Slobber Ukraini!
And actually, we are not rich. We would need to find a suitcase with 33 Trillion in it before we could claim to be flat broke.
Moron.
US assets are ~$270 trillion, and we are ~16.8% of the world’s industrial base. Debts & obligations are about $146 trillion.
Total spending on Ukraine is about 0.3% of our GDP, with some of that 0.3% being new weapons replacing rather old weapons going to Ukraine. For example, the cluster munitions sent were supposed to be scrapped anyway, so we saved the significant cost of scrapping them. (That’s purely an economic argument, personally I’d rather fork over a bit more of my tax money and send something else.)
The real US spending problems are in social and domestic spending, and the acceleration of those:
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58888
What this is really about is manufacturing output. The US is #2, and the US and it’s allies are 16 of the top 20 manufacturing bases in the world. Russia is ~ #15 (sources vary slightly.) China is #1, but has little interest right now in actually PO’ing most of it’s top customers. India is #6 on the list, mostly consumed again by exports to US allies, or barely keeping it’s own population modestly (very) supplied. Brazil is #14 on most lists and in much the same position as India, just a little richer per capita (#79 vs. #139).