The legislation calls for nearly $1.4 trillion in defense spending and would expand Israeli influence over the US Congress and military

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The legislation calls for nearly $1.4 trillion in defense spending and would expand Israeli influence over the US Congress and military

Lawmakers in Washington are quietly moving to integrate the US and Israeli militaries in unprecedented ways, according to a clause in the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) released earlier this week.

Section 224 of the NDAA, entitled “United States–Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative,” proposes bilateral defense research and development, co-production of weapons, joint ventures, licensing agreements, and other US-Israeli military-industrial complex cooperation.

If implemented, the initiative would “arguably do more to intertwine the US military with the Israeli military than the more than $200 billion (inflation adjusted) in military assistance Israel has received from the US since its founding in 1948,” Responsible Statecraft (RS) wrote. It is “the first step towards shifting aid further into the shadows” and “would all but fuse the two countries’ armed forces together,” RS added.

Section 224 of the NDAA calls for expanded US–Israeli coordination in the areas of defense tech, including AI, quantum, autonomous systems, directed energy, cyber, and biotech.

It also proposes “network integration” and “data fusion,” which would allow Israel to access the US military’s data.

If implemented, the measures would give the Israeli government expanded influence over the US political system. “By expanding or starting new co-production facilities like it already has in Mississippi and Arkansas, the Israeli government could boast of providing jobs on US soil, thereby securing allies among members of Congress who represent the districts where those jobs lie,” RS concluded.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    16·
    8 hours ago

    Let’s fuse ourselves to genociding rapists. That’s awesome!

    It’s worth checking out TrueAnon’s (it’s a podcast) first two of a three-part series on Israel extracting sperm from dead soldiers for post-death insemination. (The third one is still pending.) It’s a weird culture.

    Fuck israel.

    • Jarix@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      Is trump going to bring the IDF to help with election fraud or whatever bullshit he will manifest to justify it?

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      51·
      8 hours ago

      They’re only the greatest source or war and murder in human history. What’s not to like?

  • acargitz@lemmy.caEnglish
    131·
    12 hours ago

    The American far right making sure America’s little settler outpost in the middle east can continue to do genocide unimpeded by domestic opposition.

  • soratoyuki@piefed.zipEnglish
    971·
    18 hours ago

    There can’t be many examples in history of an empire being cucked by it’s own client state, but here we are.

    • Hegar@fedia.io
      6·
      16 hours ago

      The Medes were the pre-eminent indo-iranian group for a bunch of the iron age.

      They were integral to the grand alliance that finally brought down the Assyrian Empire, after similar alliances had formed and been defeated. The Median Empire took over huge chunks of the defeated empire and their name was so well known that even in the Persian Wars, the Greeks referred to joining the Persian Empire as Medizing.

      Speaking of, one of the subordinate tribes in the Median Empire’s coalition was a minor regional player that today we call the Persians…

  • TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.caEnglish
    41·
    17 hours ago

    Why do I get the feeling that at some point in the future we are going to have a world war against the fascist US and Israel.

      • redsand@infosec.pubEnglish
        4·
        8 hours ago

        The Franklin incident from the 80s was probably the same ring Epstein and maxwell took over in the 90s

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          7 hours ago

          Idk about “the same”.

          Epstein was very NY/London/Paris focused, while Franklin was run out of the Midwest. Epstein sourced a lot of his victims from the collapsed USSR block, while Franklin was pulling kids out of the US foster system.

          If I had to guess, Tom DeLay and Jack Abramoff were closer to Franklin than Epstein.

        • EvergreenGuru@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          8 hours ago

          The fact that Epstein wasn’t replaced with a successor after his indictment seems more surprising in context, considering the criminal nature of these organizations and their desire for secrecy.

  • BigMacHole@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    251·
    18 hours ago

    America First Patriots means giving TRILLIONS of US Taxpayer Dollars to the Israeli Military!

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    181·
    18 hours ago

    Section 224 of the NDAA calls for expanded US–Israeli coordination in the areas of defense tech, including AI, quantum, autonomous systems, directed energy, cyber, and biotech.

    Cool. We’re all getting in on the same set of contractor scams.

    • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      5·
      18 hours ago

      Previously the US government was only going to be scammed by US companies. In this plan, they’ll also be scammed by Israeli companies, which if my mall kiosk experience is accurate, are already extremely proficient at scamming.

  • Major_Tsiom@fedia.io
    9·
    16 hours ago

    Does anyone know why Israel has so much power? They are too small to be a world threat and don’t have the resources to really demand much. It has to be some greaseball back room shit. But what do they have?

    • Jarix@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      There was a former CIA guy or so he claimed that pretty much made the claim the only people they didn’t fuck with in the intelligence community was Mossad. Not because they couldn’t but because mossad will use any means. ANY means to succeed collateral damage be damned and they are hardline on revenge. And they are good at it because they are absolutely ruthlesssly competent.

