US spent more defending Israel than Israel did
JD Vance stated that the United States spent more money defending Israel during the 3-month war than Israel itself spent on its own defense.
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JD Vance’s Warning to Israel, the Last Desperate Move of Israel-Firsters & Iran’s Growing Strength
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Jun 25, 2026
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JD Vance's Unprecedented Public Rebuke of Israel
At 24:30 · chapter starts 15:10
Tucker introduces the central political event of the episode: JD Vance's public statement that Donald Trump is literally the only world leader still sympathetic to Israel and that American taxpayers paid more to defend Israeli cities during the three-month war than Israel itself spent on its own defense. Tucker plays the Vance clip in full, then unpacks why this was unprecedented — for decades, no American official associated with the White House has said anything even approaching mild criticism of Israel. The script, Tucker explains, has always been: you're special, the rules don't apply to you, whatever you want we'll back. Vance broke the script — not with an attack, but with a reminder of reality, like a parent telling a college kid on the parental payroll that they don't actually get to do whatever they want. Tucker uses Nikki Haley's famous claim — 'America needs Israel more than Israel needs America' — as a benchmark for the absurdity the Vance comments had to overcome.
JD Vance's Warning to Israel: You Have No Other Friends
Vance told the world that Trump is the only head of state sympathetic to Israel, running the world's only superpower, and Israeli cabinet officials are attacking him anyway. The response from Israel's American agents? Call Vance an antisemite. One analyst suggested the US 'maybe needs another 9/11.'
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