Summary
The U.S. announced $5.9 billion in additional aid to Ukraine, including $2.5 billion in military support and $3.4 billion in budget assistance, as President Biden finalizes his term.
This brings total U.S. military aid since 2022 to $61.4 billion and budget aid to over $30 billion, supporting Ukraine’s government and military amid intensifying Russian attacks.
Biden emphasized the importance of continued support, though uncertainty looms under Trump, who has questioned U.S. involvement.
Treasury Secretary Yellen warned against cutting aid, calling Ukraine’s success vital to U.S. interests.
Send it all today or I guarantee you Trump will find some excuse to withdraw it.
Trump would never! /s
At least not as long as Zelensky helps Trump find
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WTF, they cut funding to the IRS, they could have easily increased funding and it would pay for itself.
They could literally afford to give everyone 2’000 dollars. You saw Trump do it to get reelected.
They just don’t want to. Never believe their budget resictions.
“We can’t afford it” = “We think not taxing corporations and billionaires is more important”
Too little, too late Biden. You played for Russia for your entire presidency.
Imagine 91.4 billion dollars going to the country that the tax payer money came from.
Imagine if the US didn’t do a lend-lease deal to the USSR during WWII… There wouldn’t be a Russia today. Most of Europe would be known as “Germany”. And Japan would be ruling most of the Pacific.
All this money spent in a war we helped create when a fraction of it would help erase homelessness; hunger; and education access for all Americans today.
The US helped invade Ukraine? Wild.
USA created NATO
NATO invaded Ukraine? Wild.
HAHAHAHA 😂😂 None of those are Ukraine.
Zu viel Brokkoli geraucht? Oder gab es Whataboutism im Sonderrabatt
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This trolls are becoming s*****er by the hour
I don’t know how many times this needs to be explained, but this is not money. It is not stacks of cash we could use to hand out to the homeless, or to rent them apartments.
This is war materiel. Artillery shells, vehicles, etc. It is assigned a dollar value. This is stuff we have sitting in warehouses, sometimes pretty old and in need of replacement anyway.
I’m no fan of the military industrial complex, but these donations could even be seen as a way to create American jobs in American factories, building modern replacements for what is being sent.
For most of this stuff it would cost more to dispose of than it does to send it to Ukraine. And when they send the old stuff, someone gets a job creating new stuff to replace it.
Well said. I’ve had countless conversations about this as well. Either people are too ignorant to understand military aid or are arguing in bad faith. It’s kind of insane how many upvotes these comments get.
Fuck you for spreading Nazi Russian propaganda.
You do know we can do more than one thing at time, right? Increase taxes on the rich, reduce subsidies for fossil fuels, those are just two off the top of my head. So, yes, strictly speaking you’re right that a certain amount can help offset things, but it doesn’t mean it needs to come from here.
Also, what do you mean by “we helped create”. Fairly certain the US didn’t tell Putin to go invade a sovereign country.
Oh do tell how we helped create this war. I can’t wait to hear this bullshit.
EDIT tick tock MFer… taps watch
Oh we did - by basically sitting on our hands
And good morning to you too. How’s the weather in Russia?
Just because I don’t like Zelensky consequently I am Russian? hahahaja
Of course I don’t, I just hope they pay you well.
Putin pays me very well, of course
I don’t have anything to add to that. Enjoy the new year, man :)
you too
Or you have every single hit released by Putin, including the Christmas special where you can see Elon Musk covered in jingle bells jumping around in the background.
Part of me thinks this could actually be a real thing.
Yeah…
It’s more russian sympathizer than a meme
You know what you are, otherwise you would have stuck to a hexbear or lemmy.ml user
Does this make you feel good spreading Russian propaganda?
Russia invaded Ukraine in a fascist land grab just like Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin at the beginning of WW2
To be fair Russia had been screaming for 8 years that if America didn’t stop messing around in Ukraine that it would force them to go to war. Wasn’t like they just one day woke up and decided to invade for no reason.
if America didn’t stop messing around in Ukraine
Ukraine, as a sovereign nation, has the right to associate with whomever they want. Russia being mad that a country formerly in their sphere has turned westward as a direct result of being consistently abused by Russia is not a fault of the United States.
I see what you are saying but it’s not unusual for powerful countries to not allow smaller countries around them to align with foreign powers. For example America has the Monroe Doctrine. Any country in North or South America tries to align with a European or Asian power America goes to war.
The Monroe doctrine is 200 years old. Anyone using it for an excuse to interfere in another nation’s foreign affairs is a clown.
The CIA worming its way into a country isn’t that country merely deciding to set their alliance in their favor.
So why didn’t he say that instead of this special military operation to de-nazify ukraine? wth was that?
He said both. Over and over again.
Well good news for Putin I guess, thanks to his stupidity NATO membership increased in size with Sweden and Finland joining and lots of other countries also looking at joining for protection from… Russia
He could have integrated Russia more deeply into Europe, with the gas pipelines and supply of energy, France/Macron was constantly saying that Russia should be more integrated into the EU… but then he did this and now I doubt in my lifetime we’ll see Russia be anything more than a pariah state
10 years ago Ukraine was already trying to get rid of corrupt Russia linked politicians. Ukraine wanting to join NATO is their own choice, because of Russia. It’s like a bully that bullies because their victim didn’t want to get bullied and tried to get help.
So yes, imperialism. But also very much colonialism. Putler seems to want to bring the Soviet union back.
This is a lie
Doing something wrong isn’t made better by threatening to do it first
Do you actually think they just send a load of cash to them?
I don’t know how many times this needs to be explained, but this is not money. It is not stacks of cash we could use to hand out to the homeless, or to rent them apartments.
This is war materiel. Artillery shells, vehicles, etc. It is assigned a dollar value. This is stuff we have sitting in warehouses, sometimes pretty old and in need of replacement anyway.
I’m no fan of the military industrial complex, but these donations could even be seen as a way to create American jobs in American factories, building modern replacements for what is being sent.
