WHERE were these “journalists” raised>??
IN A CAVE BY BEARS & COYOTES???
does anyone think that just because your birth certificate says you’re American that your life has any value to these MIC monsters?
These neoCON MIC bloodthirsty warmongers are going to have to answer for their crimes when they’re standing before the Lord.
If we are going to be able to fight Communist China, then we need manufacturing, and 22 months ago our weapons and ammo manufacturing had gone dormant and had largely shut down and closed.
This Russian invasion really woke up the West and our Pacific allies, new factories are being built, and old and outdated stocks are being sent to Ukraine where they are used to destroy and use up the Russian military machinery, while we refill our warehouses with new stock and updated and modernized versions of what they are replacing.
Same old WW1 trope. So old it has moss growing on it.
Ukraine’s top ally in the US govt, GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell told CBS two months ago:
<><> “a significant portion of US billions in US foreign aid to Ukraine is US spent
<><>tax dollars are being spent in the United States and 38 different states,
<><>b/c we are replacing weapons we send to Ukraine with more modern weapons,
<><>ergo, we’re rebuilding our industrial base.”
REALITY CHECK-—A closer look at the numbers reveals
<><> an overwhelming majority of Ukraine foreign aid is going overseas
<><> and that US aid remains overseas.
<><>of the $113 billion US tax dollars already spent
<><>only a fraction has gone to “rebuilding our industrial base.”
According to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget:
<><>of the $113 billion tax dollars sent, $67 billion went to “military defense”
<><>Of that $67 billion, about $27 billion went to “drawdown replenishment,”
<><>meaning a skimpy $15 billion went to US military mfg.
<><>still another $18 billion tax dollars went to the “Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative,”
<><>nearly $5 billion more tax dollars went to other foreign military financing programs,
<><>plus another $2 billion tax dollars went to “other defense.”
Richard Stern budget analyst at the Heritage Foundation, broke down the numbers for The Federalist:
<><>the tax dollar billions we send Ukraine are not labeled “military support,”
<><>the billions are simply foreign aid money,
<><>this is cash US aid that Ukraine can do whatever it wants with
<><>none of that aid or cash has ever come back to the US in any way.”
Wapo: Yeah war is a racket, but that’s a good thing.
“Here is the best-kept secret about U.S. military aid to Ukraine: Most of the money is being spent here in the United States,” Thiessen wrote. “That’s right: Funds that lawmakers approve to arm Ukraine are not going directly to Ukraine but are being used stateside to build new weapons or to replace weapons sent to Kyiv from U.S. stockpiles.”
Thiessen goes on to admonish conservative lawmakers who’ve led the resistance against rubber-stamping unlimited aid to Ukraine.
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It’s not a “best-kept-secret”. We know that a big chunk of the money (that isn’t being laundered) is ultimately going to military-weapons manufacturers in the US. The Post (and Thiessen) should stop pretending to be smart.