I thought her enforcing a firm distinction between the US as a country and the US empire particularly good:

...the loose international alliance of plutocrats and unelected empire managers whose wealth and power are premised on the world order of continuous violence, exploitation and extraction which the campaign of global domination upholds. This campaign of global domination and its manifestations as a whole may be referred to as the US empire, which has very little in common with the US as an individual nation.

- I think there's where we see the clarity...that you don't have to be a yank to be part of the US empire...that it's not a question of the tail wagging the dog or the dog the tail in the Israel US relationship but that wealthy Jews and Zionists are co-opted as integral parts of the US empire, alongside of course the entire branch management layers: the political class in the UK, Canada, Australia, EU,Japan...etc.

National Politics is merely a veneer which provides the maliable human machinery required to enforce the will of this trans-national beast.