It's not either/or. We can refuse aid all foreign nations. America First.
AND they buy arms from us, allowing our companies to make money.
So "our" arms manufacturers make money like Big Pharma -- through the U.S. government funneling money from taxpayers to "our" companies. And that's a good thing?
But even that's incorrect. Actually, every foreign country that receives U.S. military aid has to spend it all on U.S. companies -- with the sole exception of Israel.
Israel's lobby is so powerful, it got an exemption so they could spend some U.S. foreign aid money on building up their own arms manufacturers.
The USA gets multiple things for the military aid it gives Israel:
1. A massive beachhead, forward supply base, and (effectively) unsinkable aircraft carrier in a critical area.
2. The arguably fourth most powerful world military that does its dirty work.
3. Testing and evaluation of equipment in the real world.
4. A human spy network in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and former Soviet Union, which the USA completely lacks due to sheer incompetence of your spy agencies in the human intelligence world.
5. And most importantly to your military industrial complex, the military aid comes with the string that Israel not develop certain weapon systems. The main proponents of aid are industries and Congressmen who are worried Israel would make something that makes the F35 or 22 look obsolete for a fraction of the cost. Raytheon did its absolute best to crush Iron Dome. We entered the drone space instead of manned aircraft simply because your M/I Complex didn’t think it was important at the time.
6. It’s far less than expended on Japanese and Korean security by the USA, all without putting your young men’s lives in danger (unlike there).
It’s also the exact same amount of money as given to Arab nations.
And now less than your taxpayers have burned up in Ukraine, in just a couple of years.
I get the concern with wasting taxpayer money, especially with a massive invasion occurring on your southern border. I could see stopping it all. But select outrage as to Israel is nonsense.