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[–] 87 points 3 months ago (5 children)

The same pentagon that they want to merge with the Israeli military?

They want to give them even more money under the guise of “security.” Israel has captured the legislature. They will soon control the Pentagon.

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  • [–] 31 points 3 months ago

    Israel has captured the legislature.

    They're hardly alone. It's been an absolute feeding frenzy of corporate leeches sucking the US Treasury dry ever since Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan began privatizing every state function they could get their hands on.

    The joke of Hegseth's budget request is that it won't actually procure more hardware. He's putting in bids against a cartel that can just raise the prices, even as it forgets how to build the things we're buying. This, even as new entrants to the Pentagon feeding frenzy simply fail to deliver promised material

    It's something of a joke that Israelis don't even want the weapons we send them. They just want the money, so they can buy from their own contractors.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    That would make sense. The US military may not want to drop live ammo on US citizens. So the Israeli military could step in and do it for them.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago*

    If the US allowed foreign soldiers to invade and kill American citizens I think we'd have a military coup.

    No joke that might actually do it, Americans have never responded well to non-Americans killing Americans. We only let Americans kill Americans at home

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