That's not how military alliances work. We don't give money to Israel because Israel is poor. But sure, protecting civilians from foreign bombardment is the one thing in the bill the Democrats are willing to defund.https://twitter.com/paulwaldman1/status/1440371459432452102 …
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We don't "subsidize" NATO in the way Trump believed; that was about what portion of each country's GDP they spend on their own military. Pakistan and Ukraine are not wealthy countries. The point is just that Israel is perfectly capable of funding its own military.
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If anything, Trump's proposal was the reverse of this cash flow. Trump wanted allies to pay us for protection.https://time.com/5548013/trump-allies-pay-cost-plus-50-troops/ …
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