*The critical Israeli smashing of Iran’s strategic posture in Lebanon, Syria, Gaza and the resulting setback to Iran’s strategic posture in Iraq and Yemen has led to Iran’s elimination from the regional deliberation of the fate of Iran’s proxy, Hamas, facilitating the unchallenged US domination of the process. *Israel’s trouncing of Iran’s chief proxy, Hezbollah, led to the dismantling of Syria’s pro-Russian Assad regime, along with the evacuation of the Russian military presence from the naval base in Tartus (established in 1971) and the air force base in Khmeimim (established in 2015), which severely undermines Russia’s strategic posture - and therefore bolsters the US strategic posture - in Syria, Lebanon, the Eastern Mediterranean and Libya. *The aforementioned facts highlight Israel’s role as a unique added-value-ally of the US, in addition to Israel serving as a leading innovation center for the US high tech sector, a battle-tested laboratory of the US Armed Forces and the US defense and aerospace industries (saving the US mega-billion-dollar in research and development, increasing US exports and expanding US employment), a show-room demonstrating the edge of US military systems over global competition, a ground-breaking source of intelligence, and the largest US military base with no need for us soldiers.
Author: Amb, (ret.) Yoram Ettinger
Published at: 2025-10-19 21:06:00
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