Debunking the prevailing myth: Who Really Controls US Foreign Policy & What They Gain

Brian Berletic

Who Really Controls US Foreign Policy & What They Gain By Convincing You Otherwise...

The New Atlas

The video transcript critically examines the widely propagated narrative that Israel controls the United States, a claim frequently amplified by mainstream media and social media platforms, asserting it to be both misleading and irrational. The speaker urges viewers to zoom out and understand the broader context of US foreign policy, which employs multiple proxies globally—not just Israel—to project power and wage wars. These proxies include Ukraine against Russia, Taiwan and other Asia-Pacific nations against China, and Israel against Iran, all supported by US weapons and political backing. The narrative that Israel or the Jewish lobby (such as AIPAC) controls the US is debunked by pointing out that AIPAC comprises less than 1% of all US lobbying, overshadowed by corporate lobbying and influence.

Furthermore, claims that Jews control US corporations are shown to be baseless after analyzing corporate leadership demographics, which reveal a predominance of non-Jewish Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, Romance, and Germanic heritage individuals. The speaker highlights that corporations, funded daily by American consumers, are the true drivers of US foreign and domestic policies, supported by powerful financial interests that suppress multipolarity in favor of a Western-dominated unipolar world. Israel is characterized as an American-created proxy state with a small population and economy, physically incapable of controlling the US, serving instead as a tool wielded by US imperial interests.

The transcript clarifies that blaming Israel or Jews acts as a distraction from confronting the systemic and historical aggression rooted in Western empires, particularly the Anglo-American axis. The speaker urges people to recognize the actual power structures—the corporate and financial elites—whose profits and interests fuel wars and imperialism globally. The video critiques the logic fallacies and emotional biases behind accusations against Israel and Jewish people, stressing the need for evidence and broader perspective rather than simplistic scapegoating. Concluding, the speaker invites viewers to support alternative media and multipolar worldviews to challenge the entrenched imperialist narratives and power.

Highlights

• [01:00] 🔍 US foreign policy uses Israel as one of many proxies worldwide, not just Israel alone.
• [04:40] 💰 AIPAC’s lobbying constitutes less than 1% of total US lobbying, overshadowed by corporate power.
• [10:00] 🌍 Israel’s economic footprint is smaller than the top five US corporations combined.
• [14:00] 🏛️ US empire built on Anglo-American capitalist and imperialist history, predating Israel’s creation.
• [23:30] 📊 Corporate monopolies like Walmart, Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft dominate US influence.
• [30:30] 📜 US policy papers explicitly plan to use Israel as a proxy for military strikes on Iran with US backing.
• [38:00] 🔄 The Israel-controls-US narrative serves as a deliberate mainstream media distraction from real systemic issues.

Key Insights

• [01:45] 🔎 Proxy Warfare and Global Strategy: The US fights multiple proxy wars simultaneously—Israel versus Iran, Ukraine versus Russia, Taiwan and others against China—demonstrating a comprehensive strategy to maintain global dominance through regional proxies rather than direct unilateral control by any single proxy like Israel. This emphasizes the complexity of US imperial strategy beyond simplistic narratives.
• [05:00] 📉 Lobbying and Influence Misconceptions: The claim that Israeli or Jewish lobbying dominates US politics is disproven by data showing AIPAC’s lobbying is less than 1% of all lobbying. This challenges popular conspiracy theories lacking factual grounding, emphasizing the disproportionate role of corporate lobbying, which vastly overshadows any ethnic, religious, or foreign lobbying group's influence.
• [08:30] 🏢 Corporate Power as the True Driver: US corporations that Americans support daily financially underpin US policy decisions. Corporations like Walmart, Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft have an economic footprint larger than Israel’s entire GDP and population combined, illustrating the scale of corporate influence as a root cause behind US actions. This shifting focus refutes ethnic or single-nation scapegoating and highlights systemic economic power.
• [10:30] 🌐 Israel’s Proxy Status and Scale Limitations: Smaller than the US state of New Jersey in size and population, Israel cannot realistically control the immensely larger US. Instead, it functions as a disposable proxy state operating under US imperial directives, especially in Middle Eastern conflicts. This insight debunks hyperbolic claims of Israeli domination and reframes Israel’s role within US empire-building.
• [14:20] 📜 Historical Continuity of Western Empire Building: The US is described as an evolution of the British Empire, continuing practices such as land theft, indigenous genocides, and overseas imperialism long before Israel existed. This historical context situates US imperialism as a longstanding and systemic issue rather than a phenomenon that suddenly arose due to Israel or Jewish influence.
• [30:00] 🔫 Documented US Policies on Using Israel as a Military Proxy: The Brookings Institution policy paper from 2009 explicitly outlines encouraging Israeli military strikes on Iran while deflecting blowback onto Israel. This candid articulation of US strategy confirms Israel’s role as a proxy rather than independent actor and highlights deliberate US policy design in war-making and information control.
• [26:30] 🤔 Fallacy of Ethnic Conspiracy Theories: Attempts to link corporate and political power to a Jewish conspiracy fail when carefully analyzed since Jewish representation among CEOs and board members of dominant corporations is a tiny minority. The video warns against simplistic ethnic scapegoating, which distracts from the real sources of power: Western corporate-financier elites, predominantly Anglo-American and nominally Christian.

