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by Zaheer 93 days ago
Keep in mind who pays for the replacements - U.S. Citizens to the tune of $317.9 billion over the last 70 years [1].

https://taxpayersforpeace.org/

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Two follow-ons from that:

1. Israel's sugar daddy will give (as in gift) them all the munitions they need. They'll never come close to running out.

2. This is the country that's been crying wolf over Iran being months away from having the bomb for something like twenty years now, while having up to several hundred nukes of their own. Why should we believe them when they're crying wolf about running out of munitions?

A thousand bucks per citizen, whew.
When you put it that way it seems pretty cheap.
When you put it that way, sounds like they should be able to take care of themselves and not need the US to help fight their battles for them.
> pretty cheap

What exactly are you buying with that money, to know it's cheap?

Well, that money is buying weaponry created by US companies for the most part. My point is the federal government budget over that same time period is in the many trillions, and $300B is just a fraction of a percent of that.
in the past few years, OpenAI and other companies like it have received relatively the same amount of money the USA has spent on weapons for the past 70 years it seems. so relative to that, yes, it is cheap...
The difference is that OpenAI is addicting (mostly) consenting adults, not genociding civilians.
Middle east wire tap effectively.