Because it's the only country allowed get away with stuff that would be an international scandal if a normal country did it.
Russia, China and America each have notable offensive cyberwarfare capabilities. (Pyongyang is a nuclear-armed cybercrime ring at this point.)
China doesn't have large sanctions because it plays a key role in the economy, but the US had massive regime change intelligence operations against them in the 90s, but they failed and were dismantled.
In that one incident, they killed and injured more than double the number killed and injured by Al Qaeda in the attack on the USS Cole.
That’s as much as your mom knows.
What’s this have to do with the people you don’t hear talking about him being mostly totally ignorant about the person and subject?
Yes.
But yeah the country under an eternal international microscope is the one “getting away with it.”
Though this may be changing now with Trump and the israelification of america.
Come on... Snowden told us that we were all being spied on and we made some movies, some books, a lot of blog posts and that was it.
Abu Ghraib? The people literally on film doing things were prosecuted, and it was passed off as an essentially low-level problem.
Gitmo still exists and has prisoners.
We invaded Iraq on a lie, literally lied to the UN about a nuclear threat that didn't exist. Elected that guy a second time, just like Reagan and Nixon and Trump.
What we're good at is public debate that goes nowhere and losing wars in the Middle East.
It's hard to tell, on the surface it looks a lot like the usual "Sinister conspiracy" stuff that leaks out of sewer gratings online.
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...Did you just emerge from a bunker that you entered in 1946? Here in 2026 we're on quite a losing streak against MUCH weaker opponents. I mean I get it, you're doing the "Jewish conspiracy" thing and reality, truth, words having meanings are all inconsequential to you, but you have to try harder than this.
2. Israel is embedded in US politics. So US government is allowed to purchase this from Israeli contractors but I doubt they would be allowed to purchase sensitive stuff like from a neutral country like UAE.
So, the US is the customer and also protects Israel so Israel has built an entire industry around it.