Israel means the threat of nuclear annihilation will never end

 A friend asks:

>What would happen, if the U.S. stopped selling or donating arms to friendly countries who need them?  Consider the ramifications from a worldwide perspective.

I replied:

Two most dangerous possibilities:

1.  A number of other countries gang up and destroy the State of Israel.

2.  Israel, fearful that #1 might happen, blows up the world.

Thus, the State of Israel is a global doomsday machine.

US Empire serves Israel, at least for the moment, because we think we are better aligned.  It's "our" doomsday machine, the doomsday machine of US Empire...at long as US Empire remains Israel's best friend.  So we send $3.5B weapons, plus more when asked, plus vetos at the Security Council and No votes in the general assembly, and many other things.

That's alignment.  For now anyway.  But also one which works against the possibility of ever reducing expenditure on, let alone eliminating, nuclear weapons.  That's more alignment, around one of the two biggest possibilities of global annihilation, and also the needs of the military industrial complex.

Could Israel exist without Israel and the US having nuclear weapons?  They seem to want not only that, but to have a regional monopoly in the middle east.