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In Congress today, the war criminal who has starved, killed and maimed tens of thousands of Palestinians was given standing ovations and 70 applause breaks.
It wasn't the only thing that happened. Over 100 Democrats boycotted the address and thousands protested outside. Still, I think this cartoon captures the spectacle of what happened inside the building.
Just because YOU don't understand why the US maintains a foothold in the middle-east, doesn't mean we don't. Nor is the US state and corporations that massively benefit from keeping their "unsinkable aircraft carrier" (Israel) ignorant of it.
yet neither of you is able to produce an example of a single tangible benefit either US state or corpos get here...
The US "defense" industry is one of the primary drivers of the US economy. Just as an example, they made $138 Billion USD on the Iraq war alone., 2. Dick Cheney for example, was the US secretary of defense during the first war on Iraq, then the CEO of halliburton (a US weapons and energy company), then the "vice" president. He made millions off these wars, and shows a good intersection of why people consider the US state nothing but an arm or salesman for its weapons manufacturers.
Here's a good summary of the US companies profiting most from wars in the middle-east.
Its not just the military of course, there's a tight economic integration between the Israeli military and US police forces, sharing training, contracts, etc. I def recommend reading The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World for more on this.
Are we finally admitting that US invaded Iraq on behalf of Israel... some progress at last.
However, how is this benefit to the US? Some rich dudes making money that live in America benefited. Where is the benefit to the US geopolitically?
I was a fucking blunder.
It surely did benefit Israel though. And Israel wants us to invade Iran too.
Israel is economy is a size of a small US state, if stopped dealing with them tomorrow, nothing would happen to the US on global stage.
The US is a capitalist state, its government exists solely to serve the interests of its corporate class, and its defense industry is one of its most powerful. Look at its defense budgets, those spending bills are almost congress's main reason for existing.
Not for the US state and the corporations it serves. For them it was mission accomplished / everything is working correctly as intended.
This is probably pointless, since I already linked articles that show how many hundreds of billions in profit the US defense companies make.
US would lose a vital base for projecting its power in the middle east, so no, it doesn't want to close it down any more than it wants to shut down its other external 800+ military bases.