Ukraine is totally corrupt - no one knows where the money from USA goes. Ukraians are fleeing the country and 350k to 400k of their countrymen dead or seriously wounded, it is just a matter of time before what’s left collapses. Neither Zalynski or the Biden administration care about the Ukranian people and that’s why there are only 19 million people left.
Mostly we send old weapons that the Russian tools and trolls claim have been destroyed 3 times over. Pretty obviously, few are leaving Ukraine.
IMO we should send the full amount Biden wants, in weapons, mostly old weapons, and maybe a few billion in humanitarian materials and goods. The Euros can handle the financial support.
US defense expenditures now nearly match our all time low post 1940. (~2.7% in 1998-1999. It was ~2.1% in 1940 — we know where THAT got us, 41+ % by 1945.) So, the actual appropriations less transport to Ukraine, training, and those humanitarian goods, should go into new weapons and weapons plants. In fact, that’s actually where the bulk of the “Ukraine money” ends up now.
I’m sure this post will bring out an anti-MIC reply or two. Those persons are just nuts or ignorant.
Nice graph:
https://media.defense.gov/2019/Mar/12/2002099941/-1/-1/0/190312-D-ZZ999-001.JPG
