Zeepers post that this is good for our economy because U.S. armament manufacturers have work."
Total US aid authorized for Ukraine since February 2022 is said to be $113 billion.
Of that, roughly half is military hardware shipped from old stocks of reserved or obsolete equipment.
The authorized costs then are to build new US equipment to replace the old stuff shipped to Ukraine.
The other half was humanitarian and financial aid to Ukraine, much of which may also have gone to purchase American goods (i.e., food, infrastructure equipment) and services.
This $14 billion from the World Bank is a loan, not charity from the US taxpayers.
By the way, as of March 2023, the total cost of reconstruction of Ukraine from war-related damages was put at $411 billion.
I think that amount is roughly the value of Vladimir Putin's personal checking accounts now frozen in banks in Switzerland & elsewhere.
Naturally such banks are reluctant to seize Putin's money for reparations payments to Ukraine, at least until after Putin is convicted of war crimes in the Hague.
bimboeruption: "I haven’t seen any evidence of this when I buy food or gas or anything else and aren’t homeless Vets still living in cardboard boxes under bridges and huddled in sleeping bags on streets?"
Turns out, there's an amazingly simple and quick way to solve the homeless problem, as was demonstrated in San Francisco just recently.
All it took was a visit from Communist China's Pres. Xi and miraculously, San Francisco was quickly restored to something resembling its past **glory**.
So, we need only invite the Communist dictator to visit every US city with a homeless problem and, in the blink of an eye, the problem will be solved.
Sadly, I don't think that solution is necessarily permanent, so we may have to invite Xi to come visit again at regular intervals.
Still, it might be worth it, do you agree?