There’s no denying that Israel spends their military aid on American weapons. Ramaswamy doesn’t want to end the sale of American weapons to Israel. He wants to end welfare to Israel. Welfare is my word not his. Israel is fully capable of buying American weapons with their own money, just like all of Europe is capable of funding NATO. Just like South Korea can pay and fully defend itself. Just like Japan can pay and fully defend itself.
We are broke. Our military is weak. We don’t focus on defending America. Our priorities are all screwed up. When nations can afford their own defense they should pay for it. That doesn’t stop us from being friends.
Ramaswamy has a very consistent foreign policy that is tightly integrated with domestic policy. It’s simple to understand. First, America stops foreign aid to countries that can afford to pay their own way. That’s militarily and otherwise. Then America becomes self sufficient in whatever interest we have in foreign nations when possible. The leading example is Taiwan. Our interest in Taiwan is semiconductor manufacturing. Our foreign policy is simple. We protect our current interest in Taiwan until we are self sufficient in manufacturing semiconductors. Then Taiwan is on its own. We can still be friends. They can unify with China if they want. China can forcibly unify with Taiwan. I really don’t care. We have no interest in Taiwan when we are semiconductor self sufficient. That removes the need to send our sons to war for Taiwan. To be more accurate, it removes the need to have our sons killed, injured and crippled. That to me is more important than money.
The same works with any other interest. The Middle East for oil is another good example. It’s good for America because we focus on our economy first, which makes us stronger. It’s good for America because we can first focus on defense of our homeland. When we are stronger we can actually help our friends. Our friendships won’t be based on coveting some product or resource.
The defense of our homeland should be a priority by the way. We are woefully unprepared. We sent our weapons around the world to foreign nations. Our military is dispersed around the world. What kind of defense do we have at home? Do we have air defense systems around our cities and manufacturing centers? Nope. Here’s a thought exercise for those supporting Ukraine where we have no national interest. If Biden sends our troops into battle against Russia, what does Russia do? What do we do?
I don’t know about our woke generals, but if I was running things I would not contain the battlefield to Ukraine. I would be cutting Russian supply lines in Russia. Guess what. Russia will be doing the same thing here in America. And we are not nearly ready to defend ourselves. You can play the same thought experiment a conflict with China.
We have idiots running our country. They have made America economically weak. They have made America militarily weak. And yes, we have lost every war in the past 22 years.
As to Israel is fully capable of buying American weapons with their own money, Israel wouldn't need to buy much of what they purchase from the US, they could produce them. And could export arms without US permission. It's a symbiotic relationship not common with most countries to whom we provide aid.
BTW eliminating all foreign aid, whether good or bad, wouldn't make a dent in our financial problems, current or future. Six or seven percent of our defense budget, which isn't enough. And that's not where the funds would go anyway.
Truthfully our Armed forces & our armed forces command suck. Military families are telling their loved ones to stay the heck away. Obama & Biden hollowed out the military by separating the honorable officers and promoting the culturally debauched.
America is in no position to outsmart the rogue Nations that want to destroy us. People that think we can do it alone with our woke military have not been keeping up. Israel’s intelligence and intervention has never been more essential.
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I agree with a majority of your points. But then, as a naturalized citizen who began first grade in New York City’s public school system in 1957, where they still taught patriotism and began each day reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, I’m America First by nature.