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The difference is Israel's enemies are easy to defeat. Russia, not so much. Europe made the same mistake as in world war II. Believing their own propaganda and convincing themselves that Russia would be easy to defeat. Trump talks to the military and knows what's reality.

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So easy that Iran is still going strong, working on their nuclear weapons programme, with an outspoken goal of destroying Israel?

I wasn’t around for WWII, but now don’t think you have this quite right. The US fought against Germany and its allies (and Japan, which had directly attacked the US and continued to fight after Germany surrendered). The war was never against Russia.

Sure, maybe the US could have invaded Russia afterwards, but that would have been a disaster, kind of like how Germany’s invasion of Russia was a disaster and a bit like how Russia’s recent invasion of Ukraine has been a real mess for Russia.

Well, GP isn't wrong. Nazi Germany controlled most of Europe in WWII, fought against Russia (Soviet Union) and lost...

Somehow I assumed post meant “Allies” by “Europe”, but I guess it was rather ambiguous.

Actually, the difference is that a high amount of government officials are loyal to Israel.

If they're so easy to defeat why have we sent $30B+ to a country with a good economy and great quality of life for its own people to help them defeat them? Maybe they should pay for it all themselves since they keep prolonging all their wars?

Israel is using these bombs on Hamas and Hezbollah mostly, both of which it hasn't defeated after 1 1/2 years of complete material superiority. It's actually impossible to defeat an enemy that uses asymmetric warfare. Israel already knows this, but Netanjahu needs the war to continue to stay in power.

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