This nuanced analysis calls for moving past emotional, race- or religion-based conspiracies to more accurately understand the mechanisms that drive US policy, war, and empire today.

Detailed Analysis

The video transcript undertakes a thorough deconstruction of the narrative that Israel controls the US, often propagated by mainstream and social media algorithms. The speaker frames this narrative as a deliberate distraction from the broader, more systemic reality of US imperialism. Instead of singling out Israel or Jewish lobbying groups like AIPAC as controlling the US, the speaker shows that the US runs a multi-regional proxy strategy, supporting different client states and organizations to counterbalance rival powers like Russia, China, and Iran.

This expanded perspective contextualizes Israel not as a puppeteer but as one of many US proxies used in a global contest for hegemony. It also reveals the commonality in approach with US support for Ukraine or Taiwan: fortifying local actors to proxy wars drawn along geopolitical fault lines. Each of these proxies has varying degrees of lobbying representation in Washington, but no proxy can be said to control US policy on its own.

The speaker’s analysis of lobbying expenditures is critical, quantitatively disproving AIPAC’s influence as less than 1% of total lobbying spending, far eclipsed by massive corporate lobbying. This calls attention to the real levers of power in Washington—the corporate-financier complex. It is these entities, supported by millions of American consumers’ purchasing power, that are positioned at the heart of US policy-making. The speaker enumerates corporations like Walmart, Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and various financial giants, showing their vast economic footprint exceeding that of Israel.

The statistical scrutiny of corporate leadership further contradicts common antisemitic tropes claiming Jewish domination of corporate America. Most leadership have Western European ancestry and Christian nominal identities. This insight stems from a data-driven approach, using easily verifiable public information such as CEO names and board membership registries. While some Jewish presence is acknowledged, it represents a minority far below what conspiracy narratives claim and does not translate to monolithic control or a secret cabal.

Historically, the address situates US imperialism as a continuation of British colonial domination. The US inherited and expanded the empire-building project through practices of settler colonialism, indigenous genocide, overseas colonization (e.g., Hawaii, the Philippines), and global military interventions. Israel, created out of Western imperial design after WWII, serves as an appendage or extension of this empire, rather than an independent controlling force.

US strategic documents like the 2009 Brookings Institution report expose explicit US policy to use Israel militarily against Iran while deflecting consequences away from the US. This admission reveals the cynical realpolitik behind public illusions and the misinformation campaigns that portray Israel as the puppet master. Instead, Israel functions as a sacrificial proxy accommodating US geopolitical warfare with plausible deniability.

The video also condemns the emotional and often racist reasons behind fixing blame on Jews or Israel—the need of certain groups to externalize their own society’s corruption onto a scapegoat. It frames the real powerholders as predominantly white, nominally Christian Western elites who have historically and presently maintained global dominance through ruthless economic and military power.

Finally, the speaker calls for a mature reassessment of US imperialism and its drivers, urging viewers to move past illusionary conspiracy theories. The real challenge lies in confronting monopolistic corporations, their financiers, and the unipolar global order they uphold. Understanding this dynamic is essential for meaningful political action and for resisting multi-decade cycles of war and exploitation masked by distraction and denial.

Conclusion

The enduring myth that Israel controls the US is a narrative designed to obscure the deeper reality of Western corporatocratic and imperial power. By shifting focus from ethnic scapegoating and conspiratorial thinking to analyzing global proxy wars, lobbying percentages, empirical corporate leadership data, and historical imperial continuity, the video offers a comprehensive framework for understanding US foreign and domestic policy. It calls on viewers to question emotional biases and media narratives while encouraging engagement with multipolar alternatives and the dismantling of corporate-driven warfare and empire.