>>1910205The thing people need to understand about foreign aid is that it is not charity. The US always gets something in return. For example in the case of Israel, we get an authoritarian theocracy that manufactures generation after generation of islamist terrorist movements in order to rationalize apartheid to its voting public, and by promoting the "aliyah" meme on numerous western countries actively resurrects antiquated antisemitic conspiracy theories about "rootless cosmopolitans" because it serves the narrow interests of a small group of corrupt politicians and religious extremists. Oh and also something something only democracy in the middle east, gay rights (except when it's haredim), here is a train so this is on topic
