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Re:Israel, Cyprus and Greece agree to link power grids via s... by marshmallow_12 on Monday March 08, 2021 @09:58AM (#26386410)
here's a better link, i think (Sam i am).

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL33222.pdf

Re:Israel, Cyprus and Greece agree to link power grids via s... by solosoyokaze on Monday March 08, 2021 @10:00AM (#26386437)
Thanks. From the link:

In 2016, the U.S. and Israeli governments signed their third 10-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on military aid, covering FY2019 to FY2028. Under the terms of the MOU, the United States pledged to provide—subject to congressional appropriation—$38 billion in military aid ($33 billion in Foreign Military Financing grants plus $5 billion in missile defense appropriations) to Israel. This MOU followed a previous $30 billion 10-year agreement, which ran through FY2018.

Re:Israel, Cyprus and Greece agree to link power grids via s... by yostrovs on Monday March 08, 2021 @03:22PM (#26390987)
Israel and Egypt are always pointed to as recipients of greatest US aid. But that is only because the US military that is stationed in South Korea, Japan, and a bunch of other countries is not counted as aid. And all that military is very expensive, like in the tens of billions or maybe even hundreds. I don't know how much it costs to maintain an aircraft carrier fleet to protect the Arabs from the Persians.
Re:Israel, Cyprus and Greece agree to link power grids via s... by yostrovs on Monday March 08, 2021 @03:26PM (#26391052)
And on a similar note, when comparing overall spending on the military, the perception of the size of the US military is inflated because in China and many other countries there's a draft, so they pay their soldiers next to nothing while the US has to pay theirs a prevailing wage, which is somewhere around the highest in the world.
Re:Israel, Cyprus and Greece agree to link power grids via s... by marshmallow_12 on Monday March 08, 2021 @10:16AM (#26386593)
My pleasure! Always happy to discuss facts.