US spending on war in Ukraine

 DC Daily Journal:

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The American public has been extremely upset about the Washington, D.C. Swamp spending countless billions of taxpayer dollars on a proxy war in Ukraine while there’s millions of Americans struggling to get by with exploding inflation, a worsening housing crisis, and an overall abysmal economy.

The estimates are that the U.S. taxpayers have been billed about $100 billion to Ukraine in the form of military assistance, financial assistance, and humanitarian aid assistance.

The awful part about that $100 billion bill, though, is that only about 2% of it has been for humanitarian aid. Meaning, the vast majority of it is just taxpayer dollars being spent to aid the Ukrainian government financially and militarily.

On that military front, there’s growing concerns that the United States is sacrificing its own military to build up the Ukrainian military in their war against the Russians.

A number of current and former military officials have even sounded the alarm about the overall health and preparedness of the United States military on Joe Biden’s watch.

Not only that, but the Biden regime’s National Security Council spokesman, John Kirby, is confessing that the United States is supporting the military efforts of Ukraine in their war against Russia at the expense of the strength of the United States military.
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The war in Ukraine has also been costly for Russia which has been exposed as a much weaker power than it appeared before invading Ukraine.  Before the war in Ukraine, Russia was seen as a more powerful military, but its operations in Ukraine have exposed a military weakness in both equipment and personnel.  Russia has also experienced a migration of military aged men to avoid the fighting in Ukraine.

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