>>111063243>>111063332>>111063476>>111063855US wants to prevent a regional hegemon that is not Amercia from dominating the Mid East. North America has always had enough oil for domestic consumption. US wants to control the flow of oil to Europe and Asia. The pentagon really likes the idea of being able to turn off the lights in Beijing or Tokyo without firing a single shot in Asia/Pacific.
Israel helps prevent a Mid East hegemony. They bomb Iraqi nuclear reactors, and assassinated Iranian nuclear scientists (for their own reasons, not as a favor to the US). Happenstance, they have the same goal, so US and Israel both work to prevent a new Arab, Persian, or Turkish caliphate from dominating the ME. There is some cringey boomer Israel love, flying israeli flags at american political conventions, but it doesn't effect policy as much as people think (e.g. there is no defense treaty with Israel like there is with NATO, Japan, South Korea, etc). Japan, a former enemy; potential competitor for domination of the Pacific in the distant future, has a unilateral defense treaty with the US, but no one would say Americans are in Japan's thrall (just weebs are).
