Read that again. The Sky News reporter only asks the Israeli politician about Israeli troops specifically after she asks him first whether there will be a need for ground troops. There are only two countries at war with Iran right now. That means she was asking an Israeli politician if American troops would be deployed, and his response was that he wouldn’t rule it out.

Having a foreign country’s politician commenting on whether or not he will have you and your countrymen sent to fight a foreign war is surreal and might only seem normal to someone who lived in an imperial colony in a bygone era. What makes it particularly bizarre here is that it’s the superpower in this situation, the United States, that is being treated as the colony.