Like let's put aside socialism, morals, basic humanity. Why the fuck does the west support Israel to the degree it does? Like it only alienates basically every other potential partner in the ME. It can't effectively serve as a barracks state because who would we need that army to fight that wouldn't only make things worse? Their economy is basically propped up by the USA. Yes they serve as a platform for weapons and systems testing, but they don't need a complete blank cheque too it. Like I don't get this logic. Cut em a check and pull bibi's leash and wash your hands of it. Like the logic of "Unconditional 110% support" is just fuckin nuts. Yeah sure a good bit of it us ideology, but there has to be some matrierial calculus in there somewhere. They are basically sacrificing the baby Ukraine over this.

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[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A front for proxy wars and a way to test military and surveillance hardware on living people. scared-fash

[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Maybe a way to make sure Egypt doesn't cut the US off from the Suez canal, among other things.

Edit: It's also a way to do genocide and/or threaten to do genocide, but by proxy. Americans audiences don't pay attention to it because they don't think they'll be on the receiving end and it's something on the other side of the world that makes no sense uf you can't understand class conflict. Every other person in the world can probably see what the US pays Israel to do in Palestine as a warning that you better not step out of line.