Right now, yes. Hell even before the recent war broke out, when Biden threatened to withdraw US aid if Ukraine didn’t root out corruption (a move Trump complained about at the time and what stirred up all the controversy about Hunter Biden - Trump wanted corruption to remain) it proved very effective, Ukraine clearly did not want to lose the aid and dealt with the corruption as requested.
What did you think I was talking about?? How was it a bad thing then when dealing with corruption, and why would it be a bad thing now dealing with war crimes?
I’m sure if the US withdrew aid to Israel, it likely also wouldn’t exist for that much longer. Hence why it would be effective.
Israel doesn’t have the enemies in had in the 1960’s. It would certainly be in more danger but it could also pick up relationships with Russia and China.
To be clear I’m not saying it’s a bad thing to clean up corruption and stop war crimes. I’m just saying one country is at the end of its rope and the other is very much not. That said, I’m all for cutting Israel off if they don’t stop playing stupid games.
Israel doesn’t have enemies anymore, it has customers. It sells weapons grade hacking technology to oppressive regimes - hell, even to the Mexican cartels.
But even so the US cutting them off would be a severe blow. Unfortunately it would also have significant blowback within the US.
While sending them 3 billion a year, if they wanted them to stop they would threaten to stop sending the money.
Biden made that move with Ukraine to great success, why not now?
If Ukraine loses funding it ceases to exist.
Right now, yes. Hell even before the recent war broke out, when Biden threatened to withdraw US aid if Ukraine didn’t root out corruption (a move Trump complained about at the time and what stirred up all the controversy about Hunter Biden - Trump wanted corruption to remain) it proved very effective, Ukraine clearly did not want to lose the aid and dealt with the corruption as requested.
What did you think I was talking about?? How was it a bad thing then when dealing with corruption, and why would it be a bad thing now dealing with war crimes?
I’m sure if the US withdrew aid to Israel, it likely also wouldn’t exist for that much longer. Hence why it would be effective.
Israel doesn’t have the enemies in had in the 1960’s. It would certainly be in more danger but it could also pick up relationships with Russia and China.
To be clear I’m not saying it’s a bad thing to clean up corruption and stop war crimes. I’m just saying one country is at the end of its rope and the other is very much not. That said, I’m all for cutting Israel off if they don’t stop playing stupid games.
Israel doesn’t have enemies anymore, it has customers. It sells weapons grade hacking technology to oppressive regimes - hell, even to the Mexican cartels.
But even so the US cutting them off would be a severe blow. Unfortunately it would also have significant blowback within the US.
Oh yes, just not existential.
You’re right. If the US stopped sending them money their military budget would only be 20 billion a year.