• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    1 year ago

    Isreal’s main exports are cutting-edge technology found nowhere else in the world. Russia’s main export is oil. Western and European Union countries were fine getting their oil elsewhere, but they absolutely do not want to give up advanced tech. Especially since there will always be other countries that don’t care and will continue trading anyway.

      • scorpionix@feddit.de
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        14
        ·
        1 year ago

        Mostly software based tech. Israel is leading in the field of “legal” spyware for example.

        • sqgl@beehaw.orgOP
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          7
          ·
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          I often hear of Bioscience “breakthroughs” from Israel which amount to nothing but hype.

          What military tech apart from Iron Dome? (which protects against crappy home made rockets)

          • livus@kbin.social
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            6
            ·
            1 year ago

            Israel sells billions worth of weapons a year, sometimes to repressive regimes like the Myanmar junta.

            It also innovates quite heavily in that space.

            I have been noticing a number of doctors mentioning a new kind of burn on children in Gaza. Israel routinely deploys new weapons there, and this may well be a new example of testing experimental weapons in Gaza

          • idiocracy@lemmy.zip
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            1 year ago

            search for Israeli Nobel prize winners.

            and multiple countries want to have their hand on iron dome including Ukraine so where ur going with this?

      • TheMongoose@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        1 year ago

        It’s security software - firewalls, VPNs, that sort of thing. It’s not that it’s not available anywhere else, but the Israeli stuff was always considered among the best before this conflict kicked off.

        • livus@kbin.social
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          6
          ·
          1 year ago

          It’s also weapons. Many of which are sold as “battle tested” because they were tested in Palestine.