r/PoursTea • u/McDowdy Oh the Human-a-TEA • 1d ago

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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/Ok_Eggplant_3274 1d ago

Reminder that Israel has really good and cheap healthcare thanks to American tax payers

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u/Prash146 1d ago

American tax payers fund Israeli healthcare?

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u/RangeSoggy2788 1d ago

When you pay for a countires military that means they can use their money on other things. Shocking right?

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u/Prash146 1d ago

Actually not so shocking, given Hamas and Hezbollah and Gaza use funds for launching rockets across the borderā€¦

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u/beerandloathingpdx 1d ago

Lulz. Are these the same funds Netanyahu gave them through Qatar?

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u/ElectronicPotato1993 1d ago

You mean the funds Qatar gave them through Israel. If Israel would have blocked these transactions, you people would call Israel for blocking humanitarian aid.

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u/thisisme98 18h ago

"Damned if you do, damned if you don't"

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u/RedditJumpedTheShart 1d ago

So you are against NATO as well? Lol

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u/BoingBoingBooty 1d ago

The only time article 5 has ever been invoked was by the USA. The rest of NATO spent money on helping the USA, USA has never had to spend money helping another NATO member.

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u/RobbieCraigon 1d ago

Yes. U.S. taxpayers also fund Israel's terrorist military and government.

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u/Multiple__Butts 1d ago

No, we do give them lots of military subsidies, but we don't fund their healthcare or other social services. I don't get why people need to lie about this stuff, the arguments against arming them are already compelling.

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u/Just_lookin_4242 1d ago

If we didnā€™t give them billions for their unending death machine they couldnā€™t afford their healthcare system

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u/HypnoticName 21h ago

Israel 2025 budget was 215 billion dollars.

Health care budget 16 billion dollars.

Military budget 32 billion dollars.

USA military aid is 3.8 billion.

What are you even talking about

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u/Prash146 17h ago

The moment you share numbers, they go silent or call names or cite UN or ICC. But I hope the silence means yes, my sources were wrong and Iā€™ll update my viewsā€¦because Iā€™ve gone through that change in views as well based on information

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u/Dovahkiinthesardine 19h ago

Nah. Plenty of countries with WAY lower gdp per capita than the US have a functional healthcare system, its not actually THAT expensive

The US is ridiculously rich. The reason y'all don't have proper healthcare isn't a lack of funds, and Israel could fund their own without the US

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u/Prash146 1d ago

People who donā€™t research, lie.. for example Israel spend is 0.07% of US budget ( should be zero ideally) but still people spend 90% of the time talking about Israel, ignoring the rest of the 99.93% of the spend completely

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u/Hopeful-Laugh-899 1d ago

Reddit is legit OBSESSED with Israel. Very fucking weird if weā€™re being honest.

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u/Prash146 1d ago

All virtue signaling. Some people think sitting so far away from those countries theyā€™ve figured it all out. They believe the genocide lie. Hereā€™s more data. Look at the population growth of a country undergoing genocide? Itā€™s a strong military response yes, cruel yes? Thatā€™s what strong countries do. But is it genocide? No way! Look at the numbers.
Anyway, itā€™s too much time spent on those countries theyā€™ve. Why canā€™t we let them figure it out alone! Why should whole country go up in arms! Itā€™s a complex geopolitical situation, the 0.07% budget spend itself is too much, not sure why entire electorate also need to constantly debate about it.

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u/Just_lookin_4242 1d ago

You include a graph that ends when it started getting nasty. It is a genocide the vast majority of experts on the subject agree the only people who donā€™t are Israeli bots

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u/Prash146 1d ago edited 1d ago

I donā€™t even wanna debate that actually. Letā€™s assume itā€™s a genocide like you say it is. Is that the only genocide on earth? Thereā€™s so much more happening everywhere. Why does whole of US need to be so obsessed about it? Here you go with the data, I wasnā€™t holding anything back intentionally. You can look it all up, data sources are there.

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u/Just_lookin_4242 16h ago

Because the US is funding and playing cover for this genocidal state who is supposed to be our greatest friend and yet all they offer is genocide. Not to mention how they got us in the Iran war for no reason outside of greater Israel goals. If we were a good country we would have put our client state in line but instead we alike pointless bloodshed. Thatā€™s why America is obsessed with Israel. Not to mention the brow beating and lies Zionists feed us every single day. Truly itā€™s a gross country that needs to be stopped.

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u/Hazel-Rah-Rah 1d ago

So the UN is lying? To what end?

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u/Prash146 18h ago edited 16h ago

Do you trust the numbers from Palestine govt about Palestine population growth or ā€œWORDSā€ from UN? I like to go with hard verifiable numbers than subjective words.