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  You could buy every homelessperson in America an averageAmerican house - paid off, in full, in cash, and it would cost less than 20% of this year's defense budget. 
  582,000 homeless * $275,000 house= $160,050,000,000. (160 billion dollars) 
  160/858 = 18%
context: Oh you need some gun, missiles, and tanks?  Here's a bunch of stuff from my closet, we weren't going to use it anyways. >
  
  Well, we were, unfortunately it's outdated by our standards but was designed to kick Russia's ass in the Cold War era, which is perfect because they haven't advanced their capabilities at all since then. >
  
  The difference between "we built one of these things, lets show off how awesome we are" and "ooooo shiny new toy, let's order 10,000 as a trial run" >
  
  This is closer to a friend saying "Hey I made too much casserole out of some leftovers, wanna come over and take some off my hands?" >
  
  Even closer to that friend who is really into fishing. And is getting rid of old stock in his freezer to make room for this year's catch >
  
  Great.  Israel has wherewithal to defend itself so no pain to them and Ukraine will receive much needed aid to fight off Russian. >
  
  Was it meant for Israel to use? I figured they kept it there for their ships to pick up for quick use if they need to run through the Suez and into the Red Sea with said arms or go over land to Iraq or go use it on Syria >
  
  I should have worded better.  Yeah, the supplies are not for Israelis to use but for American military personnel to use in case of trouble in Middle East.
  Edit:  In case of emergency Israelis are allowed to use it. >
  
  The article stated the US has let them use weapons from this stash in the past >
  
  That I was not aware.  Thanks for the info. >
  
  This is a good thing, we should have done this a long time ago though >
  
  Unfortunately Israel is toeing an annoying line between angering Moscow and angering Washington, all so they can have more unfettered access to Syria to harass Iran, even though Iran is helping Russia. It's a convoluted mess.
  It's a good thing Israel chose to let the US use their own stockpile to send to Ukraine. >
  
  You're not portraying Israel's side of this very fairly. Russia allows Israel to strike Iranian assets in Syria, and this helps to prevent (relatively) advanced weapons and supplies from being provided through this route to Hezbollah, a group that dominates Lebanon and is hostile to Israel. If Israel sours things with Moscow, that could directly mean bigger, longer ranged, and more advanced weapons rain down on their cities the next time a conflict happens with Hezbollah, even worse than last time in 2006. It's also probable that leaving this unchecked allows more weapons to reach Hamas, which regularly strikes civilian targets in Israel with rockets. 
  I'm not saying Israel never does anything bad. I'm just saying it's not really fair to call it "harassing Iran". >
  
  the US just has a random stockpile of weapons in Israel? I thought it was crazy when the US sent them soviet tanks and soviet equipment.. I mean how did they even get that? This is crazy