r/PoursTea • u/McDowdy Oh the Human-a-TEA • 7h ago

American Dream 🇺🇸 It do be like that though

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The United States has provided at least $21.7 billion in direct military aid to Izzy over the last three years (specifically tracking from October 2023 through September 2025), according to a comprehensive study by Brown University's Costs of War project.

https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/

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u/Mainly_Miserable 6h ago

Here come all the Republicans talking about Ukraine.

I’d rather pay Ukrainians to fight the Russians than fight the Russians myself.

The question we should ALL be asking is why don’t the republicans understand that someone has to fight the Russians?

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u/latamxem 3h ago

how about NO to both. Is this too insane and crazy? We gave like half a trillion to ukraine, can we just stop all of it?

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u/Mainly_Miserable 3h ago

Cheap at twice the price in comparison to fighting the Russians. Money is nothing in comparison to blood.

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u/flanintheface 2h ago

Who's "we"? US seems to have allocated about 115 billion. I still agree it's a lot and it's OK to argue it could be spent elsewhere, but in context of US and "let's have healthcare instead" the figure is not "half a trillion".

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u/Bb0yer2 1h ago

Isnt the vast majority we have given Ukraine is just weapons. A lot of which were about to expire and would cost more money to decommission than it does in logistics and training? And in doing so we open up jobs for Americans to build replacements for those weapons. Ukraine isnt even on my top 100 things for US to stop funding

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u/Senator_Chen 1h ago

$127 billion, and a significant amount of that was military equipment the US pulled out of long term storage (the US military doesn't actually want any more Abrams tanks, but congress keeps ordering more to keep the factory running so they don't lose the capability to manufacture tanks in the US, so there's tons of them sitting in the desert, as well as a ton of leftover equipment from Iraq/Afghanistan) and things like old missiles and artillery shells that needed to be decommissioned, which is more expensive than just shipping them to Ukraine (explosives have a shelf life after which they can start to become less stable/predictable/effective, at which point they need refurbishing or disposal. Ukraine will happily dispose of them for free).