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Why are you not questioning the defense budget then? Aid like this is mutually beneficial. Countries get free medicine, US gets favorable trade deals, the money spent stays with US companies and flows down to US taxpayers in terms of wages and taxes the companies making the drugs pay back. But if you think that’s not beneficial, then why do we need trillions every year for defense?



This is not a direct response, but as an aside, defense spending really has fallen in recent decades. It's not the War on Terror days anymore: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?locat...




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