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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Our "allies" have been exploiting our internal politics and corrupt politicians to drive their preferred outcome going back to Korea.

Foreign lobbying from any given country could be banned any time they wanted to, of course, and they do so when it suits US imperial interests. Much of the money that does come through is just recycled US "aid" and US NGO directed.

And if legalized bribery is corruption (it is of course) then every major US politician is corrupt (they are of course).

The fact that we are paying INFINITE money to protect foreigners while they perpetrate a genocide, and Americans in North Carolina are told to suck a dick by their own government they pay taxes to proves which state is the vassal (Israelis also get universal healthcare on our dime).

It shows how much more interested the US state is in maximalist imperial domination than in helping its people domestically. If we start doing a full accounting of who is really paying for what, it will be a grand transfer from the global south to the north at gunpoint. Israel is one of those guns.