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[quote=Anonymous]I can't believe that people still feel that the only way to make US foreign policy is to give out as much money as possible to our "allies."

UGH.

No wonder the US is in debt to our eyeballs.

I get it - I agree that you gotta help your friends.  I disagree we need to do anything more to help Israel.  First off, they got the money.  And if they don't, there's plenty of rich Jews that can privately fund the whole country.  Second, I'm not really seeing how they are our "ally" beyond that influential and rich Jews live in the US so politically, we deem them as such.  Lastly, for what they are doing to Palestine, not sure why we are funding them for genocide.

On Ukraine - I don't know.  When will it be enough?  Are we supporting Ukraine?  Hell, no.  We are just anti Putin/Russia.  However, if Putin gets his way with Ukraine, I'm actually unsure how this hurts the US in ways that are unimaginable.  I think that Putin truly wants Ukraine because of stupid reasons connected to nationalism v he wants to use it as his first step to achieve world domination.  Seriously.  I think he has bigger problems and took an unwise gamble to take Ukraine thinking it was going to be easier.  But the US is funding this thing like it's our war and it really isn't.  We want to beat Putin but it's not really our war.

Lastly, Taiwan.  Dear God, the US has to let it go.  China, unlike Russia, are not fools and do not gamble like that.  China won't do a thing to Taiwan because they have big probs on the mainland.  Taiwan is absolutely fine.  They are prob the strongest little country in the world!  They got the trade doing great, the tech/IT/econ doing well, they got their shit together culturally, politically and domestically.  I really think that we need to not take care of them!

There are those who I think think by being able to shell out funds to countries makes us powerful and leverages the perspective that we are good to our friends.  The actual truth is domestically, we have more and more probs that we should be throwing more and more money to resolving but we don't because it's too messy.  It's easy to shell out money on the foreign policy front - it's really just money and might we are exporting.  I think there was a time when that was really important but not much in these cases and the world is changing to a certain extent.  There's more than 1-2 heavyweights in the world now and our "power" is not defined the same way as it used to be.  The world is changing but the US is not.[/quote]

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