• @Siegfried@lemmy.world
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    51 year ago

    I don’t understand why they need the money… I mean, don’t they have a whole ton of modern military resources already?

    • @LaLiLuLuCo@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      If Israel falls the entire region gets glassed by nukes. They are suspected to have nearly as many as China. They are a world leader in missile tech. They won’t miss.

      It’s called the Samson Plan. Russia has a similar doctrine, as probably does most nuclear powers.

      Defending them via aid which, in the current war, is $1-2 billion dollars in defensive interceptor missiles already, is a good investment.

      Israel is also a giant weapons rnd and live fire experiment for the US military industrial complex. They aren’t giving it up.

      This is the real Politik people miss when discussing Israel and Palestine ignorant of most of the historical context.