𝗕𝗘𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗦𝗔𝗬 𝗜𝗦𝗥𝗔𝗘𝗟 𝗜𝗦 𝗣𝗨𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗔𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗔'𝗦 𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦, 𝗟𝗢𝗢𝗞 𝗔𝗧 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗠𝗔𝗟 𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗘𝗦 𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗬 𝗗𝗜𝗗

By M. A. Rothman

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Mar 10, 2026

 

 

 

Israel has 300 combat-ready fighter jets.

 

While Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and their allies were busy floating puppet-master memes about Israel running American foreign policy, Victor Davis Hanson decided to take a look at what America's actual formal allies did when the shooting started.

Spain refused to allow use of the NATO base near Gibraltar for operations against Iran. The same base. The same country that in 1986 told Ronald Reagan he couldn't fly over their territory to hit Libya — forcing a 2,500-mile detour. Same answer, different decade.

France declared the war dangerous from day one and wanted no part of it. They also couldn't fly over the Iberian Peninsula in 1986. Pattern established.

The United Kingdom — the most surprising betrayal according to VDH — told the United States it could not use Diego Garcia, the critical Indian Ocean base, for long-range bomber operations. Only defensive operations, they said. Then when their own base in Cyprus was targeted by Iran, they suddenly found one destroyer they could spare — but couldn't keep it for the weekend because they didn't want to pay overtime.

VDH asks whether Prime Minister Starmer remembers the Falklands War. In 1982 Britain needed to fight halfway around the world and didn't have the fuel, the missiles, or the reconnaissance to do it. Reagan said yes to everything — 2 million gallons of gas, satellite intelligence, 200 Sidewinder missiles, a blank check to Margaret Thatcher. Did they forget that? VDH says they're going to remember it, because America won't be doing that again.

Germany sent Chancellor Merz to the White House looking hangdog — because two weeks earlier he had been trashing Trump in front of massive crowds in Germany.

Now let's talk about Israel. The country everyone is accusing of running American foreign policy.

Israel has 300 combat-ready jet fighters. Britain has fewer. France has fewer. Germany has fewer. The so-called great powers of NATO — with populations of 55, 60, 80 million people — cannot match the air capability of a nation of 11 million. Those 300 planes are flying every single day alongside American forces, destroying the Iranian infrastructure that has funded H-z-b, H-m-s, and the Houthis for decades — the same groups that have k!lled Americans from Beirut to Baghdad to Kabul.

VDH's accounting of 47 years of Iranian aggression is worth absorbing. The embassy takeover in 1979. The Marine barracks bombing — 241 d*ad. Khobar Towers. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. Assassination teams sent worldwide. Attacks on Bolton, Pompeo, and Trump. Shaped charges — IEDs — sent through Islamic militants that k!lled not 600 Americans as commonly cited but closer to 1,500, with thousands more maimed, across both Iraq and Afghanistan. Forty-one American citizens among the 1,200 butchered on October 7th.

That is who Israel has been fighting on America's behalf for 47 years while NATO allies were calculating overtime pay.

𝗪𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝗯𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝘂𝗻𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀. 𝗞𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗽𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀.