                    title="US weapons Israel July 2024"
                                    width="550"
                                    height="548.1112637362637"
src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1100,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbba712a8-e8c9-4b7e-ab36-a4f2b07ef3c1_1456x1451.webp"
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                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>The
                        United States also protects Israel in
                        international fora, ensuring that it does not
                        face any consequences for constantly violating
                        international law and </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/970341d8-df98-4a6c-80c4-c45f1f2a87c3?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
                        rel=""
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">committing war crimes and
                        crimes against humanity</a><span>.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>The
                        Trump administration </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/44712aaf-5a28-4bef-81fa-032c000246c3?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
                        rel=""
style="color: rgb(54,55,55);text-decoration: underline;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">vetoed a resolution in
                        the UN Security Council</a><span> on 4 June that
                        had called for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
                        The US was the only country in the Council to
                        oppose the peace measure.</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;margin-bottom: 0;"><span>In
                        2023 and 2024, the Biden administration </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/6c403c87-8e4e-410b-8a88-3250985c95f4?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">vetoed four UN Security
                        Council resolutions</a><span> that demanded
                        peace in Gaza.</span></p>
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