As far as I know nothing is stopping you from either donating to funds that help Ukraine or directly paying Ukraine or actually going over there to fight for Ukraine. What should be unacceptable with no declaration of war by our legistators, is stealing money from citizens to pay Ukraine. I would have not issue with “leaders” setting up private funds to make it easier to citizens to donate or ways to participate.
I’m not quite so libertarian as all that, but 40 billion? Did Britain get the equivalent of $40 billion in lend-lease from the US against Hitler? Sure. Some aid to Ukraine would be a good investment to help contain the Russian threat to Europe and a potential world war, and also deter China from invading Taiwan. But not that much. And announcing publicly that fracking, oil drilling and natural gas production are back on would go a lot further to stop Putin than expensive toys to Ukraine.
Zelensky has done remarkably well against his giant neighbor on a shoe-string budget. Such things as hobby-store drones flying over tanks and dropping Molotov cocktails through the open hatches were ingenious and simple. He should get more resources, because Ukraine’s got game, and because their adversary is a threat to much more than Ukraine.
But babies in America going without formula should be on the front burner, too. So should the proliferation of human trafficking and Fen-fen. And fixing the border and inflation.
The mid-terms can’t happen soon enough.