How many billions has the US flushed down the toilet in this war.
My bet it that the US has spent more funds than Russia.
Of course XiJinBiden has spent a lot more US wealth than Russia has. Mrs. ‘Hairy Dancer’ needs to sock away a few more billions into the Swiss bank accounts. Those Paris shopping trips really dig into the budget!
We see conflicting reports as to how badly Russia's economy is affected by the Ukraine war.
Those reports which originate in Russian propaganda say Russia is doing just fine, thank you, indeed, Russia is doing better now than before the war!
Reports that originate in more independent sources tell a quite different story.
One came from a Wall Street Journal reporter saying Russians were indeed suffering, and he was immediately arrested and jailed, seemingly for the "crime" of telling the truth.
But is it really? Nobody in the public knows what to credit and what to discount.
It does seem pretty significant that Russia is said to be emptying its prisons to supply cannon-fodder for Ukraine.
As for US dollar expenditures, they are so far, far less per month or year, than the costs of our wars in, say, Iraq or Afghanistan.
As for potential other costs, such as the value of us teaching Russians how to fight and win against NATO, those are very hard to quantify, I'd think.
Those funds have kept Moscow out of Kyiv for over a year and maintained Ukrainian independence. I would say that that is money well spent.