"It has been difficult for the U.S. public, journalists, and members of Congress to get an accurate understanding of the amount of military equipment and financial assistance that the U.S. government has provided."
  • Rottcodd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    Nearly every day, I’m astonished yet again by how blatantly insane this timeline is.

    Think about it - US taxpayers have paid over $20 billion so that a rogue state can massacre tens of thousands of people and displace millions, so that a corrupt psychopath can stay in office and out of prison, so that some other psychopaths can sate their bloodlust, and so that a relative handful of defense contractors and politicians can finance their lives of wholly unearned and undeserved privilege.

    There isn’t even the faintest vestige of sense to any of that. It’s wholly and completely insane. And yet it’s reality.

    How is that even possible?

    • CaractacusPottsOPMEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      The main threat to US interests is secular Arab nationalism. Israel’s function is to constantly provoke turmoil in the region so that US oil interests are protected.

      • Rottcodd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago

        Yes - that is a huge part of it, and dating all the way back at least to the CIA-backed overthrow of Mosaddegh.

        Middle Eastern oil wealth administered by stable and rational governments would be a direct threat to western hegemony so the US has long had a vested interest in destabiliziing the Middle East, and has long pursued that exact goal.

        And yes - Israel is key to that.

        None of which makes any of it any less insane.