@WeTheBrandon Second this, you've quickly become one of my fav geopolitical analysists. Not sure how I hadn't stumbled across you before the Iran war started considering how much of this type of content I consume. Better late than never I guess.
"By last fall, Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs had concluded that its conventional public diplomacy efforts—known in Israel as hasbara—were woefully insufficient. The Israelis worried about the influence of Carlson and Bannon and the suspicion taking hold among young conservatives that Israel exercised hidden control over America’s foreign policy, according to the Ministry official, and they feared Vance and his allies were steering the American right toward an isolationism fundamentally at odds with Israel's strategic interests."