“I don’t having problems giving money to a democracy (Israel), but it sure burns me when we dole out cash to dictatorships and despots.”
This money is called “FMS” for foreign military sales. None of it, regardless of who gets it, is a “gift.” They must spend it over here. FMS is another word for corporate welfare. (Full disclosure: I’ve worked in the military industrial complex for 33 years. I’m grateful to all the taxpayers who, upon occasion, have paid my salary as I whipped up weapons for foreign countries.)
Still okay with it. Don’t like selling, giving, loaning to foreign nations that end up being our enemies.