No need to wonder who's in charge. Israel is Washington’s most favoured client state, but it *has* to operate within parameters laid down by the US.

At the same time, Israel influences "those parameters in its own interests, chiefly by shaping military, political & cultural discourse in the US through the many levers available to it."

Just ask whose particular interests are prevailing at any one time.

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Interview: "Trump & Hegseth & Rubio have completely misjudged the nature of this war".

And "the lies that the American mainstream media..are telling the American people.. are putting us in jeopardy in a real substantive sense"...

"because the American people have no way of judging just how foolhardy, how stupid, how unwise, how violative of international dictum & rule this war is."

~Ret Col Lawrence Wilkerson

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Ret. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Netanyahu Could Turn to Nuclear Bombs If Iran War Escalates

As President Trump gives conflicting statements about the length and objectives of the war he launched with Israel against Iran, fears are growing that the conflict could continue to expand throughout the region and beyond.

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Interview: A War for Oil: US Quest to Control the World’s Oil Trade

"Trump opted to attack Iran despite progress at indirect US-Iran negotiations."

The reason "has nothing to do with its getting an atom bomb". The reason is US control of oil.

"The Trump administration may've been after the ability to turn off the power to countries that don’t follow US foreign policy".

~Michael Hudson

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A War for Oil: Economist Michael Hudson on U.S. Quest to Control the World’s Oil Trade

We speak with economist Michael Hudson, who details how President Trump opted to attack Iran despite progress at indirect U.S.-Iran negotiations.

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Analysis: The US-Israeli Attack on Iran Was to Prevent Peace Not Advance It

Agreement was in reach, said the mediator, that "Iran will never, ever have a nuclear material that will create a bomb."

However, Trump was still claiming that the Iranians were refusing such a deal....

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Interview:
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