Not at all. So the money flow will almost certainly be changed from “sending weapons” to “sending R&D money” or the like.
Even by simply changing what kind of “aid” is sent, Israel could then use their own tax money to buy the weapons. For example if Israel gets free datacenters they could then use the billions they “saved” on R&D investments and use that money to buy weapons with it, having even more available to invest in their own arms industry. Critical to know is that most Israeli weapons are mostly not manufactured in Israel, primarily R&D is done there. Production mostly happens in the US or Europe.
More context, note the term “Cooperative development of defense technologies”
So, what, the US will announce a strategic investment of a billion dollars in “development” in Israel, and then Israel will just turn around and buy a billion dollars in weapons? People can only be fooled by this trick in its early stages, the moment the switch actually occurs people will just go back to being mad and nothing was fixed. It buys them one election cycle.
Maybe their plan is to only allow one more election cycle. The capitalist class has dispensed with many of their other ruses already, so why not one more?
… can Israel afford their own weapons?
Not at all. So the money flow will almost certainly be changed from “sending weapons” to “sending R&D money” or the like.
Even by simply changing what kind of “aid” is sent, Israel could then use their own tax money to buy the weapons. For example if Israel gets free datacenters they could then use the billions they “saved” on R&D investments and use that money to buy weapons with it, having even more available to invest in their own arms industry. Critical to know is that most Israeli weapons are mostly not manufactured in Israel, primarily R&D is done there. Production mostly happens in the US or Europe.
More context, note the term “Cooperative development of defense technologies”
That seems like a poor bait-and-switch.
So, what, the US will announce a strategic investment of a billion dollars in “development” in Israel, and then Israel will just turn around and buy a billion dollars in weapons? People can only be fooled by this trick in its early stages, the moment the switch actually occurs people will just go back to being mad and nothing was fixed. It buys them one election cycle.
Maybe their plan is to only allow one more election cycle. The capitalist class has dispensed with many of their other ruses already, so why not one more?
Why even have another election cycle?