When are we ever going to find out how much money actually went to Ukraine? Manchin nixed Biden’s funding, so he was skimming most of that money for his domestic budget. When are we going to stop giving all this money to russia?
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled GROK AI confirms President Trump's statements that the US no longer provides funds to Ukraine. All funds spent now are from prior Congressional Appropriations - no new ones planned, nickcarraway wrote: When are we ever going to find out how much money actually went to Ukraine? Manchin nixed Biden’s funding, so he was skimming most of that money for his domestic budget. When are we going to stop giving all this money to russia?
It looks like Trump stopped the disbursement of Biden military spending - some money was already in NATO/Z hands. I think Trump would allow disbursements of Biden funds to protect civilians (defensive-air defense) but I don't know that he's allowed any 'draw downs' (requests made to our military to which is attached a cost equivalent. Not pallets of cash, but draw downs of US military spending.
Trump said the US provide $350 billion to Ukraine, and he may have been counting the funneling of funds through USAID and other corrupt NGO's rerouting gov funds. Before Trump said that, the value was placed in the $185 billion range in appropriations from Congress. Now NATO and MSM are implying Trump lied about the $350 billion.
Elon Musk found that the US Treasury had withdrawals of billions without any annotation of who took it and for what purpose. That likely included Ukraine. And then DARPA Black Ops doesn't have to report spending to Congress. So we'll never know the true amount.
Trump did stop it. Just requiring authorization and standard information on Treasury disbursements stopped some of it. Trump cut the USAID and has the power to stop the DARPA funding too.
NATO is trying to imply US is active because they are trying to start a war and if Trump doesn't 'help' fight it for them, NATO will claim the US ran for cover and wouldn't live up to its obligations. That's why the MSM and G7 talking heads stress that "Trump sent more weapons to Ukraine!"
In reality, NATO is broke, can't spend enough to be fair in NATO funding, and now must provide Humanitarian aid, budgetary aid, military aid, and reconstruction funds in Ukraine. LEFT HOLDING THE BAG for the proxy war they started with the help of the Clintons and US STate Department.
This is why I'm disgusted every time Zelensky says he can fight to 2030 or something like that. Still wants to keep fighting. It's fine for him as he's not paying for it and he's not dying for it. If others fight/die/pay for it, Zelensky will drag this war out forever.