I’m an American who loves this country and who loathes those who support draining its resources dry."
Then you should love supporting Ukraine.
The US military budget is circa $850 billion and its number one purpose is to deter bad people from doing bad things -- that's what "Peace through Strength" is all about.
But deterrence sometimes fails and the world is chock full of hungry two-bit tin-horn dictators just waiting for a weakness they can exploit to invade and conquer their neighbors.
One of those is Russia's Vlad the Invader and in February 2022 he saw enough weakness, stupidity and corruption in our President to defeat the deterrence value of our military and so he invaded Ukraine, again.
Ukraine is what happens when we look weak, and deterrence fails.
So is the attack on Israel and the CCP threat against Taiwan.
They are all connected and related by perceptions of our weakness.
The War on Terror cost us around $8 trillion over 20 years, or roughly $400 billion per year.
Ukraine is costing circa $55 billion per year and much of that is obsolete stuff that would be scrapped eventually anyway.
The Federal deficit totaled $3 trillion over the past two years, all of it the result of massive Democrat vote-buying schemes.
If we simply eliminate all the grift and corruption, then there will be plenty of money to pay for the essentials of government, beginning with restoring the deterrence value of our national defense assets.