The United States has spent a record of at least $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel since the war in Gaza began and led to escalating conflict around the Middle East.

Unlike the United States’ publicly documented military aid to Ukraine, it was impossible to get the full details of what the U.S. has shipped Israel since last Oct. 7, so the $17.9 billion for the year is a partial figure, the researchers said.

They cited Biden administration “efforts to hide the full amounts of aid and types of systems through bureaucratic maneuvering.”

    • redeyejedi@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      I too want Univeraal Healthcare to be a thing in the U.S. That being said one thing that I think people don’t fully understand about this is that we are sending them Military Equipment that we already spent money on. We aren’t just sending them that in cash.

      We should definitely have a conversation around how much we spend on the MilItaly Indusrial Complex in America and the better ways we could spend that money to help our own citizens.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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          11 days ago

          A much better argument is one of labor and resource allocation. A country has only so much productive capacity, and people being employed by the military industry are not doing socially useful work.

          • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            11 days ago

            Yes. If everyone’s labor is allocated to killing people, that leaves no labor leftt to cure people.