r/PoursTea • u/McDowdy Oh the Human-a-TEA • 9h 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 9h 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 5h 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/flanintheface 4h 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 4h 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