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(03-31-2023, 08:11 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: 76.8 billion dollars we sent to Ukraine

We didn't send $76.8b to Ukraine. 

A large portion of aid sent to Ukraine is pre-existing military equipment, a lot of which was already being phased out. A prime example is we sent a couple hundred APCs from the 60s-70s from our National Guards' inventories. Old equipment that was being phased out of even the second tier priority of our military, but was currently still needing to have money spend on maintaining them. The M1 Abrams tanks they're sending? They're the M1A1s, which were made in 1985-1992. They're still quality main battle tanks, but they aren't our modern tanks at all. Yet 31 of them is considered $400m in aid on it's own. They've sent 109 Bradley M2A2s, but again those are vehicles made in the 90s. We have A3s and A4s, and even they are looking at being replaced by a completely new vehicle soon.

The aid packages also includes things like the cost of deploying US troops to Eastern Europe countries (billions), that were going to happen regardless once Russia moved because of our NATO responsibilities. Or the cost of running our satellites to provide Ukraine military intelligence (billions), yet another thing we were going to do regardless, but they figured out a way to bill it under Ukraine aid. Or so they can buy weapon systems from US defense contractors, which is work for people in the US and money for people in the US that will never see Ukraine. The aid even includes paying back the US government to replenish donated ammunition.

The actual amount of monetary aid the US has sent to Ukraine is a fraction of that number, and largely based around a mixture of humanitarian aid and making sure the country with the ~2nd largest grain export in the world doesn't collapse economically because it will cause hundreds of millions of people in the world to face famine.