Support for Israel’s onslaught in Gaza and other escalations in the Middle East has cost the US at least $22.76 billion since October 7, 2023, Brown University’s Costs of War project said in a paper published on Monday.
Costs of War reached the number, which is a very conservative estimate, by combining the cost of US military aid to Israel and the cost of related US military operations in the region, including the war against the Houthis in Yemen.
The report found that the US government has approved at least $17.9 billion in military aid to support Israeli military operations in Gaza and elsewhere in the region over the past year, significantly more than any other year since the US began providing military aid to Israel in 1959.
The paper notes the difficulty in tracking US military support for Israel due to the Biden administration’s lack of transparency. “For instance, the Biden administration has made at least 100 arms deals with Israel since October 2023 that fell below the value that would have triggered the requirement to notify Congress of the details,” the paper reads.
The $17.9 billion also does not include a major $20.3 arms deal that the State Department approved for Israel in August since the money will be spent in the coming years. It’s also unclear at this time how much of the $20.3 billion, which includes an $18.8 billion deal for F-15 fighter jets, will be covered by US military aid.
The paper details how the US has provided Israel with weapons for decades. “The US has been Israel’s top arms supplier for over five decades. Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of US aid in the world since World War II, and it is in the midst of a ten-year, $38 billion military aid agreement, which was negotiated under the Obama administration, covering the fiscal years 2019 to 2028,” the paper reads.
The report says the US has spent at least $4.8 billion on its own military operations in the Middle East, including $2.4 billion on intercepting Houthi missiles and drones and launching missile strikes on Yemen. Another $2.4 billion for spending on US operations in the region was included in the $95 billion foreign military aid bill President Biden signed into law in April. The paper adds another $50-$70 million in additional combat pay for US military personnel.
The costs for the US taxpayer will continue to rise as there’s no end in sight to Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza or its bombing campaign in Lebanon. The risk of a full-blown war with Iran is also extremely high as the US is coordinating with Israel on its plans to attack Iran in retaliation for the Iranian missile barrage that hit Israel last week, which was a response to several Israeli escalations. The US bombing campaign in Yemen has also failed to deter the Houthis, who have vowed they would only stop their attacks on shipping if there were a ceasefire in Gaza.
Maybe a good time to sell everything and leave, especially since the Republic has ceased to exist. What is there to look forward to, since Zionist are in control and we have been betrayed by 95% of our elected officials. Who would have thought, that America, a great Republic, would sit by and aid, endorse, abet, finance a GENOCIDE for the Terrorist in Israel? We have become a depraved society, like much of Europe/UK, suckling the wangs of the Zionist and slaughtering those who refuse.
“The Republic” has been genociding since day one.
Such a good reason to help o
ur little Welfare QUEEN GENOCIDE THE WOMEN & CHILDREN OF THE HOLY LAND TO MAKE ZIONAZIS HAPPY. SO GOOD FOR OUR REPUTATION & BUSUNESS…!!!!! EVERYBODY LOVES CHILD KILLERS….!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
stop whining
… and it was never a "republic".
"Republic" is such an elastic word that it can cover pretty much any system. Iran is an "Islamic Republic." China is a "People's Republic." Venezuela is a "Bolivarian Republic." None of those, nor the US, look that much like each other, or anything like Plato's "Republic."
Ok, I should have said the US, as well as its Colonial antecedents, has always been a plutocracy.
Maybe the Republic has a dirty record, but being worse people's bitch murderin WOMEN & CHILDREN 4 SOME SICK CULT WHICH DOESN' t PAY IT'S WAY BUT IS AMERIVA'S BIGGEST MOST COSTLY WELFARE QUEEN GOES AGAINST EVERYTHING A REPUBLIC STANDS FOR! !!!!!! MORE LIKE BEING- SLAVES!!!!!
THAN A FREE & INDEPENDENT NATION!!
Whine in all caps if you like, but I doubt the Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw of circa 1830-1840 would think that aid to Israel is worse than the Trail of Tears.
Strange you should choose another land theft connected caper to compare to the Gaza GENOCIDE !!!
Yes they both have a lot in common. LONG FORCED MARCHES WITH LITTLE OR NO FOOD BY CONIALISTS TO APPROPRIATE THEIR NATIVE LAND!!!!!! Good choice, but a bad attitude & no shame on this one!!!
What’s so “strange” about me providing an example that proves my point? The American “republic” has always been a bloodthirsty conquest machine.
did you know: Hitler admired America because he was impressed with the genocide of the Natives'?
As long as the federal government can be leveraged by lobbies at a return 1000 to 1 or more, this is going to continue.
