It's one thing to help pay for an experimental anti missile system that you will also use, it's one thing to even lease land for your own military base and help cover the cost of joint exercises or pay for facilities you use.
It's another thing to just outright fund a foreign country's military regardless of how close an ally we are. It's retarded when we do it with Ukraine and it's retarded when we do it with Israel.
The only thing I could say would be a good idea is if we gave the Israelis loans. Not aid. Israel is one of the few governments that is actually quiet fiscally and monetarily sound. If we gave Israel loans for things, at least we could make some money off of it.
Yes. The aid is a giant waste of American money that profits politicians and weapons manufacturers. Removing American aid just makes Israel have less free defense spending.
In fact, regular international aid impoverishes countries.
In all reality, Israel would probably benefit more by cutting foreign aid.
It's one thing to help pay for an experimental anti missile system that you will also use, it's one thing to even lease land for your own military base and help cover the cost of joint exercises or pay for facilities you use.
It's another thing to just outright fund a foreign country's military regardless of how close an ally we are. It's retarded when we do it with Ukraine and it's retarded when we do it with Israel.
The only thing I could say would be a good idea is if we gave the Israelis loans. Not aid. Israel is one of the few governments that is actually quiet fiscally and monetarily sound. If we gave Israel loans for things, at least we could make some money off of it.
I wouldn't be surprised, but I'm actually talking about loans that they actually have to pay and shit.
Would they still be without all the aid?
Yes. The aid is a giant waste of American money that profits politicians and weapons manufacturers. Removing American aid just makes Israel have less free defense spending.
In fact, regular international aid impoverishes countries.
In all reality, Israel would probably benefit more by cutting foreign aid.
It's actually had significantly less inflation that we have in the US, and the US's inflation isn't nearly as bad as Europe.
Basically, it's doing about as well as you could hope for, with a Keynsian economic policy, while also being not directly tied to the Petro-Dollar.