This is pretty much it. Brandon being a husk really meant that what "normally" (and btw, would have still been horrible ethnic cleansing and barbarism) would have ended after a month or two of slaughter (e.g. Reagan) instead became a 2 year genocide. The degree to which "liberal" institutions in the US have de legitimized themselves over this is almost comical, and I think under the truth serum no US politician or figure of note (barring total freaks) would say that what's happened has been in the US' interests.

Indeed, the degree to which public speech has been made to "fit" the Israeli policy of genocide means that a lot of American institutions are now at a hinge point where they might be broken and transformed (if you want to be a little about something so horrible), but to what end of course is yet to be determined.

It's still (and always will be) socialism or barbarism.

The declining empire faces two choices - peacefully decline over a long period or violently delay collapse until it is impossible.

What Israel has been doing is violently delaying the collapse of the empire, and they have been successful in the short-term even if the long-term won't be sustainable: Hezbollah was crippled by the pager terror attack, Assad fled Syria and they're in the process of turning it into another basket case like Libya, and Hamas's capacity to strike Israel has been degraded to nothing.

For now, Israel has reasserted its (and the US's) regional dominance. They had to demonstrate that their borders are secure because Israel's borders are also the US's borders, and this is directly connected to why the US is in the process of passifying its own border and deploying its own ethnic cleansing campaign that mirrors Israel. Israel bombing all of its neighbors was actually prelude to the US bombing boats in the Caribbean and preparing for war with Venezuela, and probably the rest of Latin America.

That's why it's useful to think of them as the same entity, Israel's behavior over the last two years is mirrored in the US's own behavior over the past year. The empire is reconfiguring itself in its decline, both heads of the snake are behaving the same.