Why does this arrangement exist? I never understood this. Why not just not have a middleman?
Tangentially, it is really disgusting how Israel has become a bleeding edge innovation hub for all the worst kinds of military and cyberwarfare stuff. I guess having Israel be the salesperson for this kind of shit gives US plausible deniability. I hate Israel. Literally destruction and misanthrophy sublimated into the form of an ethnostate.
They can't sell weapons to China while pretending to think China is preparing for war against them and falsely accusing them of genocide.
They also can't stop supplying weapons to Israel while it's an important colonial outpost and they insist it's a shining democracy that must be protected.
Israel knows this and gets to play both sides a bit, which China uses to get access to western weapons. It's cynical geopolitics.
Why does this arrangement exist? I never understood this. Why not just not have a middleman?
Tangentially, it is really disgusting how Israel has become a bleeding edge innovation hub for all the worst kinds of military and cyberwarfare stuff. I guess having Israel be the salesperson for this kind of shit gives US plausible deniability. I hate Israel. Literally destruction and misanthrophy sublimated into the form of an ethnostate.
They can't sell weapons to China while pretending to think China is preparing for war against them and falsely accusing them of genocide.
They also can't stop supplying weapons to Israel while it's an important colonial outpost and they insist it's a shining democracy that must be protected.
Israel knows this and gets to play both sides a bit, which China uses to get access to western weapons. It's cynical geopolitics.