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Kudos to Oscar.

Resilient gentleman.

He could teach me a thing or two, I imagine.

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If Israel is supplying arms and weapons to every bullshit dictatorship in Central and South America, it would seem like it has a robust arms industry. Why then do they need so much ordnance from the U.S.?

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Ahh, Israel has Pegasus, Iron Dome, jets, nuclear weapons (600?), bullets, vests, tanks, but alas, they have dropped tens of thousands of bombs. The US diverted more child killers from UkroNaziLandia to Israel. The US has to scrape artillery shells from around the world to keep the death march they have set loose in Ukraine.

Israel is losing, but unfortuantely, they are leveling all of Gaza, using bombs and shells as Catepillar bulldozers.

What they do in Latin America is sell digital weapons, small arms, grenades, little bombs, C4, all of that, from their own perverted stocks and stores.

The "country"'s defense industry is dominated by three companies: Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), Rafael Advanced Defense Systems (both parastatals), and Elbit Systems. Israel has gone from being a net weapons importer to the world's 10th-largest arms exporter.

https://www.jns.org/israel-begins-shift-to-domestic-ammunition-production/#:~:text=In%20the%20wake%20of%20the,toward%20greater%20domestic%20ammunition%20production.

In the wake of the ongoing war against Hamas and its exposure of Israel's near total dependence on the United States to replenish its stocks of ammunition, Israel has begun shifting toward greater domestic ammunition production.

“The lesson from the war in Ukraine and against Hamas is identical: Israel must significantly increase the arsenal with which it enters the campaign,” a former defense official told JNS.

This includes a variety of arms, ranging from Iron Dome interceptors to sophisticated guided air-to-ground munitions and artillery shells. Tank shells could also be a candidate for domestic production.

Yet not everything can be moved to Israel. Military aircraft will continue to be made in the United States.

The cost of producing aircraft for a single military without exporting them to additional clients would make their production a financial non-starter for Israeli defense industries. Nor would the U.S. agree for Israel to begin competing with it in the global fighter aircraft market, as the 1980s Lavi jet project, which shut down for these reasons, demonstrated.

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I see. Well, this is all hellish and dispiriting stuff, but I thank you for your informative answer.

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It is hellish, but keep spirits high, that is, face forward, watch your back, side by side, we shall overcome in some epoc, some time in the future.

DF General Admits War Impossible Without US Support.

British journalist Owen Jones has stated that Biden’s action – facilitating “some of the worst crimes of our age” – could ultimately cause America’s downfall.

https://youtu.be/IHiljHjdx3k?si=eeP5d2h1VwgP6u2-

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