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To: Zhang Fei
Israel is a friendly country, and an occasionally balky ally, but no more so than other countries towards which we have contributed much more

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https://www.cfr.org/article/us-aid-israel-four-charts

Israel has long been the leading recipient of U.S. foreign aid, including military assistance.

At the fourth paragraph there is a chart. From 1946-2024, we gave Israel $308 billion in economic and military aid. No other country is close.

The United States provided Israel considerable economic assistance from 1971 to 2007, but nearly all U.S. aid today goes to support Israel’s military, the most advanced in the region. The United States has provisionally agreed via a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to provide Israel with $3.8 billion per year through 2028.
Then there's QME (Qualitative Military Edge)

QME has been a conceptual backbone of U.S. military aid to Israel for decades, and it was formally enshrined in U.S. law in 2008..

Under the 2008 law, the United States must ensure that any weapons it provides to other countries in the Middle East do not compromise Israel’s QME.

116 posted on 06/20/2025 5:54:38 PM PDT by yelostar (AI will be the scapegoat when the SHTF. )
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To: yelostar

[At the fourth paragraph there is a chart. From 1946-2024, we gave Israel $308 billion in economic and military aid. No other country is close.]


Not even close to true. The US donated 38K dead GIs to South Korea and a much bigger chunk of cash. It donated 58K GIs to Sout Vietnam and, again, a bigger amount of money. Then there were the Afghan and Iraqi governments, each soaking up $1T and thousands of dead GIs. That’s not taking into account France and the UK, on whose account the US lost 400K GIs and the equivalent of $40T fighting their wars.

Even a longtime rival and enemy that once contested California, the Russians, took in 11% of 1941 GDP, half of a good chunk of their supplies, 14K aircraft and 13K tanks. And this was a war Russia started in alliance with Germany, where it switched sides only after Germany invaded it. Israel has gotten a tiny fraction of US aid to Russia, an enemy bent on America’s destruction, that returned the favor by not only supplying North Korea and North Vietnam, but by actively being involved in combat against US troops in Korea and Vietnam.

https://www.rferl.org/a/did-us-lend-lease-aid-tip-the-balance-in-soviet-fight-against-nazi-germany/30599486.html

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/seventy-years-ago-soviet-mig-15s-attacked-american-pilots-180977440/

https://www.rbth.com/history/332396-how-soviets-fought-against-americans


117 posted on 06/20/2025 7:32:31 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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