Summary
The Biden administration announced $725 million in military aid to Ukraine, including Stinger missiles, anti-drone weapons, Himars munitions, and artillery shells.
The assistance aims to bolster Ukraine’s defenses ahead of Donald Trump’s presidency, as he has pledged to cut all aid and push for peace talks.
This package is part of a larger $7 billion effort to support Ukraine before Biden leaves office.
It includes measures like Atacms strikes into Russia and repealing restrictions on U.S. contractors repairing equipment in Ukraine.
Deliveries will be expedited through Pentagon stocks.
Just give them some nuclear warheads lolol. Climate is already fucked, might as well.
Just think of all the US schools and hospitals we could decide not to spend this money on.
While thinking of that, it’s also advisable to think of all the schools and hospitals ruined across the world, if all dictators should realize: “if you are big and have nuclear weapons, there is no international law - take what you want, treaties and borders are mere ink on paper”.
It is also worthwhile to compare the expenses in Ukraine to the US budget.
This hard-won assistance package (it was stuck in Congress for months) totals about 60 billion. Of that, about 7 billion actually goes to Ukraine as weapons - the rest goes into other purposes like humanitarian and economic aid, purchasing new weapons to replace the donated weapons, etc. A considerable part of the money never leaves US soil.
So, the number to compare against is either 7 (pure weapons) or 60 billion (all allocations permitted by the bill).
The US budget is 6 trillion. One trillion is 1000 billion.
This means that weapons to Ukraine form about 1 / 1000 (one promille) of the US budget, and the total volume of the bill (not limited to Ukraine) forms at most about 1 / 100 (one percent) of the US government budget.
Meanwhile, to put things in perspective, Ukraine is defending itself with approximately one half (50%) of its government budget, and Russia is attempting to conquer Ukraine with approximately one third (30%) of its government budget (likely to reach 40% in the next year).
Basically, while the sums are huge, US isn’t about to fall over from supporting Ukraine, but Russia is indeed going to fall over, sooner or later, from continuing to attack Ukraine, if other countries bother to support Ukraine somewhat. Which I trust they will.
They don’t just give them the money. It’s debt…
https://tradingeconomics.com/ukraine/external-debt
America is happy to supply weapons at a cost.
Ukraine is a massive supplier of grains around the world. People outside the US are humans too.
Oh I think it’s a good use of money. Sorry my irony is very subtle but my point is that if anyone is saying “that could have been a lot of schools and hospitals AMERICA FIRST” then my answer is that we would never have spent the money on that anyway because we suck.
Very correct
Soft targets for when Putin gets here
Do you legitimately believe that Russia is capable of a land invasion of the mainland USA?
Eventually, if unchecked. There was a whole movie about it.
Maybe we’ll even see a bit of that money at some point in the future
inhales copium
Edit: wait, do people actually read my comments as me wanting to get directly paid from that money? I did not expect that to be an unironical take, but I guess some actually express that sentiment?
To spell it more directly: maybe we’ll even see a bit of that money actually spent for the sake of Ukrainian soldiers that are fighting on the frontlines as opposed to lining the pockets of corrupt politicians, oligarchs and military brass
inhales more copium
Don’t worry I’m sure the next administration will get right on that.
Dude that’s the doomium cynicalis hose, not the copium hose.
Oh fuck, our copium budget has been cut too
No one is being given cash but that is a fact that people like you will continue to ignore. Unless you want to start getting paid in bullets and missiles by the government…
I would like our (that is, Ukrainian) soldiers to get some of those bullets and missiles before the money gets stolen off by the corrupt politicians. But I guess the most I can expect is for people to misread my comments.
