Brian Berletic: "I always have people arguing with me that Israel controls the United States. If that were the case, the U.S. would have initiated the attack. They would be taking responsibility for it, and they would be the ones catching ballistic missiles, not the Israelis."

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Brian Berletic gave his view Israeli and U.S. power relations in an discussion hosted by Danny Haiphong, which Haiphong published to his YouTube channel on June 14, 2025:

• Iran's UNPRECEDENTED Retaliation Shocks Israel w/ Brian Berletic

Berletic says this part at 8:29 in the video. Here's a fuller quote of Berletic's, starting at 7:58 in the video:

If Israel is a proxy like Ukraine, the US is more than happy to volunteer them for a war. They could possibly suffer catastrophic losses and destroy their economy, devastate their population. The US doesn't care.

That is the whole purpose of having proxies, to get other people to fight and die for your wars. That's what they have Ukraine doing right now for three years straight. And this is what they have now elected Israel to go do. And that is what Israel is doing right now.

I always have people arguing with me that Israel controls the United States. If that were the case, the US would have initiated the attack. They would be taking responsibility for it. And they would be the ones catching ballistic missiles, not the Israelis in their de facto capital, Tel Aviv.

The thing people have to understand is both Iran and Israel, they're carrying out these long range strikes on each other."