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Why is the US still sending an endless supply of arms to Israel without conditions? (www.theguardian.com)
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The law ( the Leahy Law) requires that the US vet any foreign military receiving US arms. However, that doesn’t happen with Israel

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[–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

MONEY. This isn't fucking rocket science.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What money? From whom?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It always amazes me how cheap it is to buy politicians, as compared to how much spending they decide on.

    I do think the EU should more heavily invest in bribing USA politicians, especially since it's been legalized. The ROI just seems amazing.

    And I wish that I was being sarcastic, but I'm not. EU pro democracy bribes and dark money pac's could be a counter to authoritarian states their dark money/influence projects, helping out the embattled USA democracy. And when the USA fascists see that their pro democracy opponents are receiving as much/more money from slush funds, then they might be more open to the idea of making all bribery illegal again.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    It's funny when some of this corruption in the US is brought to light, you envision these huge sums of money, secret bank accounts, etc. Then it's just some loser hiding 10k in gold bars under his bed or some shit.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    US taxpayers.

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  • [+] -9 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    ...they already have that money

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's a convenient way to transfer money to arms dealers.

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  • [+] -8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They already have that money

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    How do you work that out?

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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Military aid is money already apportioned.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No it isn't.

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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    No. Senate Republicans block funding bill that included aid for Ukraine and Israel

    But even still, you're just quoting a longstanding mechanism for the transfer of public money to private hands. What do you think that money is?

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    What are you talking about? There aren't even enough munitions for Ukraine.

    Anything we give away is something we could have sold to at least attempt to recoup American taxpayer investment.

    I'm not sure why you people keep peddling the narrative that millions, or even billions of dollars in military equipment is worthless.

    Sorry, that's a lie. It's because you don't understand what's happening in the world around you. Your comments are testaments to that fact.

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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There aren’t even enough munitions for Ukraine.

    I assure you the US can produce enough weapons to kill every man, woman, and child on this planet many times over.

    I’m not sure why you people keep peddling the narrative that millions, or even billions of dollars in military equipment is worthless.

    I don't think it's worthless. I think it's a good use of resources

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I assure you the US can produce enough weapons

    Who pays for the added production? It's like you're arguing the US has more than enough with weapons it was going to replace anyways, then when that's not actually enough you're trying to make it seem like production is free, too.

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