Experts in military technology and the effects of operations have rendered their standard estimates of likely fatalities, none have been below the 200,000 number (see Ted Postol). It has not been reported by the captive media, all of which is complicit in the most horrific crime of the 21st century.

I wonder how much political space is vacant because left critiques of the military on principle rarely overlap with right-wing critiques which are aimed at rehabilitating it towards its nominal purpose of actual national defense.

They're fighting not just against military collapse but economic collapse. Katz is no replacement for Gallant, he does not command the same loyalty from the armed forces. Trump may well stump for a huge relief package for Israel, but it would be unpopular. Despite Trump, they are in a bad situation.