Today, we stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in the US, thanks to a wild group chat leak by Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic Magazine. It finally explains why Israel keeps blasting the Middle East to bits, dropping bombs left and right without a shred of threat big enough to justify the sheer tonnage of explosives it unloads. Even countries begging to stay on Israel’s good side get hit. For years, even the die-hard Middle East news junkies couldn’t crack this nut. Israel’s erratic, nonstop airstrikes across the region—way before October 7, 2023—left them baffled. Lebanon, Iraq, and Syria got hammered with massive ammo drops year after year. Then, after October 7, Israel turned it up to eleven, pounding Gaza and Lebanon into dust while stretching its air raids to Yemen, Iraq, and Iran.
This madness had experts and regular folks asking: Is Israel genuinely scared of some looming attack from these places, or has it just gone full psycho, hooked on death and chaos? No one had a damn clue. The US, Israel’s sugar daddy, wouldn’t spill either—just parroted “Israel has the right to defend itself” every time someone asked. No logic, no explanation, nothing—until now. And who drops the truth bomb? Jeffrey Goldberg, a guy who used to guard a torture-and-death prison camp in Israel, now scribbling for The Atlantic. Makes you stop and think, God’s got a twisted sense of humor.
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On March 24, 2025, Goldberg unleashed secret texts from a hush-hush Signal group chat—yep, that encrypted app—featuring Donald Trump’s whole national security crew plotting war moves on Yemen. The lineup? Heavy hitters like Michael Waltz (national security advisor), Pete Hegseth (Defense Secretary), Tulsi Gabbard (DNI director), and John Ratcliffe (CIA boss). This chat doesn’t just peel back the curtain on how sloppy they are with national security secrets—it also shows Trump and his VP, JD Vance, butting heads on policy.
Goldberg didn’t drop everything at first, holding back some texts he called “too hot” for the public. The national security team owned up to the chat’s existence but swore up and down at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing that no classified stuff leaked—contradicting Goldberg’s nudge-wink hints. Trump and the GOP seized on those denials, brushing it off as a big fat “nothing burger.” But Goldberg and his media posse took it as a challenge. Yesterday morning, March 26, 2025, he said screw it and dumped the whole unedited mess. It’s all up on The Atlantic’s site—go read it. A couple of things hit you right in the face. One: there’s a damn good case for classified info being spilled—think operational nitty-gritty like timing, jets, targets, and even what bombs they’re packing. Then there’s this one text from Joe Kent, Trump’s supposed anti-terrorism coordinator. On its own, it doesn’t look like a national security gut-punch, but Goldberg acted like it was dynamite. Why’d he sit on it? If you don’t know Goldberg’s cozy ties to Israel and its spy game, you might think he just shrugged it off as no biggie. Nope. He held it back because it had Israel’s name all over it.
That text from Joe Kent in the leaked Signal chat? It’s the key to the whole damn mystery—why Israel keeps bombing the Middle East like it’s target practice. The answer? The US pays Israel double for every missile and bomb it drops. You heard that right—Israel only cashes in when it rains hell on kids and cities, so it’s got every reason to keep the carnage flowing. Thousands of heavy bombs smashed Gaza flat. Hundreds of munitions didn’t just take out Hezbollah’s Nasrallah—they turned half of Lebanon into a smoking ruin. Then there’s the savage, no-rules bombing of Yemen’s ports, food stashes, and lifelines late last year. All this insanity had the US sweating bullets over the price tag of Israel’s trigger-happy rampage. It got so bad, they figured it’s cheaper to bomb shit themselves than keep bankrolling Israel’s double-dip payday.
That’s why the US swooped in with preemptive, balls-out airstrikes on Yemen before Israel could—leaving Tel Aviv pissed as hell because Uncle Sam stole its golden goose. The cost of Israel’s war junkie lifestyle was so sky-high that bombing Yemen—the poorest dump in the Middle East—straight from the Pentagon was the budget pick over letting Israel do it and billing double.
So yeah, we owe Jeffrey Goldberg a tip of the hat for spilling this, and Joe Kent for flapping his gums in the chat. What a fucking revelation.
