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What Tucker Carlson won't tell you about U.S. military aid to Israel

JL;DR SUMMARY Dany Bahar critiques Tucker Carlson's argument against U.S. military aid to Israel, highlighting it as a classic political accounting trick known as a false dilemma. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Bernie SandersU.S. Military AidPolitical RhetoricEconomicsTucker CarlsonPopulismHugo ChavezFalse DilemmaZero Sum Thinking

Places mentioned

Phoenix, Arizona, United States
"Conservative political commentator and podcast host Tucker Carlson speaks at Turning Points annual AmericaFest conference in Phoenix, Arizona on Dec. 18, 2025."
United States
"Carlson knows that hes deceiving his audience. He understands that cutting Israel aid to zero would not build a single hospital or hire a single teacher. Instead, it would most likely be redistributed within the State Departments foreign operations budget, or shave a vanishingly miniscule amount off the huge and ever-growing U.S. budget deficit."
Israel
"The federal government spends roughly $7 trillion a year. We send more than $3.8 billion in annual military aid to Israel; that represents 0.054% of the budget."
Ben-Gurion Airport, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"Tucker Carlson sat across from United States Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee at Israels Ben-Gurion Airport and delivered a version of an argument that demagogues have recycled for centuries."
United Kingdom
"In Venezuela, Hugo Chavez built an entire movement on the premise that oil revenue spent on anything other than social programs was revenue stolen from the poor."
Venezuela
"In Venezuela, Hugo Chavez built an entire movement on the premise that oil revenue spent on anything other than social programs was revenue stolen from the poor."

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