Rules-based international order: US and Israel exempted?
US officials are so fond of claiming that their country and the West stand for a rules-based international order β but one only they can correctly interpret.
Israel’s horrible war against Hamas certainly exposes the fact that the US is exempted from following such rules-based order β remember its Afghanistan and Iraq wars, among others?
So is the tiny Israel, which could not have grown to be a superpower in the Middle East if not for the $159 billion that the US has given it since its creation in 1946 to 2023. As that figure is not adjusted for inflation, it is bigger than the $173 billion US Marshall Plan that helped Europe recover from the ashes of World War 2. Indeed, the US defense industry has had a steady market for its weapons, with the American Congress having allocated since 1948 $3.3 billion yearly in military aid to Israel.
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