I rear somewhere that Israel is the U.S.' top[ ally. But No.1 WELFARE QUEEN is closer to the truth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
…and for 2 decades in a row was deemed by the intelligence community to be the # 1 threat to US intelligence security. Pollard ought to have been executed. Obozo freed him
Holy Dog Sh*t Batman! We have needs here at home.
The cost in money simply doesn't matter. By the time the zionists are done with this country, nobody's gonna care about money.
https://x.com/Abra_Company/status/1843499186819620896
There is a consensus in U.S. elites that the genocide should continue.
Mayorkas Warns of Funding Shortfall for Rest of Hurricane Season
The homeland security secretary said FEMA, which is dealing with the destruction from Hurricane Helene, would need more money to respond to another major storm.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/02/us/politics/fema-funding-shortfall-hurricane-season.html
FKH spent billions of criminal illegal aliens. Now, there is none left to help our citizens in need.
Trump 2024!!!
What, exactly, was "billions" spent on for "illegal aliens" ? Do you mean "billions spent by the Biden Administration in border security" and "billions more than Trump spent on border issues" ? Because those ARE facts in evidence.
Or do you contend that Biden was buying every Irish-man who snuck across the border from Saskatchewan, a Buick and a house in California's LOVELY, SAN FERNANDO VALLEY ?
There's money for Israel but not for the citizens of the USA?
10 year treasury hit 4% on Monday. Investors are voting with the pocketbooks. They calculate that Federal Debt is increasingly risky. And they are right:,
Interest payments on Federal Debt will consume 30-35% of Federal Tax Revenue in 2025.
At some point, investors will be demanding 6% maybe even 7% for lending to the Feds.
No more money for war
I now understand why American cities look like third world ****holes compared to those in China these days.
Genociders Fake photo exposed –
https://x.com/Maraki378/status/1843378445344223679?s=19
yes our GDP here is smaller than Georgia and our cities still look 100 times better than the best looking parts of downtown.
Thats why I consider GDP to be relative, especially per capita. You guys are definitely richer but things are more expensive. We are poorer but things are cheaper.
Your country probably isn’t allergic to investment in public infrastructure.
Yeah
Its quite sad, I hope the best for you guys regarding urbanism and good public places.. one of my minors right now is urban planning.
I found an ald story about the Diablo Canyon nuclear reactor vigil and discovered I have been advocating writing in Nobody since Wavy Gravy explained it in April of 1984.
Write in Nobody for every elected federal office and be part of a nonviolent revolution to make a new nonviolent nation.
Most everybody who has died in all the wars since the Korean and Vietnam wars would still be alive today if Nobody was president.
1. "Oh, Diablo Canyon 2, why can't you be more like Diablo Canyon 1 ??"
2. Wavy Gravy…s**t, there's a name I haven't heard in much context since the messy Ba'ath that was Woodstock '99.
Hung out with him in London crash house on Eel Pie Island in Twickenham in 1971. Gonna look up if, how or what he is doing today!! If he still is doing I will report back here!!!
Hah ! Small world, friends of mine lived in Twickenham in the late ’00s !
Not that elections make a difference, but voting for Stein, with enough %, allows for third party movement in the future. The platform is explicity antigenocide, so it sends a specific message why “nobody” in the uniparty.
In Canadian federal politics, parties receive a set $ value as government funding for each vote they receive (on the order of CDN$5-8 per vote, I think).
Yes it benefits the "big four" who already have the means to help themselves, but it means that even when I or others vote Green or Rhino or Marxist-Leninist or Communist (yes those last two are real & compete against each other), your vote translates into funding, if no chance of a win.
Voting to win is a uniparty goal.
Debates against warmongers is important to break the spell the population is under.
Democracy is more than winning or losing media contests every few years.
Of course. But starting somewhere is just that: starting somewhere.
FYI to our stupid Empire: on Sunday there was a family living in a U Haul in my grocery store’s parking lot.
It’s appropriate the line in the article’s graph is depicted in vivid red since it really is blood money we are talking about here
America FEMA can't help our citizens, but the DimoRats can send hundreds of Billions to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and every other country with their hand out including NATO countries.
FJB
May the gods bless the repetitive madness of empires.
the us state of Georgia could pay for all israel aid for 36 years sotp whining
Until Georgia joins NATO, then 2% of their GDP tithes to them.
the STATE
the country which is also amazing
both are amaxing
Well, yes, it IS the State that decides national policies; seldom I think has NATO membership ever gone to referendum.
What a waste of money on the unchosen people…!
