but is only a bit more than 1 percent of the federal budget
"...And besides, it's almost all just getting funneled directly into our Military Industrial Complex so it doesn't really count anyway"
also lol, using the entire federal budget's not trying to be intentionally misleading at all, right? $80 billion is almost 10% of our non-defense discretionary budget
It's also 80B$ to do, what, exactly? Create a post-war Russia that's even more desperate and less stable, a much more destabilized Ukraine which will never recover and forever remain beholden to Western investors and increasingly austere IMF/World Bank measures.
"...And besides, it's almost all just getting funneled directly into our Military Industrial Complex so it doesn't really count anyway"
also lol, using the entire federal budget's not trying to be intentionally misleading at all, right? $80 billion is almost 10% of our non-defense discretionary budget
It's also 80B$ to do, what, exactly? Create a post-war Russia that's even more desperate and less stable, a much more destabilized Ukraine which will never recover and forever remain beholden to Western investors and increasingly austere IMF/World Bank measures.
There are lies, damned lies, and economists.
Isn't it all just accruing as debt too? It's 80 billion that the US doesn't actually have.
Dollar denoted debt is meaningless when you can just print dollars.
It would only cover the expiring SNAP supplement (helping 16 million Americans put food on the table) for a measly 3 years! Peanuts.