      And I bet they did a LOT of dirty work for the USA to acquire that skillset, amongst other entitties

    • orlyowl@piefed.caEnglish
      24·
      16 hours ago

      Imagine for a moment that the purpose of Epstein’s sex trafficking was to get compromising video and other evidence to use for blackmailing powerful leaders and such for Israeli intelligence.

      I don’t claim to know for sure that is true, but I feel like a great many things make more sense if it is.

      • redsand@infosec.pubEnglish
        4·
        8 hours ago

        They also sell backdoored software to governments around the world. Think databases and law enforcement software like celebrite. Between that, the blackmail, the bribes often through PACs and the CIA they are effectively China’s only rival for world dominance… Huh that thought didn’t end how I expected

      • Major_Tsiom@fedia.io
        1·
        10 hours ago

        Conspiracy theory. There is definitely something going on and you may be right, but this has been going on for a long time.

        • architect@thelemmy.clubEnglish
          6·
          9 hours ago

          I mean, yea, look at who Epsteins mentor was and who Maxwell’s dad was. It has been going on a long time for sure.

      • bthest@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        6 hours ago

        Nah, Israel does JACK SHIT for the US militarily speaking. It’s one way relationship. No bases or Israeli assets have ever been available to the US.

        They provided NOTHING during the Gulf War other than being a wedge and diplomatic liability. The US had to send a bunch of assets into the empty Iraqi desert (thus weakening main front) just to hunt SCUDs taking pot shots at Israel.

        They are the most ungrateful pieces of shits. And they openly respond with THREATS whenever America shows even the slightest hesitation on giving them anything and everything they want (Not long ago Pollard on was on an Israeli TV show bragging about threatening the US with the same nuclear weapons he helped create!)

        And just recently Trump inquired about Israel contributing troops or support (because the US military is a joke now) FOR A WAR THEY ASKED THE US TO START and they said “lol no.” And that dumb pedophile just keeps licking their assholes.

        And also being slavish Israeli enablers has had massive detrimental to US relationship with Arab allies (who the real power brokers in the region) and has made itself a target by proxy.

        • MartianRecon@lemmus.orgEnglish
          2·
          6 hours ago

          This just scratches the surface of how shitty Israel is to the US.

          The attacked the USS Liberty as well, for example.

          Israel should be declared persona non grata, and ceremoniously kicked off our fucking welfare the second a Democrat takes office. I’m tired of funding these ungrateful deadbeat, genocidal assholes.

      • Major_Tsiom@fedia.io
        1·
        10 hours ago

        Zionism shouldn’t fly in the US. The religious power here is Christian affiliated. What are Zionists to us? Capitalism? How is serving Israel’s interests profitable to private capitalists? If a majority of people don’t like them, why publicly support them if it may negatively impact profits?

    • Bogus007@lemmy.zipEnglish
      71·
      15 hours ago

      Israel has one of the strongest intelligence agencies in the world. Does Pegasus ring a bell? Actually, they may even see what you have typed on your smartphone in Lemmy.

      • Züri@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5·
        15 hours ago

        As far everything you post on Lemmy is public. No need for spyware.

    • just2look@lemmy.zipEnglish
      8·
      16 hours ago

      They have been involved in bribery of world leaders for decades, they have a PAC that is deeply embedded in US politics, and they have invested heavily in intelligence collection (HUMINT and SIGINT), including gathering and creating compromising information about key individuals.

      • Major_Tsiom@fedia.io
        1·
        11 hours ago

        They can’t have enough money to bribe everybody with access to power everywhere. Shit, not even the United States can do that. But both US political parties serve Israel’s interests. Almost every Western European country backs them. The United States is the wealthiest country in the world with by far the biggest military machine. Yet the US seems to always bend a knee to Israel no matter how unpopular that country may be to American citizens. There are plenty of conspiracy theories, but there is definitely something going on…

        • just2look@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          9 hours ago

          They don’t have to buy everyone, but if you look at US elections it is obvious they they spend a lot getting friendly politicians into power. There are others that are likely compromised in other ways. Plus there are religious nut jobs that are working to bring about the prophesied end of the world so they can be fucking raptures. All of that plays into giving Israel outsized influence.

          There is also the racial piece though. Israel is framed as the ‘good guys’ that are the West’s defenders against the ‘evil Muslims’. A frustratingly large portion of the world population either doesn’t care, or actively condones wholesale slaughter of brown people.

          • Major_Tsiom@fedia.io
            1·
            10 hours ago

            Maybe a house representative. A senator? A majority of house reps and senators AND the president? The heads of BOTH political parties? The press? What about the UK? Germany? They don’t have that much money. There is something else going on.

            • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
              1·
              7 hours ago

              That’s just the cash price to buy outright. An RV here or there, a vocal and well funded PAC, worldwide propaganda and information warfare for decades, and you can get enough people on your side.

              But they do have that much money. They have an outsize GDP from their domestic industry, plus huge material support from foreign governments, plus a global support network

    • Grimy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      94·
      16 hours ago

      Blame ordinary folks instead of pushing primaries to remove the genocidal maniacs in charge, that will solve it!