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The U.S.–Israel alliance remains deeply embedded through intelligence cooperation, joint weapons development, extensive diplomatic coordination and decades of defense funding. Netanyahu's remarks are less as an imminent policy shift and more as political signaling, since replacing U.S. support would demand massive industrial expansion and take decades to achieve.

Netanyahu's push to end U.S. military aid is a signal that America's alliances are fracturing globally. Europe is racing toward military independence, Canada has walked away from the old relationship, and allies everywhere are concluding that depending on U.S. political will is a liability. America is accelerating its own retreat from global leadership.