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[-] alienanimals@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

During the course of the entire war, the US has spent $175 billion helping Ukraine. This might sound like a lot until you realize that in just a single year, the US' federal budget is $6.5 trillion. So even if we paid for everything all at once, there's still $6.32 trillion left this year.

Not to mention most of the money goes back into the American economy. We are spending money on weapons that are largely sitting in warehouses that we would otherwise need to be replaced. Weapons don't last forever. So for pennies on the dollar we are saving Ukrainian cities from being "liberated" by our cold war enemy that never stopped being our cold war enemy. Sounds like a great investment to me.

[-] TheClockStruck13@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago

Yea the idea of “oh we get the money back” or “we have weapons lying around” isn’t selling it to me.

Also, Russia has nukes… we shouldn’t be tempting WW3. The whole thing is eff’d

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