$105 billion for more war. Imagine how many homeless could be housed in the US. But it is all going for nothing. Wasted and stolen as with the COVID "relief" money that fueled hyperinflation. Approximately $200 billion of the COVID funds are the subject of fraud investigations. It will take generations to undo the harm of what was effectively a bribe for votes. And Putin is going to roll over other countries when he can't even take over a few regions of Ukraine? LOL. Fearmongering. Time to duck and cover like it is 1954.
Imagine how many more people would choose to go homeless for a bit if they could get free housing from the government?
Give Russia a taste os success and you might be surprised what they could accomplish.
How can Hitler be a threat to Europe when he couldn't even hold Munich in 1923? How could Russia be a threat to Germany when it couldn't even take Finland in 1939?
America has been spending billions over the years since the 1940's to keep Europe free of Russia. If we want continue that, we either need to continue to spend money on our military, or helping Ukraine. I say a billion dollars spent on Ukraine gives a lot more 'Bank for the Buck' than spending on our military. Three times as much? Five times as much? I don't know, but clearly a more efficient way of dealing with Russia.
Need to cut down on spending? Fine. Cut out some spending on our military. Reduce the number of army divisions we maintain by one. But don't cut aid to Ukraine. That money is not wasted. It saves a great deal of money we would need to hold the Baltic states if Russia takes over Ukraine and is now looking for more glory.
In 2021, the U. S. Defense budget was 700 billion dollars. In the last 18 months we have spent about 75 billion helping Ukraine. So about 50 billion per year. Or 7 per cent of our defense budget. What threat are we mostly spending money on? China and Russia. With just an increase of 7 per cent, we are dealing with one of our two great threats. It's a bargain by any measure. If we could do the same with China, pin down China in a forever war with Taiwan, we could greatly reduce the spending on our military. We wouldn't need nearly 700 billion a year for our military if both China and Russia ceased to be such a continuous threat.
This might get us involved in a 'Forever war'? I see no problem with that. We can easily exceed Russian production indefinitely. The amount of money we save by not doing that for a year or two would be small compared to the money needed to hold the Baltic States from an encouraged Russia.
