Okay, so when you say secret, you’re talking about an estimate based on publicly available numbers?
You would like publicly available numbers to estimate a dollar amount for 100 arm sales for sales to Israel since October 7th? But we’ll call it a secret?
Got it.
That “secret”(shhh) number is:
14 million threshold multiplied by another estimate of 100 secret(shhh) below the threshold sales
Stick with me here, but we’re going to take that publicly available 14000000 and then we’re going to add two of those big circle things. Those are the zeros from the 100 estimated sales.
So we get 1400000000(whoa, look at all those circles!), or 1.4 billion dollars in estimated arms sales to Israel below the
5 months, an estimated 1.4 billion dollars in arms sales to Israeli from the US below the Congressional notification threshold in the past 5 months.
Phew!
It took you 3 hours of questions and me 1 minute to find the publicly available estimates(five to type this), but thank goodness we got it done.
What an incredibly not meaningless number that is totally significant and we can draw conclusions from, especially in the middle of a conflict we don’t know the resolution of that incorporates so many other factors and so much complexity.