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https://www.ukraineoversight.gov/Funding/ Here's the Congressional Budget Justification for FY-2026 if you wanna dig in https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/FY-2026-Sta... Total Appropriated: $195.03 billion Total Obligated: $177.76 billion Total Disbursed: $116.02 billion
This does not look to be “military” spending on Ukraine, it’s all spending.
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Any large government project in Egypt is a project of the Egyptian military. That’s the result of being under a military dictatorship with a fake civilian president.
A state of affairs you can thank the US for. Besides Israel and, as of recently, Ukraine, Egypt is the biggest receiver of US military "assistance". Most military officials have attended elite U.S. military academies and the two forces work closely together. The 2011 revolution successfully outed Hosni Mubarak (another Egyptian dictator propped up by the US). Following the 2012 elections came the 2013 coup by Sisi. E…
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https://www.ukraineoversight.gov/Funding/ Here's the Congressional Budget Justification for FY-2026 if you wanna dig in https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/FY-2026-Sta... Total Appropriated: $195.03 billion Total Obligated: $177.76 billion Total Disbursed: $116.02 billion
This does not look to be “military” spending on Ukraine, it’s all spending.
Also the distinction seems silly for a country in total war. Funding their medical or food system or whatever means they can re-allocate money to defense
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Any large government project in Egypt is a project of the Egyptian military. That’s the result of being under a military dictatorship with a fake civilian president.
A state of affairs you can thank the US for. Besides Israel and, as of recently, Ukraine, Egypt is the biggest receiver of US military "assistance". Most military officials have attended elite U.S. military academies and the two forces work closely together. The 2011 revolution successfully outed Hosni Mubarak (another Egyptian dictator propped up by the US). Following the 2012 elections came the 2013 coup by Sisi. E…
Egypt was a military dictatorship long before they were American allies. You can thank Nasser for that. Repproachment with Egypt in the 1970s was a diplomatic effort to stop the fighting between the Arabs and Israel, and to win over a Soviet ally.
The US supported the democratic movement and even helped ease the way. In fact, alot of Middle Eastern countries are still resentful for American support of the Arab Spring. But it couldn't stop, and admittedly wasn't particularly interested in stopping, the regression back to a military dictatorship in Egypt given the elected president was about as democratic as Turkish president Erdogan. But it never intervened, AFAIU, because while dysfunctional, Egypt is relatively stable from an international perspective and a reliable-enough American ally either way.
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Yes, you may have to update your knowledge on the insane infrastructure boom going on in India right now.
And, they aren't doing in sustainable way, worst than China.
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The revolution that overthrew a US-backed authoritarian lead to a democratic election. The results of that election were thrown out the window when another coup brought in another US-backed authoritarian > Besides, your sources need to be updated as you seem to believe that Ukraine is within top 3 receivers of the US military aid, and it's definitely not true. As of 2026 Q2, the U.S. disbursed over $116 billion in ai…
The results of that election were thrown out the window Might be good to mention the result of that election were Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood (the originator of many jihadist movements like Al-Qaeda).
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And that vague connection justifies what exactly ?
The parent correctly noted that the elected president represented ideology with ideals of is violent theocracy, and he almost immediately started powergrabbing, trying to gain non-supervised judicial and legislative powers in addition to executive. How vague is that? I don't know, to me it looks rather clear that this was a path from one authoritarianism to another.
The Brookings Institute even rated him with the Polity Index (which goes from -10 to +10 with -10 being autocratic and +10 being democratic) and concluded he got between a 2 and a 4.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/was-mohammed-morsi-really...
Notably, unlike the current US-backed regime, he did not repress or imprison opponents.
I'm obviously not a fan of either leaders but it's absurd to suggest he did anything that justified ending a democracy.
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Have you ever dealt with metallic sodium? You are dramatically underestimating how dangerous it is at scale. Hard no.
I do love GP's excitement about the energy potential of violent exothermic reaction upon contact with water ... and the proposal mere sentences later to ship industrial quantities thereof on creaky old ships