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The United States has spent a record of at least $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel since the war in Gaza began and led to escalating conflict around the Middle East, according to a report for Brown University’s Costs of War project, released on the anniversary of Hamas’ attacks on Israel.

An additional $4.86 billion has gone into stepped-up U.S. military operations in the region since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, researchers said in findings first provided to The Associated Press. That includes the costs of a Navy-led campaign to quell strikes on commercial shipping by Yemen’s Houthis, who are carrying them out in solidarity with the fellow Iranian-backed group Hamas.

The report — completed before Israel opened a second front, this one against Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon, in late September — is one of the first tallies of estimated U.S. costs as the Biden administration backs Israel in its conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon and seeks to contain hostilities by Iran-allied armed groups in the region.

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[–] basmatii@lemm.ee 60 points 5 days ago (52 children)

Just a reminder homelessness is at the highest it's been since the great depression, bridges are literally collapsing across the US, we still don't have universal health care despite already paying enough in healthcare taxes to fully cover all US citizens and residents, we still don't have free public college, minimum wage now cannot rent a 1 bedroom apartment anywhere in the country, and credit card debt is the highest it's ever been by any measure.

But Israel somehow comes before all of that because ...

[–] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

But Israel somehow comes before all of that because …

"...profit can only be secured by killing brown people.
"Also, when you let Americans die from poor infrastructure, it just makes some of them work harder in order to provide for their families, so there is no pint changing it."

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

homelessness is at the highest it’s been since the great depression,

Thank Ronald Reagan.

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[–] TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 23 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

18 billion dollars on a country that

  • has a developed arms industry
  • isn't fighting a superior enemy
  • isn't fighting defensively
  • isn't adhering to international law
  • has killed multiple US citizens in cold blood
  • has invaded neighboring countries
  • not to mention the whole genocide thing
  • did I mention it's mainly a genocide of children?

Fuck Israel. I fucking hate nazis and they look an awful lot like nazis to me

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 28 points 5 days ago

Sorry I read that as the US spent nearly 18 billion of tax payers money on health and education for the US.

Alas, my mistake. Looks like business as usual.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago (13 children)

This right here is why the presidential election is still close in spite of one side being a couple of mentally unwell and personally repulsive habitual liars.

I don't condone being a single issue (non)voter, but millions of people are and insisting on a simultaneously morally repugnant and electorally ruinous course of action could very well cost the election and end American democracy.

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[–] faizalr@fedia.io 19 points 5 days ago

Such a waste.

[–] arefx@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago
[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

All that money could've been given to Ukraine instead. What a waste

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