Further, if you want to see how all of these organizations interconnect - here you go.

It’s incomplete so the connections likely go deeper.

Higher quality: miro.com/app/board/uX...

The State Policy Network (SPN) is a literal web of right wing think tanks that span across all 50 states in an effort to push conservative policy to the forefront.

They’re responsible for securing extremists in the Republican party.

In fact, corporations pay for a seat on a “task force” that allows them to vote with elected officials to establish “model bills” that push conservative agendas.

They also…

• Worked with the Contras & Unitas Movement in the 80s to pressure communist governments, to the CIA, DIA, and NSC’s benefit.

• Received around $5M in funding from right wing billionaire Charles Koch’s organizations

• One of the most influential public policy research institutes

Let me break down who The Heritage Foundation really is because this actually goes a lot deeper than what it seems. They’re literally just the tip of the iceberg.

It’s a bit of a read, but it’s pretty important you understand just how integrated this coup is within our institutions.

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Similarly to the quantities not being concrete, the cost of individual weapons were also not always explicit.

So for example, I have the cost of a JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munition) at $25,000 per unit, when it could cost as much $84,000.

For example, no exact amount of Patriot Batteries was listed - so I estimated conservatively based on the word “extra” & guessed 3 batteries were sent considering ~1000 exist today.

This chart also does not include the ~12 Patriot batteries that already existed in Israel.

Just to clarify, all of the funding costs were based on the Wikipedia timeline of US Aid during the Gaza-Israeli “war”.

I’m attaching the list of funding I was able to identify to show how I came up with the $123.233B estimate.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...

If you add up all of the (disclosed) money that we’ve sent to Israel since 10/07/24, the total would be an estimated $123.233 billion.

I’ve compiled a graph to show how that funding measures up against some of the U.S. Budget + cost of social services in the U.S.

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