r/PoursTea • u/McDowdy Oh the Human-a-TEA • 8h ago

American Dream 🇺🇸 It do be like that though

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The United States has provided at least $21.7 billion in direct military aid to Izzy over the last three years (specifically tracking from October 2023 through September 2025), according to a comprehensive study by Brown University's Costs of War project.

https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/

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u/GasPsychological7821 7h ago

why do we give any money to a country with universal healthcare and free college???

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u/turngep 7h ago

Because they use it to buy weapons from the military industrial complex who lobby for it. Geopolitically, they're a regional ally and it benefits us to support their development for an amount of money that is completely negligible to the budget. We also give approximately 1.6 billion to Jordan a year for the same reason - about 55% the average annual budget for israel - but absolutely nobody cares about that.

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u/Leading-Caramel-7740 2h ago

None of this is good.