Since October 7, 2023, the USA has spent more than $22 billion supporting Israel’s military invasions, including in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, Anadolu Agency reports.
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the USA supplied 69% of Israel’s arms from 2019 to 2023, which increased to 78%.
By December 2023, the USA had delivered over 10,000 tons of weapons worth $2.4 billion. This number grew to 50,000 tons by August 2024, transported via hundreds of planes and ships.
As Israel’s biggest ally, the country has supplied a wide range of advanced military equipment, including missiles for the Iron Dome defense system, precision-guided bombs, CH-53 heavy lift helicopters.
Also the USA delivered AH-64 Apache helicopters, and 155mm artillery shells, along with bunker-busting munitions and armored vehicles.
Since 1946, the USA has provided over $310 billion in military and economic aid to Israel, adjusted for inflation, according to the American think tank, Council on Foreign Relations.
A 10-year $38 billion military aid deal signed in 2016 remains in effect, allocating $3.8 billion annually for foreign military financing and missile defense.
Emergency packages in 2024 added billions more, including $14.1 billion approved in February and a $2.5 billion arms shipment in March. Concerns about their use in civilian areas have drawn criticism, with limited Congressional oversight over the transfers.
By 2024, the USA had authorized over 100 arms deals for Israel, supporting its missile defense systems and replenishing stockpiles, despite ongoing scrutiny over the impact on civilian populations in Gaza.
Middle East Monitor / ABC Flash Point News 2024.
Hopefully Americans starting to see what a useless problem they have and is not cheap to support criminals either moral or financial ways !!!
Its your taxpayer money that pays for your countries supply of military weapons and vehicles /aircraft AM and the US “almighty dollar ” is supported by western countries and petro dollar . That could change when the BRICS establish a separate money supply ,it will take a time but it will happen , even your own millionaire/billionaire financial conglomerates are hedging their bets by buying Bitcoin.-so much for loyalty ! Read financial US website — decrypt.co plus Greyscale-Blackrock-Fidelity US financial conglomerates have in total over $600,000,000 in bitcoins . All the money given to Israel could have been invested in… Read more »
You are expecting TOO much from the “Americans”. They are as politically, socially ignorant as they come. They are retarded. So, don’t hold your breath for things to change in the “home of the brave and land of the free” – the land of milk and honey.
These ‘financial pressures’ have been the sole sure pressure points to which successive US Governments have responded.
The ‘after 20 years of Occupation US withdrawal from Afghanistan’ under the Trump Presidential administration, serves as one case-in-point.
The ‘today near-complete US and US Ally withdrawal from Iraq’ is another.
You have to try Valkyrie its a young country with “values” that might not be acceptable in other countries with an older heritage its been told to “worship ” millionaires and that’s what they should strive to obtain and that force and might are the be all and end all in life . Like all empires that eventually come to an end they don’t like being just “another country ” it will be a struggle for them to accept this having being built up continually by successive governments to regard themselves as “superior ” . The problem is will they… Read more »
This is what a lot of countries see as “Americanism ” .