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Ukraine is definitely the new gold mine but most countries don’t expect actual state v state war.
They want weapons for use on defenseless civilians because that’s 99% of the likely and intended uses for military applications in the west. American cops are literally trained by IDF units to use their tactics. Our military equipment is directly sold to domestic cops.
The west has no better test bed than Israel for learning militant apartheid strategies
That makes no sense either because Israel is using the most advanced stealth fighter jets to throw the heaviest bunker buster bombs on... stationary targets above ground.
I really don't think that leveling an entire city with bombs has any practical use whatsoever. There is no GPS jamming, no advanced defense systems. Nothing which improves the advanced weaponry in any meaningful way that wouldn't be achieved by simply painting some read targets in a Nevada deserts and checking how accurate the bombs would hit there.
Cops aren't getting F35's. The only valid use which can be argued is that Israel has is their mass surveillance systems and police state which does see actual use in export to the US and Europe.
It really feels like everyone is desperately trying to ignore the fact that Israel has basically all of US congress on their payroll, and the reason the US is giving taxpayer money to Israel is not out of self interest. AIPAC is the elephant in the room here.
Dropping bombs with stealth jets isn’t the vast majority of what they do.
The majority of what they do is with people on the ground in close urban scenarios. They are equivalently armed to us police in almost all these instances.
AIPAC is a vehicle thru which these interests are effected
Israel barely does ground combat in Gaza. 90% of its campaign is bombing hospitals and schools from the sky. When they finally roll up to do some ground combat some dude in flip flops walks up and throws a mine into their tank and they take heavy casualties.
What Israel does in the West Bank is comparable with US police minus the land mines in the West Bank. But Israel is not spending billions in military funding on their West Bank raids.
They are continually engaged in ground operations in Gaza and the West Bank. This is the part that’s most relevant to domestic law enforcement and why so many major departments in America receive direct training from the idf.
This is an article from 2016 talking about cops training with the idf. It’s not made up. Nearly all of their militant acts are useful in some way and they are incentivized by themselves and the west to be a premier partner here
https://www.amnestyusa.org/blog/with-whom-are-many-u-s-police-departments-training-with-a-chronic-human-rights-violator-israel/
For more recent information on the continual training of cops by the idf
https://deadlyexchange.org/deadly-exchange-research-report/