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What does the US get out of israel? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Like let's put aside socialism, morals, basic humanity. Why the fuck does the west support Israel to the degree it does? Like it only alienates basically every other potential partner in the ME. It can't effectively serve as a barracks state because who would we need that army to fight that wouldn't only make things worse? Their economy is basically propped up by the USA. Yes they serve as a platform for weapons and systems testing, but they don't need a complete blank cheque too it. Like I don't get this logic. Cut em a check and pull bibi's leash and wash your hands of it. Like the logic of "Unconditional 110% support" is just fuckin nuts. Yeah sure a good bit of it us ideology, but there has to be some matrierial calculus in there somewhere. They are basically sacrificing the baby Ukraine over this.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The answer is why not? The US does that simply because it can.

Too many people try to complicate and rationalize the motivation behind US support, but when you think about this from the US imperialist perspective, it’s really simple: they’re not Arabs, they’re not Muslims, they align with our interests, so why not?

The US is not spending hundreds of billions of taxpayers money to prop up Israel, it created those money out of thin air, because of dollar hegemony. When you have that power of getting “free lunches” everywhere, you do that just because you can. It’s free lunch.

This is also why I keep emphasizing that de-dollarization is so important. Strip away the power of the dollar (monetary imperialism) and all the military and financial support from the US falls away.