This pretty much makes it clear that a Trump/Vance Administration is not one Israel could rely on, despite Bibi’s love for Trump:
To those members of the Jewish community still supporting the Trump-Vance ticket, please see this most recent interview which was given by Senator Vance earlier this week.
He openly states that he doesn’t believe that the United States should support Israel if its interests do not overlap with those of the US. He also stated that he does not believe that the US should support Israel in military action against Iran.
He states that his belief as to what would make it “worthwhile” for the US to be involved in military action against Iran is how much money it would cost the US to be involved and how much money would be saved by staying out of the conflict.
Given his statement a moment or two before regarding Vladimir Putin, one must seriously question the wisdom of relying on a Trump-Vance administration to have Israel’s back.
Don’t rely on my assessment. Watch the video for yourself: Sen. JD Vance on the Tim Dillon Show #414: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPlqID3zv4k
- “Obviously, Israel has the right to defend itself, but America’s interest is sometimes going to be distinct, like sometimes we’re going to have overlapping interests, and sometimes we’re going to have distinct interests,”
- “Our interest, I think very much, is in not going to war with Iran, right? It would be a huge distraction of resources. It would be massively expensive to our country.”
- “In the reaction to it, what I noticed is that American pro-Israel people, or people who fashioned themselves as pro-Israel, were actually much more militaristic than the Israelis who were living in Israel,”
- “The Israelis were like, OK, Hamas just attacked us. We’re gonna go really screw Hamas up. But of course, yeah, there’s a humanitarian side of that, and we want to try to minimize civilian casualties. But you had Americans saying, ‘Oh … This attack happened on Putin’s birthday, right? So we need to go to war against Russia, and obviously the Iranians funded part of this. We need to go to war with Iran.’”
- “Now, I don’t want Iran to get a nuclear weapon and I think we should be very strongly encouraging the Iranians and using all the influence that we have to encourage them to not have a nuclear weapon. I think nuclear proliferation is just a bad idea. Enough people have nukes, and the more people that have nukes, I think the greater the risk of nuclear war. But we just have to be smart about it,”
- ”Again, I’m not saying we stick ourselves into the Middle East and start a war here, but look, we recognize [that the] Israelis, Gulf Arab states don’t like Iran, so let the Israelis and the Gulf Arab states provide the counterbalance to Iran,”
- “America doesn’t have to constantly police every region of the world. We should empower people to police their own regions of the world. One, we would save a lot of money. Two, we’d save a lot of focus,”