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Do you have any evidence that it's of similar or greater magnitude to what Israel/AIPAC spend?
Or is this more "trust me bro" argumentation?
Ironically this Reddit user really took the public data and complied it for just a few of the Gulf States and compared it to the AIPAC money and welp it tells a story that is starkly different.
Here is another source with data of Gulf Coast funding.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/03/foreign-money-think-tanks-00196252
So yeah its a trust me bro and here are the receipts lol
Feel free to look at https://www.opensecrets.org/ they tend to have some of the most up to date data out there that can be tracked.
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Also do not forget the Gulf States funneling of money into American Universities and to President Trump like Qatar with a new Air Force 1
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That is interesting. Thanks for sharing
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People like Roth try to make it a black and white thing but this is politics and so that just isnt the case. A huge huge reason for dark money is the fact it is near impossible to track unless they want you to be able to track it.
Thus you have to look at what dark money is pushing as well as what these countries are doing in public that people might not think to tie back to trying to influence the government.
Hell I went to Texas A&M and am damn proud of it but Texas A&M Qatar has long been a huge question to me and well earlier this year when issues were brought up with it Texas A&M immediately moved to shutter the campus with it being complete by I think 2027.... they were letting the students who were already there graduate.
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It doesn't change my view about who's driving American military priorities.
Many of those countries are large recipients of foreign aid and it makes sense that they need to keep that gravy train rolling. I didn't know the magnitude was so great though.
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Interestingly enough US aid to Israel is $3.3 bil... however the largest purchases.... Saudi in first place at spending $3.35 bil while Kuwait is number two at $1.36 bil and the UAE is number 5 at $799 mil
Also the American Defense Industry also called the military complex employees multiple millions of Americans with well paying high income jobs esp. in manufacturing
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I am beginning to think that most of the foreign aid is nothing more than a circular laundry machine for the crooks here in congress, their associates and the mic. Some of it, just some of it, may rub off in the hands of the foreign crooks.
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Money is all traceable all the time. If it goes through any wire movement it can be seen. It can be seen through forensic accounting, too. It is only a question of how many resources you want to use tracking it down. The money is green and black not white and black, btw.
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Since it for one isnt illegal and two would cost likely 10s of millions to even attempt these things are dark and untraceable because no private citizen is going to attempt to do that. The countries and groups that participate in this would easily be tipped off and change tactics starting the investigation back at square one.
Also you do these things in gold if you really care about privacy and yeah 110% untraceable.
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No, it is trust Reddit, bro kind of argument.
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I just love these ad hominem attacks as substitutes for reasoning, don’t you?
They really work well for convincing your adversary.