Think this post I wrote yesterday is relevant to this post.
The $5 Trillion Truth They Don’t Want You to Calculate
In 2002, the Christian Science Monitor published economist Thomas Stauffer’s report showing that U.S. support for Israel since 1973 had cost $1.6 trillion — not just in direct aid, but in loan write-offs, oil embargo losses, and side payments to Egypt and Jordan. That figure was in 2001 dollars.
Adjusted for inflation, that’s $2.9 trillion today — before counting the last 22 years of wars and subsidies. Using Stauffer’s own yearly average ($55B in 2001 dollars) and extending to 2025, the total cost reaches $5.1 trillion in today’s money. That’s roughly $15,000 per American.
Meanwhile, official records from the Congressional Research Service show $174B in nominal aid (about $300B inflation-adjusted) sent directly to Israel since 1948 — a fraction of the real total once you factor in side deals, war fallout, and loan guarantees.
Stauffer’s broader method included every economic shock caused by Washington’s unwavering alignment with Israel: the 1973 oil embargo, U.S. military resupply costs, and foreign aid “bribes” to stabilize countries affected by Israeli policy.
After 9/11, those costs multiplied. The U.S. launched wars aligned with Israel’s 1996 “Clean Break” doctrine, crafted by American neoconservatives like Richard Perle and Douglas Feith, advocating regime change in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, and Iran. Brown University’s “Costs of War” project puts total U.S. regional war costs past $8 trillion. Even attributing a fraction of that to Israel-linked policy influence adds another trillion or two to Stauffer’s equation.
Then there’s the financial web:
•Israel Bonds—over $40B sold since 1951, with at least $1.6B held by U.S. state treasuries and pension funds.
•Carbyne and the surveillance tech boom—co-founded by Israeli ex–PM Ehud Barak with Epstein-linked capital—exploiting the Patriot Act to legally spy on Americans.
•And now, another $14B in U.S. military funding to Israel in 2024, even amid civilian bombings in Gaza and Lebanon.
The bottom line: depending on what you include, Israel has cost the U.S. between $3 trillion and $5 trillion in 2025 dollars. Yet Americans are told we can’t afford healthcare, housing, or debt relief—while our taxes bankroll a foreign state that censors our media, spies on our people, and drags us into endless wars.
Half a century of blank checks, oil shocks, and “shared values” have left one undeniable truth: this alliance hasn’t served American interests—it’s drained them.
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