The paper notes the difficulty in tracking US military support for Israel due to the Biden administration’s lack of transparency. “For instance, the Biden administration has made at least 100 arms deals with Israel since October 2023 that fell below the value that would have triggered the requirement to notify Congress of the details,” the paper reads.
Isn't there someone out there in congress land that could come up with a bill that would make it mandatory to notify congress of ALL arms deals? Of course, that would mean they would have responsibility that they obviously don't want since they've already relinquished their responsibility for declaring war by authorizing AUMFs. Never mind.
Sound like the CRIME OF STRUCTURING TO ME…!!! Where are all the clever lawers WHEN WE NEED SOME OR EVEN ONE?
LET US NOT FORGET THE AMERICAN
GENOCIDE LAW THAT BIDEN WAS THE SENATE "MANAGER" OF GETTING ENACTED!!! (18 U.S.C. 1091:
18 U.S.C. 1091 is a federal law that prohibits genocide, which is defined as violent attacks with the intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. The law applies to genocide committed in times of peace or war.
Our tax dollars to Israel have helped eliminate some of the worst terrorists on the planet. Here are just some of the a holes that are now at room temperature –
Hamas Lebanon Chief Eliminated in Israeli Airstrike was an UNRWA Manager
Fateh Sherif, Head of the Lebanon Branch in the Hamas terrorist organization, was eliminated in a precise IAF strike.
Sherif was responsible for coordinating Hamas' terror activities in Lebanon with Hezbollah operatives, as well as Hamas’ efforts in Lebanon to recruit operatives and acquire weapons.
Fateh Sherif was also an accredited
@UNRWA member, and was the head of the UNRWA Teachers Union in Lebanon.
The IDF and the ISA will continue to operate against anyone who poses a threat to the civilians of the State of Israel.
News the jihad loving media will not report…..Not just Israelis, but Iranian, Syrian, Lebanese people are celebrating across the Middle East. Only the Left-wing in America and Europe mourn the death of the jihad mass murderer.
Join in the celebrations at this website – https://gellerreport.com/2024/09/jubilation-huge-celebrations-break-out-in-syria-iran-lebanon-praising-nasrallahs-death.html/
Wow, there’s a name I hadn’t seen in a long time. I had pretty much assumed that once her 15 minutes of attention reward for acting batshit insane in public were up, she had gone off to do something productive and within her skill set, like making simple crafts at a workshop for sale to help keep whatever group home she ended up in supplied with candy.
It makes me sick when I think about how the states who have whole towns and cities destroyed by Helene are only getting a small percentage of that and so many people are affected.
Actually, it makes me sick all the time… anything is better than using it for genocide and geopolitical conquest.
And let's notice the essay posted on this site just yesterday that pointed out that the Tennessee National Guard, which could help with stranded and needy Helene victims, is currently deployed in Kuwait.
About 6% of the Tennessee National Guard is currently deployed — to Fort Bliss, Texas, on their to Kuwait. They’re part of an Armored Cavalry regiment. The more useful National Guard units from Tennessee — the 194th Engineer Brigade, and 117th Military Police Battalion, for example — are probably indeed helping with stranded and needy Helene victims.
Mmm. Malcom Kyeyune’s piece linked yesterday here from UnHerd seemed to suggest far more were not Guarding their own Nation.
Yeah, I think it was a "decent" part of the Guard being IN Kuwait if I recall.
About 700 Tennessee National Guard members. Which is 700 too many, but a tiny fraction of the 10,000+ Tennessee National Guard manpower, and of a type not especially suited to disaster relief. They have engineering units to build/rebuild. They have MPs to keep order. They have infantry to deliver aid. THOSE troops aren't the ones in Kuwait.
Meanwhile, Milton is bearing down on my house, and I’m not even ASKING for National Guard help.
God Bless and your neighbors.
Stay safe.
And 6% is way too high regardless of their need in natural disasters. Any number is way too high not only for Guardsmen, but for any other part of our military to be in Kuwait. Just sayin. Couldn't help myself.
Hey man, without the Tennessee National Guard garrisoning Kuwait City and the posh neighborhoods of Upper West Kuwait, that troublesome imp Saddam Hussein might make a run at them again !
Wow, that's a lot of bunker busters – but not enough for Israel, obviously, as they still have a lot of the women and children of the inferior race to murder.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-10-08/bunker-busters-zionists-and-tsar-bomba-solution
Phil Butler
https://www.globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-zionist-plan-for-the-middle-east/5324815
Bout $3,000 bucks per Israeli. Probably won't even get a thank you