I am not anti-Israel.
I am anti-foreign aid or military assistance or whatever its called... to ALL countries.
Surely it’s unconstitutional,.
Agree. End foreign aid, but if were doing it, Israel should get a lot.
“I am anti-foreign aid or military assistance or whatever its called... to ALL countries.
Surely it’s unconstitutional,.”
I spent 33 years in the military industrial complex, building weapons. Many of those weapons, though “sold” to the US, were actually designated for foreign militaries. I have pretty good insight into FMS (Foreign Military Sales) and they are not what they seem.
At the end of WWII the US bribed up an alliance to fight a cold war against the Soviets. This was hugely successful, in that all of the conflicts resulting in shooting were amongst relatively weak proxies and caused no damage to overall humanity. As a result of this policy the last seventy years have seen the greatest flowering of civilization in terms of population and industry than in all previous history. Part of this alliance was that the US would patrol the global oceans so that everyone could use them for profit. To demonstrate US conviction to this policy, not once in the Viet Nam war did the US interdict Vietnamese commerce to other nations. Yes, it sounds silly, I know, but it also means the US never intended to threaten the Soviets of the Chinese by actually winning the war. The objective was to fight, but by Marquis of Queensbury rules.
In order to fight on a global scale at any moment, we must have an arms industry that runs 24/7. Since the US could not absorb that amount of arms, we give/sell them to our allies. The arms industry runs separate from the rest of the economy. It’s not like phones, were millions of users keep the production lines running. If the US stops buying, for us or others, then the lines producing them go down and starting them up again can take years. Also, even with everything running and working, it still takes ten years from concept to fielding any new weapon. Imagine what it would take if you had to start up an entire industry from scratch.
This is just a quick blush at why FMS is here and why it’s a necessary evil. Believe me, there’s enough in the FMS story to fill a set of encyclopedias. But, in short, it’s here because we need it. If it wasn’t here, then the US would have a limited lifespan as a nation.
“I am anti-foreign aid or military assistance or whatever its called... to ALL countries.”
The rationale behind foreign military aid is that our big adversaries will otherwise take over our smaller friends and America will be left in a weaker position in the world.
There are also the hidden reasons that are making some people rich.