Controlled opposition. People should really learn to identify this stuff. Even the Facebook Papers was controlled opposition, and Pegasus simply managed to highlight USA’s funding of cyberwar capabilities of their vassal state Israel. USA is looking bad publicly, so they will cull one of their sheeps NSO Group. Cellebrite, Candiru and others are still very active.
vassal state Israel
I’m not saying you’re wrong suggesting USA and Israel (and France and some others) work hand-in-hand, but Israel is not exactly a vassal state. It’s got political autonomy, a strong military industrial complex of its own, and of course its own colonies.
Maybe you have a point if we were to get all nerdy. Idk really, to me Israel looks like a vassal state considering how you see USA’s control over Middle East plays out. Israel and Saudi Arabia have a very similar kind of relationship with USA, just differing in terms of mutual cyberwar and oil trade benefits respectively. Both also misuse their military, both of which also work closely with USA.
We can find nuances all day, but we do have a rough estimate of how they work, and in all it is really horrible for the world.