>>>>And your point is? .17% of ours is probably equal to the entire GNI of most european countires. The world is lucky you get anything from us, they take with one hand and bad-mouth with the other; if I had my way, foreign aid would dry up, the Arabs could eat their non-sellable oil for supper and the rest can go to hell. The problem is we don't have any politicians with the gonads to do anything about it.
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>>>Why would their oil be non-sellable?
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>>I meant non-sellable to us. We probably buy the majority of it anyway...
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>Not buying their oil sounds a bit infeasible to me. And ending foreign aid to strategic regions would most likely allow China and Russia to increase their influence in those regions, while deepsixing our own. Doesnt sound feasible to me either.

So it won't happen, and it will still not be called "buying influence", but the PC term "aid".