US "incredibly concerned" about risk of escalation on Israel-Lebanon border: State Department

zdreg said:
95 %+ of aid money buys weapons from American Defense companies, thereby creating well paid manufacturing jobs for Americans. Furthermore, the weapons are then battle tested and info. shared with the US.
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I've heard this dumb argument before. Why don't you then offer the same to European countries? You'd see everyone ordering US weapons immediately worth hundreds of billions. Now if US weapons were really inferior then you'd have a point. It's a net loss for US taxpayers because it's mathematically impossible for it to be anything else, defense company execs love it of course.
 
mikeriley said:
I'm 60 years old, and can still remember watching the News broadcasting
these people at War when I was about 10.

It will never end.
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mikeriley said:
I'm 60 years old, and can still remember watching the News broadcasting
these people at War when I was about 10.

It will never end.
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Why are these people constantly fight again?

Wow this is good information to know.
 
SimpleMeLike said:
Can someone please explain to me why USA sends money to Israel to help fight this war?
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Hard lobbying. It's extremely beneficial for Israel, barely any benefits for US. But I admire Israel being able to manipulate a country with such skill.
 
d08 said:
Hard lobbying. It's extremely beneficial for Israel, barely any benefits for US. But I admire Israel being able to manipulate a country with such skill.
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Good Morning d08,

Why do USA send money to Israel?

Thank you,
 
Used to be said, speak softy and carry a big stick.

Trump turned that on its head, speak loudly and carry a little stick.

Hey he's got little hands after all. Little hands, little uhhh stick.
 
d08 said:
Why don't you then offer the same to European countri
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d08 said:
It's extremely beneficial for Israel, barely any benefits for US
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It is a big plus for the US. arms manufacturers.

95% is spent in the US resulting in job creation and profits for the American industry. The US learns how their weapons' perform under battlefield conditions. Israel accepts the deal in spite of the fact that it hurts Israel's export arms industry. The reason Israel accept it is the quid for quo of American support for Israel on the world political scene
The reason the Europeans are not offered the same deal is that it increases the US budget deficit European arms manufacturers would be up in arms as they loose out in potential sales to a subsidized American defense industry.
 
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zdreg said:
It is a big plus for the US. arms manufacturers.

95% is spent in the US resulting in job creation and profits for the American industry. The US learns how their weapons' perform under battlefield conditions. Israel accepts the deal in spite of the fact that it hurts Israel's export arms industry. The reason Israel accept it is the quid for quo of American support for Israel on the world political scene
The reason the Europeans are not offered the same deal is that it increases the US budget deficit European arms manufacturers would be up in arms as they loose out in potential sales to a subsidized American defense industry.
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1. Completely wrong on Europe. Before the EU accession, countries only received some derelict equipment as aid, countries still had to pay for all modern equipment, unlike Israel which got all modern stuff for free. What EU thought about it was irrelevant. There are still countries in Balkans and Caucasus region (Georgia for example) that get nothing for free from US. Georgia is actually against an enemy (Russia) with modern weapons.

2. Israel is fighting a bunch of dudes with AK47s and primitive handheld RPGs for the most part. In absolutely no way does Palestine have a modern army. So what testing are you talking about?
Maybe you're thinking of Iron Dome, well that's entirely Israeli and doesn't benefit US at all.
 
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