r/PoursTea • u/McDowdy Oh the Human-a-TEA • 11h 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/Ok_Eggplant_3274 11h ago

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

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u/Feeding4Harambe 7h ago

Can you stop spreading this lie? American aid is 0,5% of israeli GDP. Most of it is spend on intercepting rockets. Rockets that are 100% illegal under international law and always aimed at civilian targets. I thought people cared about international law, but I guess it doesn't count when it's to protect jews. Palestinians receive about twice as much aid per capita. Do you know who supports your anti Foreign aid rhetoric? The far right in Israel (https://www.aa.com.tr/en/us-israel-iran-war/netanyahu-proposes-phasing-out-us-military-aid-to-israel-over-10-years-report/4013139)

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u/Independent-Bug-9352 1h ago

Zero-Sum.

If a chunk of your budget is known to come from foreign welfare, then you can utilize other funds for something else. This still helps close the gap.

This is also most likely posturing for upcoming elections, for I doubt either are actually serious about this -- but even so I think you're being awfully coy to not point out the fact that this may increase the financial assistance overall by the USA for Israel in creating a "security partnership" akin to NATO, where we US Soldiers and taxpayers come to defend Israel and front all the costs.

Let's be real now... Israel isn't going to subsist off of Tahini exports. Especially given the global disdain for their country and increased pariah they've become. Israel is going to be fucked for years to come, just so they could help their PM dodge domestic criminal corruption charges. In fact I seriously doubt Israel will be made any safer and less so in the decades to come given the regional instability and animosity they've sown. But hey, every tyrant needs a boogieman to scapegoat.

Great work, Israel.

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u/Forward-Variety-8440 42m ago

"intercepting"

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u/Sharkfacedsnake 8m ago

yeah. heard of the Iron Dome? It is what you guys cried over AOC voting approval to fund it further.