Posted on 05/10/2024 4:22:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
And these are nations with 50+ million people, in Germany's case 80+ million. These are bigger industrial economies (where the industrial revolution started), high tech nations.
Thinking Israel can develop and build their own modern fighters, missile systems, guided bombs, command and control systems, missile defense systems, from the ground up, is a far-far stretch. Even the stuff that is “Israeli” and everyone associates with them, usually is packed with US defense contractors (Raytheon, LM, Boeing, General Dynamics, Northrup Grumman) working with them, or US sourced components, i.e. Arrow missile, Iron Dome, Trophy self defense system... Example: https://www.northropgrumman.com/what-we-do/advanced-technology-and-innovation/the-brains-behind-military-electronics-custom-asic-chips
For Israel, there is no way around it, they will be dependent on foreign sourced military hardware.
However, what lesson should be learned from this is that they need to ensure to manage risk by sourcing some military hardware from Russia and China. Most EU nations are basically going to be the same problem as being solely dependent on us and that poses a risk today.
Historically, since the US and Israel pretty much lined up in interests 100%, and it was unimaginable that we abandon them, being solely dependent on us made sense.
However, what has happened under the Biden administration speaks for itself. It's what the topic of this thread is about!
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