[JumpCrisscross]

> American politicians like to always pitch Israel as "America's Greatest Ally"

In the Middle East. Which is sort of true. (Cairo, Riyadh and Doha aren’t as reliable.)

Our traditional greatest ally is the U.K.

[jjtheblunt]

France and Poland from the revolutionary war, too, perhaps.

[JumpCrisscross]

> France and Poland from the revolutionary war

France is our oldest ally. But it (and Poland) are weaker and have been less reliably at our side than Britain has been.