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U.N. votes to end US embargo on Cuba; US and Israel oppose (www.reuters.com)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If the US and Israel are completely aligned in foreign policy, what keeps Israel from just becoming treated as another state of the US?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Israel has more power over the US than states.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its ethnonationalist policies would violate Federal law pretty severely, and then the US is explicitly on the hook for Israel's war crimes, terrorism, assassinations, etc.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The US isn't on the hook for it's own war crimes, terrorism, or assassinations, so that wouldn't matter

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yes, "all's fair in love and war" means you can do anything you want if you can get away with it.