So there’s lend-lease. It worked for Britain while their ships were being torpedoed by U-boats. This gifting crap invites corruption and is getting on my f@#$ing nerves.
I believe some of this is to be paid back in the future.
The numbers you see are not as pure as people think, we are cagey also.
A lot of that money never leaves America and we are dumping a lot of near-expiration date armaments that we would have to pay the environmental companies to destroy, instead, we send them to Ukraine listed at full retail cost, when actually we were going to have to mark them at zero and then pay to have them destroyed.
The replacement of the old with the new rejuvenates our sluggish weapons companies, creates work for our people, and better prepares our future defenses.