No, but the US currently gives Israel $3.8 billion/year for military funding even though Israel is a wealthy country that frequently runs a budget surplus. The Iron Dome would have to be fired 250,000+ times to go through a single year of the US's donations alone, so the strategy would effectively be plinking away at the US's money.
No, but the [US currently gives Israel $3.8 billion/year for military funding](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-israel-statement-idUSKCN11K2CI) even though Israel is a wealthy country that frequently runs a budget surplus. The Iron Dome would have to be fired 250,000+ times to go through a single year of the US's donations alone, so the strategy would effectively be plinking away at the US's money.
Do you think Israel is a U.S proxy?