The candidate’s stance on the military aid—$3 billion a year, which Israel is largely required to spend on U.S.-manufactured equipment—has changed several times over the past few months. This week, he told the Washington Free Beacon that he supports ending the military funding once the current package passed by Congress expires in 2028, arguing that the aid will be unnecessary after he successfully negotiates new peace treaties between Israel and its Arab neighbors during the first year of his presidency.

“If we’re successful, the true mark of success for the U.S., and for Israel, will be to get to a 2028 where Israel is so strongly standing on its own two feet, integrated into the economic and security infrastructure of the rest of the Middle East, that it will not require and be dependent on that same level of historical aid or commitment from the U.S.,” Ramaswamy told the Free Beacon on Saturday.

Ramaswamy describes his Middle East plan as “Abraham Accords 2.0,” an expansion of the historic Trump-era deals cementing relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco.

[I’d prefer to keep supporting Israel against Iran, but … YMMV, I guess. Israel’s security issues will not disappear by 2028, if ever. Combine this with “I’ll cut off Taiwan after we get semiconductor independence,” and it adds up to an unserious person. — Ed]