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Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system

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Re: Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system

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Post by hmmokidk »

dbdoskey wrote: post #17
ausbah wrote: post #6

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None. The US money Israel receives is purely used for buying from US defense contractors. This is developed by purely Israeli defense contractors. The US leverages significant discounts on these Israeli developed systems compared to other countries. Also, the amount Israel gets is in the same ballpark as Egypt and Lebanon, but interesting that that is never mentioned?

So it goes from Us Citizens to the wealthy who sell the weapon systems. That’s what none is. Cool.

Re: Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

stronglikedan wrote: post #16
ausbah wrote: post #6

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I don't see how that's relevant, considering we could already provide healthcare to all Americans simply by disbanding the corrupt Medicare and Medicaid bureaucracies and recouping the administration fees. And then do the same with welfare so we can get UBI. Hell, we'd probably save money in both cases.

> we could already provide healthcare to all Americans simply by disbanding the corrupt Medicare and Medicaid bureaucracies and recouping the administration fees

Source for this estimate?

> then do the same with welfare so we can get UBI

This is nonsense. Federal welfare spending is about $20k per capita [1]. You could get that to $30k by co-opting all state spending [2]. (And only in Alaska, Oregon and Hawaii.)

[1] https://usafacts.org/articles/how-much-money-does-the-govern...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_budgets

Re: Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system

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Post by apples_oranges »

ausbah wrote: post #6

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Tired of this kind of talk. Everybody is looking for a scapegoat. For some it's China, for others the billionaires, yet others suspect it's all the Jews' fault, or the European Union, or wokeness, or Donald Trump or or or.. sigh, it's not new, it's just boring, and it rarely leads to any good things.

Re: Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system

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Post by nrhrjrjrjtntbt »

anthonybsd wrote: post #11
dragonelite wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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You are thinking of Ashkenazi. Vast majority of Israeli jews are Mizrahi. This is in addition to 2 million Palestinians who are Israeli citizens and are doing just fine. Your hatred comes from ignorance.

Are they afforded the same rights as jewish israelis? What about Gazans and West Bank palestenians whose families came from elsewhere in the earlier Palestine and were driven out to these areas, now living in terrible conditions. For simplicity lets pretend it is Sep 2023 for this argument, as the conditions were terrible then, due to Israels policies.

Re: Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system

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Post by dbdoskey »

hmmokidk wrote: post #21
dbdoskey wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

None. The US money Israel receives is purely used for buying from US defense contractors. This is developed by purely Israeli defense contractors. The US leverages significant discounts on these Israeli developed systems compared to other countries. Also, the amount Israel gets is in the same ballpark as Egypt and Lebanon, but interesting that that is never mentioned?

So it goes from Us Citizens to the wealthy who sell the weapon systems. That’s what none is. Cool.

This article is about an Israeli developed system, so no US tax payer money was used. It is an off topic discussion to discuss your hatred for Israel. Maybe submit a different article about that, but it is off topic for this one.

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dbdoskey wrote: post #17
ausbah wrote: post #6

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None. The US money Israel receives is purely used for buying from US defense contractors. This is developed by purely Israeli defense contractors. The US leverages significant discounts on these Israeli developed systems compared to other countries. Also, the amount Israel gets is in the same ballpark as Egypt and Lebanon, but interesting that that is never mentioned?

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