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US spends a record $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel since last Oct. 7 (apnews.com)

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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."

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

we are sending them Military Equipment that we already spent money on

Oh cool, sunk-cost genocide 😐

“Military vs healthcare” is a red herring, because “how are you going to pay for it” is a red herring. We can have one or the other, or both, or neither.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

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