On Feb 21, US President Donald Trump said he is “really” fine with any decision Israel makes as to whether to continue to a second stage of the Gaza hostage deal or return to war in Gaza.

Asked about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s position in an interview with Fox News, Trump said: “He’s actually not torn. I mean, you know where he stands, and he would like to go in, and he’s just so angry, and he should be. If he’s not angry, then there’d be something wrong with him, frankly.”

As one Telegram news channel puts it, Trump just made it clear: he’s fine with whatever Netanyahu wants. War? Sure. Truce? Also fine. The only certainty? Israel calls the shots, and Washington bows.

Let’s cut through the noise. When asked if he’s okay with Israel plunging Gaza into further bloodshed or negotiating for hostages, Trump didn’t hesitate: “I really am.” Implication? Whatever Bibi wants, Bibi gets. Because in this administration, just like the last one, US foreign policy is dictated straight from Tel Aviv.

Trump goes on to parrot Netanyahu’s rage, calling him a “very angry man” who “should be.” Angry at what, exactly? That Israel, the region’s apartheid occupier, just got the global community to look the other way as it slaughtered over 61,000 Palestinians, including 17,492 children? Or that even after this industrial-scale massacre, Hamas is still standing, Gaza refuses to break, and the West Bank is on fire?

Then comes the obligatory Holocaust reference. The returning hostages, Trump says, looked “like a concentration camp in Germany.” Meanwhile, he purposely looks the other way when Gaza itself has been reduced to a real-life concentration camp, with its people starved, bombed, and denied medical aid, all funded by US taxpayer dollars.

Here’s the reality: Trump is selling America out to Tel Aviv, just like Biden, just like Obama, just like Bush. The “America First” rhetoric? Dead on arrival. Because when it comes to US policy, Israel comes first, always.

But there is another way of interpreting what Trump really means. And this could just make Trump’s statement on Netanyahu much more eventful. Netanyahu waltzes into Washington and walks out with a blank check, while Trump grins like a man who just sold America’s soul for a few campaign shekels.

Haaretz calls it a “bromance”, but let’s drop the euphemisms, it’s a one-way street of American subservience.

Bibi’s regime is knee-deep in Gaza’s genocide, defying international law at every turn, yet Trump, self-proclaimed champion of “America First”, hands over the keys to the US Treasury like a low-rent concierge. Billions flow, weapons keep shipping, and any pretence of US sovereignty gets flushed down the drain.

But here’s the catch: Trump’s mood swings are as volatile as a collapsing Ponzi scheme. As the geopolitical tides shift and Trump sees no more electoral gold in unconditional Zionist bootlicking, the question is will the script flip?

So, how long will the bromance last, asked Haaretz.

There is yet a third way of seeing what Trump means – he just can’t be bothered with Israel or Netanyahu. Do whatever you want … I can’t be bothered because I have so many things on my plates!

For one, he is having a lot of headaches in dealing with Ukrainian comedian president Volodymyr Zelensky after the ruckus at the Oval Office last Friday (Feb 28) beamed worldwide for all to see.

No amount of threat or intimidation could send the dictator of Ukraine cowering under the bed. Instead, after being thrown out from the White House, Zelensky went straight to that Anglo-Saxon country, UK to get consolation and support from the warmonger Keir Starmer.

Starmer wasted no time in calling an emergency summit between UK, Ukraine, Canada, Norway and 13 EU countries. At the summit Starmer said Europe “must do the heavy lifting” in ensuring a durable peace deal between Russia and Ukraine but added that the “effort must have strong US backing”.

“The UK is prepared to back this with boots on the ground and planes in the air together with others,” he told a press conference on Sunday (March 2) after the summit. Starmer also said the UK and France would lead a European effort to devise a peace plan that they would then take to the US.

Leaving the summit, Mark Rutte, Nato secretary-general, said the “debate is ongoing” over US security guarantees for Ukraine, even though Trump earlier this week said: “I’m not going to make security guarantees beyond very much. We’re going to have Europe do that.”

But this idea of European boots on the ground is a non-starter because Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has already said the presence of Western European peacekeepers would escalate the conflict.

Moscow earlier warned any foreign troops in Ukraine without a UN mandate would be considered legitimate targets.

Moreover, Russia is winning the war and wants a ceasefire and the peace that follows to be based on thrashing out first the root causes of the war, thus it has a stronger say in determining how the war will end.

Zelensky’s intransigence against Trump continued even after the summit, perhaps sensing the support from Europe, he provoked Trump late Sunday (March 2) by saying that a deal to end the war between Ukraine and Russia “is still very, very far away.”

This deepened further the rift between Washington and Kiev as the following day Trump was said to be considering cutting military aid to Ukraine and expressed new outrage at Zelensky for that statement.

“This is the worst statement that could have been made by Zelensky, and America will not put up with it for much longer!” Trump barked.

“It is what I was saying, this guy doesn’t want there to be Peace as long as he has America’s backing and, Europe, in the meeting they had with Zelenskyy, stated flatly that they cannot do the job without the US. Probably not a great statement to have been made in terms of a show of strength against Russia. What are they thinking?”