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In reply to the discussion: We can't have healthcare for all yet we'll give $40 billion to Israel [View all]Ford_Prefect
(7,927 posts)region, if the wars would have to stop or slow down due to cash flow considerations. Suppose we stopped selling them all the tools and spent the money on our infrastructure, education and health care.
It would certainly put a hole in the money laundering done by the MIC = Citizen Taxes to Congress, to state department, to arms deals in the MIC, to congressional campaigns for those who sit on the committees and approve the military foreign aid and the subsequent deals for Israel or Egypt or whoever to buy new expensive weapons and systems, with corporate profits carefully herded offshore to avoid taxes on them.
We don't need more new weapons in the region, and in Israel particularly because as soon as they have the new ones they sell the old ones downstream to keep all the African and Asian players in the game, just like their neighbors do.