The United States has spent a record of at least $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel since the war in Gaza began and led to escalating conflict around the Middle East.

The United States has spent a record of at least $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel since the war in Gaza began and led to escalating conflict around the Middle East, according to a report for Brown University’s Costs of War project, released on the anniversary of Hamas’ attacks on Israel.

An additional $4.86 billion has gone into stepped-up U.S. military operations in the region since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, researchers said in findings first provided to The Associated Press. That includes the costs of a Navy-led campaign to quell strikes on commercial shipping by Yemen’s Houthis, who are carrying them out in solidarity with the fellow Iranian-backed group Hamas.

The report — completed before Israel opened a second front, this one against Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon, in late September — is one of the first tallies of estimated U.S. costs as the Biden administration backs Israel in its conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon and seeks to contain hostilities by Iran-allied armed groups in the region.

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    3 months ago

    My money was s going to commit genocide, I do not want to commit or aide in commiting genocide, therefore in your mind, it’s about the money in that case.

    It’s a simple concept, take care of your citizens before sending off your children and money to some random country.

    This you?

    You’re not very good at pretending to be a Very Concerned Citizen™

    • basmatii@lemm.eeEnglish
      25·
      3 months ago

      Yes, now reread it in context. I do not want to send money to your shitty country to stop a genocide we had nothing to do with. I want to stop sending money to a country that is committing genocide with said money so I am no longer responsible for aiding said genocide.

      These are not contradictory statements, child.

      • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        42·
        3 months ago

        Yes, now reread it in context. I do not want to send money to your shitty country to stop a genocide we had nothing to do with. I want to stop sending money to a country that is committing genocide with said money so I am no longer responsible for aiding said genocide.

        Yes, I got that you’re fine with genocide and only care about sending money, you already made that perfectly clear. You don’t have to repeat yourself.

          • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
            42·
            3 months ago

            I’m not fine with genocide, I simply have no more capacity to care about yours.

            Yes, you don’t care about genocide, we all got it, you’ve been very clear.

              • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
                42·
                3 months ago

                Now stop begging my country to ignore it’s own problems for yours.

                Don’t really know what country I’m begging to care about the US’s problems, but you have fun with, uh, whatever weird pro-genocide position you got going on there.

                • basmatii@lemm.eeEnglish
                  29·
                  3 months ago

                  The US is not involved in Ukraine, you’re begging random poor people that in the US to care about Ukraine when they can’t make rent and are food insecure.

                  Stop begging the US for help. We’re tired we’re poor we have nothing left for you or anyone else.

                  Fix your own damn problems for once.

                  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    42·
                    3 months ago

                    Stop begging the US for help. We’re tired we’re poor we have nothing left for you or anyone else.

                    Again, I don’t really know where you think I, an American, am begging the US, but uh, you have fun seeing pictures of murdered innocents and thinking “Oh boy, I hope my taxes are lowered by 2$ this year!” instead of “Jesus Christ, that’s an atrocity”, like any decent human being.