Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say

The Pentagon is increasingly concerned about Israel ramping up its spying on the U.S., recently raising the counterintelligence threat level from America’s top ally in the Middle East to the highest…

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The U.S. Secretary of Defense brought his wife to Singapore in matching “This is War” t-shirts to work out on the USS Boxer. pic.twitter.com/w5tTdYCZc9

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boognish_bear said:

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Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice claims the war with Iran has fundamentally reshaped the Middle East in America’s favor, leaving Tehran weaker, Israel stronger, and giving President Donald Trump a historic opportunity to secure long-term regional stability. pic.twitter.com/crzb4RnNFD

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) June 5, 2026

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That checks out.

D. C. Bear said:

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HuMcK said:

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"did all of NATO refuse to go to war because we used our capital up after 9/11?"

They refused because the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has nothing to do with policing the Strait of Hormuz. It's humiliating that we even asked them too, and doubly so that we did it after insulting them and saying we didn't need their help. A more competent President who hadn't already pissed away his political capital (which, as you insinuate, is not unlimited) would have attempted to form a coalition of willing partners before kicking the hornets nest.

People like Whiterock live in a partisan fantasy. Listening to them is useful insofar as it's a window into the MAGA spin machine, but it's mostly just them trying to support their wishful thinking with carefully curated numbers and statistics.

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Afghanistan has nothing to do with the North Atlantic.

When Trump decided to strike Iran, he should have done so with the purpose of getting rid of the criminal regime that has been in charge there for the better part of a half century.

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He did exactly that. Now what?

Has Trump Opened Pandora's Box?

"2.5 months in to the U.S.-Israeli war against a nation that posed no threat to the United States' vital interests, justified by a pyramid of lies, several things are abundantly clear. President Trump failed to define clear and viable political objectives to achieve in our role as Israel's proxy in yet another war of choice. "Viable" here meaning objectives that are realistically attainable through the military means at a nation's disposal.

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In his classic work Strategy, British theorist B. H. Liddell Hart emphasized that a political leader's foremost duty is to ensure that war aims are grounded in military reality. As he famously warned, political objectives must "not demand what is militarily impossible."

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Yet that is precisely the error President Trump committed."

Good objective read about the situation we find ourselves in.

Sam Lowry said:

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D. C. Bear said:

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HuMcK said:

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"did all of NATO refuse to go to war because we used our capital up after 9/11?"

They refused because the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has nothing to do with policing the Strait of Hormuz. It's humiliating that we even asked them too, and doubly so that we did it after insulting them and saying we didn't need their help. A more competent President who hadn't already pissed away his political capital (which, as you insinuate, is not unlimited) would have attempted to form a coalition of willing partners before kicking the hornets nest.

People like Whiterock live in a partisan fantasy. Listening to them is useful insofar as it's a window into the MAGA spin machine, but it's mostly just them trying to support their wishful thinking with carefully curated numbers and statistics.

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Afghanistan has nothing to do with the North Atlantic.

When Trump decided to strike Iran, he should have done so with the purpose of getting rid of the criminal regime that has been in charge there for the better part of a half century.

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He did exactly that. Now what?

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You're right. Odd he doesn't talk about that anymore.

It looks unlikely he'll even get a deal as good as Obama got.

Well, we have lots of pallets since we are making everything here now...

C. Jordan said:

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Sam Lowry said:

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D. C. Bear said:

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HuMcK said:

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"did all of NATO refuse to go to war because we used our capital up after 9/11?"

They refused because the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has nothing to do with policing the Strait of Hormuz. It's humiliating that we even asked them too, and doubly so that we did it after insulting them and saying we didn't need their help. A more competent President who hadn't already pissed away his political capital (which, as you insinuate, is not unlimited) would have attempted to form a coalition of willing partners before kicking the hornets nest.

People like Whiterock live in a partisan fantasy. Listening to them is useful insofar as it's a window into the MAGA spin machine, but it's mostly just them trying to support their wishful thinking with carefully curated numbers and statistics.

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Afghanistan has nothing to do with the North Atlantic.

When Trump decided to strike Iran, he should have done so with the purpose of getting rid of the criminal regime that has been in charge there for the better part of a half century.

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He did exactly that. Now what?

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You're right. Odd he doesn't talk about that anymore.

It looks unlikely he'll even get a deal as good as Obama got.

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Possible, but the rest of the Gulf States might be even less friendly with Iran, might be the best we can hope for.

You can't just go to war with China, or Russia, so you try to make sure they are out on an island with few friends, few opportunities to seize power. Apparently you can't beat Iran either, so you do the same.

Netanyahu knows Americans are sick of funding Israel’s wars. So now he’s working with Congress to hide military aid inside Pentagon co-production deals.

That means MORE U.S. tax dollars for Israel, with even LESS oversight.

Not gonna happen!

— Sen. Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) June 6, 2026