They don’t need the money no, although we did for some fuckin reason just give them an amount of money equal to about their total yearly defense budget.
However, they desperately need the diplomatic cover we give them on the world stage. The western world is well capable to make life miserable via sanctions for any country that isn’t playing ball to what we want them to do (Russia, Iran, North Korea, etc), to say nothing of getting hauled to the Hague to stand trial. Without the US shielding them from diplomatic consequences I think the theoretical ability to do their killing in a physical sense wouldn’t be something they felt nearly as free with.
The worst option was funding Israel and not Ukraine, but Israel can genocide Palestine just fine without any more American aid.
The only way to change that reality is to force a regime change or invade.
As a small silver lining, about a third of the Israeli aid package was humanitarian aid for Gaza.
We’ll see how much of it Israel actually lets them have.
They don’t need the money no, although we did for some fuckin reason just give them an amount of money equal to about their total yearly defense budget.
However, they desperately need the diplomatic cover we give them on the world stage. The western world is well capable to make life miserable via sanctions for any country that isn’t playing ball to what we want them to do (Russia, Iran, North Korea, etc), to say nothing of getting hauled to the Hague to stand trial. Without the US shielding them from diplomatic consequences I think the theoretical ability to do their killing in a physical sense wouldn’t be something they felt nearly as free with.