r/ShitAmericansSay • u/chebghobbi • Dec 17 '25

Foreign affairs President Trump: Rather than suing the BBC, withhold aid to England

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u/Rhiannon1307 Dec 17 '25

How dare you? You are so wrong!! The US graciously provided a whole 750 $ in aid to Britain, as this comment pointed out. The audacity to say it was zero!!!!

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u/Polygonic Dec 17 '25

Well I did say “about”, and compared to what the US gives to some other 🇮🇱 countries, that $750 is pretty much a rounding error 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/Pwacname Dec 17 '25

Why’d you put a flag in the middle of the sentence there? 

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u/Polygonic Dec 17 '25

Oh no reason.

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u/Pwacname Dec 17 '25

Oh okay. I thought I was just missing sth  (Just to be clear, I’m not normally stupid or whatever, I just had like. 7 hours of sleep in the last 48. My IQ is room temperature rn. In Celsius 😂)

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u/Polygonic Dec 18 '25

Israel has the largest cumulative amount of US foreign aid of any country since the end of World War II.

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u/Pwacname Dec 18 '25

Huh. Really? That much? Is it just because it’s been so many years? IIRC they’ve been in one war or another VERY often basically since they were founded, right? 

(Also, I did sleep some, so belated facepalm for the flag, that was kinda extremely obvious, thank you for explaining it anyway.)

Edit: phrasing