I don't think that's a controversial take. The US is of course the ultimate reason that Israel can exist in the way it does, and Israel is a colonial outpost of the US, but that doesn't mean it's not a symbiotic relationship. They both affect each other. The resulting direction is a mix of both political forces, sometimes in unison, sometimes in tension, but charting a path together.
It's a big fucked up loop, or maybe an intertwined tree, than a mono-directional leash.
Chapo was a much larger sub, and getting bigger all the time. It was big enough that it was the spectre haunting Reddit, so with that came enough infamy for the admins to ban it.