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Every country that has ever had battleships has not been broke so it logically follows that if we spend money we don't actually have on battleships we will have a good economy.
Not for Israel
The bill passed in the House on Wednesday by a margin of 216 to 212, largely adhering to party lines, with the exception of six Democrats who voted in favour and seven Republicans who opposed it.
Controlled opposition doing it's thing as always.
Came here to show this one, it's insane to me how they shoot their own gd foot
it's intentional. At this point I'm certain behind closed doors the democratic wing of congress has a revolving door of patsies to purposely tank or pass legislation that their stakeholders/donors/owners/blackmailers demand on, that way they as a party can throw their hands up and act like they are on "our" side.
I agree, they are controlled opposition
So they just keep putting this in different bills trying to get it passed? The senate already rejected a bill with this in it
That is how it works
We can’t take care of daycare.
Sorry we have to be realistic and clearheaded about this, we can't afford to take care of kids so their parents can earn money, it is too costly!
We have to spend the money on bombs instead!
Unfortunately, the U.S. is not the only country that expands its business ties with Israel. China has been increasing its ties with Israel in the recent decade, too. In the meantime, Israel imports from China are even more than twice the volume imports from the U.S.
Yeah but trading with a country is different from using it as a geostrategic asset. The Anglosphere has used Israel as a wedge in the Middle East to ensure that it can not be stable, which they figure would be a catastrophe. (A stable Middle East would control a huge portion of the world's trade, plus a huge portion of vital resources.)
It's possible that China will just inherit this strategy from the United States if it becomes the preeminent superpower, just like the United States inherited it from Great Britain. But it's possible that the Chinese will think differently, plus two things will be geopolitically different in the coming decades: the Arctic sea is opening up and oil is becoming much less important than it has been.
China has always been pursing its own policy also in the Middle East. A major point here is exactly to use Israel as a'geostrategic asset' if you want to put it that way. The Chinese government prefers to deal with and supports autocratic regimes, negates the rule of law, as it can then better undermine the country.
In Israel, the Chinese Communist Party has been supporting exactly for what its propaganda is accusing the only the West: the genocide in the West Bank and in Gaza. It's a dehumanizing and disturbing symbiosis that a Chinese firm linked to repression of Uyghurs aids Israeli surveillance in West Bank,
Cameras made by Hikvision ... blanket the occupied West Bank, according to Amnesty International ... Based in Hangzhou, China, the company is one of the world’s largest makers of video surveillance equipment. Already infamous among international human rights groups, it has been blacklisted by the US and identified by the UK as a security threat for being complicit in China’s repression of the Uyghur ethnic minority ...
The report is newly relevant in the weeks after the 7 October [2023] Hamas attacks that the Israeli government said killed 1,400 people. Since then, settlers have escalated their violence against West Bank Palestinians and the Israeli army has conducted raids in West Bank cities and refugee camps.
Hikvision has marketed facial-recognition features that would, it claimed, automatically detect Uyghur people. It has also advertised features meant to discern any person’s ethnicity, age and race based on an image of their face.
Here is the original report by Amnesty.
This is only one example. There are more similar reports regarding Chinese surveillance tech and other products and services sold to autocratic regimes worldwide to enhance 'business ties' ...
But no money for poor people, kids, healthcare. That'd be COmmUnISm!!! Gotta kill little kids here and in other countries. For Christ.
But this was supposed to be the peace guy. Voting for the other candidate was claimed to lead to endless wars. This guy demanded a Nobel peace prize. Everybody knows. Ask anyone. Hollow. Sad.
These numbers... it's such a small country ... what do they even do with all that money?
(I have some ideas)
edit: seriously though if the USA weren't propping them up like that for more than half a century, very little of their atrocities would've been possible.
Rape terrified little girls for Israel
Pedo shit
This budget is absurd obviously but I am curious how the war in Iran will affect it.
What I mean is could Isreal soon suffer a money bleed like the US because surprise the US is having a hard time fund the war
BUT KAMALA AND THE DEMS WERE IN BED WITH ISRAEL!!!!!
Imagine being stupid enough to have not voted or voted 3rd party when everyone with a functional brain was telling you we'd get Trump and this would be the result.
I mean they are? Make no mistake the breaking up between the Democrats and the Zionists isn't because the Dem establishment grew a conscious, but because of the activism of the folks your likely yelling at.
Why is this relevant to this post?
I voted for Harris, who are you yelling at?