Proving anyone with half a brain can be president...
Military aid to Ukraine is very misunderstood because military accounting is faulty and good people don’t know that.
When the military acquires an artillery rocket with a 40-year expiration date in 1984 for $2000 then they will record its value as purchase price * inflation for all these years until the decommission date.
This rocket might be listed as $10,000 in the year 2023 and will turn to -$1,000 the next year because it costs $1,000 to decommission it.
That is illogical, but that’s how they do their accounting.
If you give this rocket to Ukraine now then it records as a $10,000 donation and you’ve rid yourself of that rocket. If you wait until the next year then you have a $1,000 liability because you have to destroy the expired artillery rocket.
... to clarify. I took the decommissioning cost - $1,000 - from an M26 artillery rocket. That’s how much it costs to destroy it.
Other costs I didn’t check and just made up examples as a concept.
Even with only looking at the M26 rocket - it will likely cost something like $30 to transport it to Ukraine and $1,000 to destroy it. You gain $970 for every rocket and it is likely to be recorded as a huge donation.