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White House Seeks $105 Billion to Arm Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan

news.antiwar.com White House Seeks $105 Billion To Arm Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan - News From Antiwar.com

On Friday, the White House rolled out its proposed $105 billion bill to arm Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. The legislation also includes funding for the border and humanitarian assistance. US officials say over $50 billion will go to American weapons manufacturers. The Biden administration is proposin...

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But when we ask for help as citizens, "how are you gonna pay for it, huh?"
- This sum represents about 1.5% of the US budget in 2022.
  
  And yet that's too much when it's for anything other than war.
  
  Since it's insignificant, would you please send me $314 to cover my share?

Healthcare, debt relief, child povery mitigation.
unlimited genocide on US designated subhumans

No healthcare though.
- or living wage, or affordable housing
  
  or infrastructure or child care or
- The US government only disagrees on matters which support the average citizen. Other than that, both sides are in lockstep when it comes to voting on bills...
- They already spend a ton of public dollars on health. The problem is that it goes to insurance companies, administrative staff, and the downstream health costs of inadequate early access to care.
  
  You're kinda contradicting yourself.
  They don't spend public dollars on health. They give it to insurance companies and administrative staff and pharmaceutical companies and other private moneyed interests, and then there's none left for us.
  
  I assume that any military spending would be equally inefficient.
- how do you think it has the biggest army in the world

This shit is going to pass with full bipartisan support and libs are still going to be confused the next time someone tells them both ~~sides~~ parties are the same.
- This shit is going to pass with full bipartisan support
  Hell yeah

famously poorly armed state of Israel

Desperate empire practices policy of War Startups, sends funding to whomever

Silica Valley
- Saigon Valley
- startup
  taiwan
  israel
  Hmmm

Please attach some basic conditions like... don't do war crimes.

~4 NASAs (FY2023)
- Truly demonstrates how wildly preposterous it is at its core. Space exploration makes countries focus together on a bigger picture, which everyone's also interested in, and even makes us realize what our taxes are capable of financing. Regardless, its worth it alone just for showing youngsters how fascinating and worthwhile science is as a career choice...
- Straight up linking to a .pdf like a madman

The burger regime rn:

One of these is not like the others.
- Two of these are not being pulverized by a nuclear power at the moment.
- Nonetheless, each is a proxy war interest of the US, which alone shows how it's atrocious. The first two actively are, all three have been, and the third is the most anxiety ridden one on my end. It'd could go from third times a charm to nuke real fast

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