Comment by throw310822

The military spending is a contrived explanation. If weapons manufacturers want that money, they can just lobby the government to buy more weapons from them, rather than to gift taxpayers money to another country so that it can buy them.

Besides, this would explain just a small fraction of what I mentioned above: what about the punishment of dissent, what about the UN vetoes- does that also hold for Egypt, South Korea or Jordan?

And what about the widespread censorship, originating from Israel and enacted by US social media, is that also related to oligarchs and military expenditure? Does Jordan get the same treatment?

And maybe the funniest part of this theory is that it tries to explain the disproportionate influence on the US of a foreign country by means of the money that the US is giving it for free. So if the US gave me, say, 4 billions per year (a pittance, really) I would get the privilege of influencing the US' politics more than Israel does today. For free!

Come on. Occam would like to have a word with you.