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Netanyahu Calls Turkey Unfriendly

from Teen Takeovers & Netanyahu’s New Nightmare | The Tim Dillon Show #503 · #503

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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.

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  • 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.
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Benjamin NetanyahuFriend of the showTurkeyMuslim BrotherhoodDSADana Basher

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