roughbarked said:
Cymek said:
ruby said:The 22 billion from Spocky’s first post on this subject today looks to be what the US has put into Israel’s recent wars-
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/10/7/reports-israel-couldnt-wage-wars-on-gaza-lebanon-iran-without-us-support
The $725 million ‘offshore procurement’ and the 4.4 billion ‘replenishing arms delivered to Israel from US stocks’…(not sure if Australia produces missiles so I didn’t include the 5 billion from that column) ….I wonder what percentage of this be would sales from private Australian weapons companies which go to the US and then on to Israel. From my reading from the links from Spocky’s initial post about this a few days back, the Labor government wound back some of the supplies going to Israel via private companies, which were done under the Morrison government. I expect it might be difficult to wind back all of it without compensation? And perhaps these private companies supply our military as well and they get to test them (on so many civilians, that is the truly disgusting and horrifying aspect). I would guess Australia’s percentage of this 5.1ish billion would not be large. I shall have to reread the Michael West article.
I would like to know more about the ‘billions and billions of Australian taxpayers money has been sent to Israel’ though. Does some of the 8.12 billion from the ‘foreign military funding’ part of this graph involve the Australian military? Finding out just what this involves might be a security issue for Australia?
So many questions.
So many tangled webs.(As an aside, I’m super happy that the NSW government’s protest laws enacted after Bondi have been struck down….will be hopping on the train with friends to go to the next protest!)
Killing is our business and business is good
Military weapons sales is very morally ambiguous at the best of times
Guns and rockets and all things to kill people are big part of the US economy. They have to have wars to be able to do business.
and to keep their angry incels from causing as much domestic trouble