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Netanyahu Calls Turkey Unfriendly
from Teen Takeovers & Netanyahu’s New Nightmare | The Tim Dillon Show #503 · #503
7 min
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Tim mocks Netanyahu's comments to Dana Bash and Greta Van Susteren calling Turkey an unfriendly state hostile to the US over F-35 sales, comparing Netanyahu to an exhausting friend who hates everyone, and questioning why the Muslim Brotherhood's feelings toward the US matter.
- Netanyahu is becoming the guy at the party who's a real bummer, hating everyone and making it hard to include him.
- When Netanyahu calls Turkey not a friendly state, he's basically signaling they're next on his list, like a daytime talk show host teasing upcoming segments.
- Tim questions why Netanyahu would care about selling F-35s to Turkey unless he was planning to go to war with them eventually.
- Netanyahu's complaint that Turkey is infected with the Muslim Brotherhood that hates America reads as needless drama to Tim.
- Tim clarifies he's no fan of the Muslim Brotherhood but doesn't understand the obsession with forcing every country into enemy or ally categories.
- A comedian just got jailed for a joke in Turkey, but Tim questions whether that automatically makes Turkey an enemy rather than just a country with bad policies.
- Most relationships with countries shouldn't be binary—Turkey is just there, like most people in life are just around you to some degree.
- The idea that America has to defeat every ideology it disagrees with is insane and has nothing to do with American well-being.
- The entire framing of international relations as a constant ideological conflict misses the point of what actually makes a country function well.
Benjamin NetanyahuFriend of the showTurkeyMuslim BrotherhoodDSADana Basher