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Israel probably blew the better part of a half billion dollars in anti ballistic missiles alone, much less jp5, bombs, etc. in in the last two weeks.
And that's not even getting into airframe hours, which has a high cost, especially for some of the older air frames.
Besides that, nato is about the north Atlantic (but I guess nobody remembers that part), why should Israel even be related to this conversation? Europe is freaking out about Russia, and then didn't want to pay for their own defense (even as they buy Russian natural gas, which is hilarious).
https://www.statista.com/statistics/810433/ratio-of-military-expenditure-to-gross-domestic-product-gdp-israel/
Also, fun fact, Israel spends more than 5% yearly on defense. This is their budget, mind you, and doesn't include any foreign aid money/supplies.
Glad you demonstrated with facts and logic we don't need to keep sending them money
I don't have an issue with that. We spend way too much on foreign aid when we have both problems at home that could be solved with additional funds and a budget problem we could use the money for.
How much of that half billion came from the pockets of American taxpayers?
You can dig for it, but Israel buys a lot of hardware from us, I'm sure we also hand some out.
The anti ballistic missiles are mostly their manufacturing though, they have domestic lines. Our thaad missiles might be getting paid for, I'm unsure and don't have a clear source either way.
You mean "profited the American Military–industrial complex" right?
Riiight? Because that's where all the money eventually ends up.
They (leftists who back the M-IC) hate Israel because Israel develops it's own weapons systems, in direct competition. Can't have that!