Jack Albrecht
1 min readOct 13, 2023

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Interesting. If that is how you defined "sponsored" then by YOUR definition, the US is the largest "state sponsor of terrorism" in the world, by probably and order of magnitude.

We (US taxpayers) provide huge military aid to Israel. Israel has been committing war crimes for decades in building settlements on occupied territory.

Egypt, right next door to Israel, is a military dictatorship known for human rights abuses and also gets a shitton of military aid from us.

https://www.statista.com/chart/26641/us-military-aid-obligations-by-country/

The list of countries the US has sold weapons to is very long (58). https://www.statista.com/statistics/248552/us-arms-exports-by-country/

We sold weapons to Russia in 2022. The irony.

According to YOUR logic, if Russia committed war crimes in Ukraine the US is a state-sponsor of terror in Ukraine.

These are of course only the countries we admit to selling to. It doesn't include US advisors, troops, CIA bases, etc.

IMO such a designation of "state sponsor of terrorism" is facile and just another label we (the US) use so arbitrarily to taint adversaries that the pejorative is somewhat meaningless.

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Jack Albrecht
Jack Albrecht

Written by Jack Albrecht

US expatriate living in the EU; seeing the world from both sides of the Atlantic.

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