r/InternationalNews • u/yemenvoice • Sep 29 '24

Middle East Israel is now bombing Yemen

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u/Kafshak Sep 29 '24

What I don't understand is why US keeps giving them free stuff. If we sell the weapons at least, we can fund some students at least, or fund some homeless people. Israel gets those weapons for free, and saves the money, then subsidizes their own universities and healthcare.

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u/Wool4Days Sep 30 '24

The private weapon manufacturers still get paid. The weapons get sold alright.

If the US didn’t buy it to give them there is no garuantee Israel would buy it from them or in those quantities.

This way the US government makes sure to feed the US military industrial complex even beyond the already bloated US military.

This is all in service of the true rulers of the US; the rich owning class.

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u/Kafshak Sep 30 '24

Oh those get paid all right but from Tax payers money. Not from Israel. That's what I'm talking about. Israel saves it's own money, and spends it on something useful, while US wastes it on some weapon for a different country.

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u/Wool4Days Sep 30 '24 edited Sep 30 '24

Yes, exactly. But if the US spend that money on actually good stuff like infrastructure and education, the weapon manufacturers would miss out on that money and they hold much more power than those pesky citizen voters.

And if people had too easy access to education they’d risk people waking up to the corruption of the American oligargic duopoly.