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lovichyesterday at 9:23 PM2 repliesview on HN

And they can redirect resources to the war if we removed it.

If anything, removal of our support probably leads to the use of dumber less targeted weapons like carpet bombing or good ole white phosphorus that they’ve already demonstrated use of in past conflicts.

If we were giving them 30+% of their gdp then yea, dropping that probably stops the conflict. 2% is just a budget reshuffle.


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paimapiyesterday at 9:41 PM

you should look up how much the 2008 financial crisis shrank the US GDP. 2% of an entire nation state's GDP especially with aid concentrated in gov\mil sectors of which a huge part of Israel's private sector is dependent on for grants is not a 'budget reshuffle'

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megousyesterday at 11:16 PM

Israelis can't carpet bomb. They don't have the tech.

Are you saying 10's of thousands of bombs US supplied to level the entire cities and countryside to the ground is preferable to IL having to get this elsewhere, because why exactly? What does precision have to do with it?

You can scroll around here to see what US did by providing all those mostly free bombs:

https://earth.google.com/web/@31.31022959,34.24130746,30.076...

(south is the only thing google is not misrepresenting on the aerial imagery)

This is preferable to carpet bombing, yeah? How?

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