Whose “treasure” has not been worth it?
Putin’s certainly has been wasted, but the US military expenditures have most certainly been worth it.
Only to the extent that it stopped Putin from taking over Ukraine. But there is very little in Ukraine right now worth taking over. Rich farm land destroyed. Children kidnapped and indoctrinated to hate their heritage. Factories and cities in ruins. That means more treasure from somewhere rebuilding it as it was before the war. Guess whose. Had Putin just left it alone, he might have economically dominated a rich country without anyone noticing or caring. But instead he destroyed both Russia and Ukraine. Then there’s also all the dead people.
But the US military did learn all sorts of uses for drones, and one of the most anti-Semitic cultures in the world outside the Middle East now has a Jewish national hero. His statue will be right next to Chmelnicki’s and Banderas’ in Kiev. Well, that’s something anyway.