Members of the Senate Democratic Caucus blocked debate on an annual military spending authorization bill over President Donald Trump’s ongoing illegal war of choice on Iran and provisions for closer US-Israeli military integration.
Detailed report by Israel’s Jerusalem Post newspaper on US military aid to Israel, and Israel’s worry that if the MoU is not signed by January, any new deal could face opposition from a potentially Democrat-controlled Congress. (The next MoU would be expected to run from January 2029-2039.)
The figure refers only to direct war costs — the immediate budgetary costs directly tied to the war, including operations, personnel, and matériel.
Proposals to move U.S. troops from the Gulf to Israel would empower Israeli aggression and keep the U.S. entangled in pointless war, writes former defense intel analyst Harrison Mann.
The rejected amendment would have stymied an NDAA resolution that would allow the Israeli military unprecedented and extremely dangerous access into Pentagon operations. The next few months may decide the U.S.-Israel relationship for decades to come.
Religious freedom group says 200 troops sent complaints of superiors using extremist Christian rhetoric to justify war on Iran
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced airstrikes would intensify across Iran, telling reporters on Wednesday that U.S. forces were delivering “death and destruction from the sky all day long.”
Eight months after Trump insisted that Operation Midnight Hammer “totally obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program, he has deployed the largest military presence in the Middle East since the Iraq War.
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