You can look those numbers up yourself, just google "What was the total cost of the US War on Terror" and the answer comes back as $8 trillion over 20 years, which, simple math, averages to $400 billion per year.
Of course, that is the entire War on Terror, not just the one little Afghanistan theater.
ransomnote: "The rest - you just swap the context, you’re basically using what I write and swapping the words Russia and Ukraine....while accusing ME of doing this."
Right, that's just what I did, because you make absurd accusations to me, I simply mirror imaged your own words so you can see how ridiculous they sound.
Do you understand my point here?
ransomnote: "THe Ukraine is lost.
It means NATO’s latest bid for regime change and world dominion is lost.
If Ukraine were doing as well as you claim, support would not be withdrawn.
Mercifully, the senseless killing will stop soon.
Can’t happen soon enough."
The war will end the moment Vlad the Invader orders his orcs to halt murdering, pillaging and raping in Ukraine, and to return home to Russia's recognized borders.
Baring that, I don't expect Ukrainians to ever give up, though without substantial Western aid, their fight will become increasingly desperate.
I predict: the US Congress will approve more Ukraine aid, after it's extracted some concessions from Democrats, and after Europeans step with more aid as well.
As Yogi Berra used to say: this ain't over until it's over.