Sounded strange with planes flying into the towers.

Meh. Someone needs to be brave enough to normalize it.

The reason is the same as why it is more profitable to support a neighbor who is fighting off robbers, rather than robbers who are planning to come to you later.

Because I don't want my family pictures to look like yours:

No you don't understand, they are supporting the death of one Russian, which will make Russia double down and kill two Ukrainians. This is why I don't support war.

Also, what is your confidence that the money will be used to the stated purpose?

I just spent a month in Kyiv. The reason why I can do that is because Ukrainian soldiers are keeping back psychopathic Russians who would otherwise invade and destroy the city.

Those Russians I helped kill would have otherwise killed those Ukrainian soldiers keeping me safe and making it positive for me to be in Kyiv.

This isn't some abstract "war machine" nonsense. This is killing dangerous, evil, men who want to kill me and my friends.

I've been in Kyiv many times during air raids with Russian shahed drones flying around. I've seen first hand them hitting civilians in their apartment buildings. I've also seen Russian propaganda footage of the Russians building those shaheds.

If I had the chance, I would happily kill every last one of those Russians. Without a doubt.

One of the military units I donated to recently was fundraising to develop and build interceptors to take down Russian Shahed drones. I've heard that particular unit has been quite successful at it, and it (hopefully!) won't be long before a significant % of Russian shaheds are stopped by interceptors.

There's a non-zeeo chance a Russian Shahed will kill me on one of my trips to Kyiv – closest I've been to a hit on an apartment building is only a few kilometers.

So my donation waa improving my own safety in a very direct way.

Now tell me, was _that_ "warmongering"?

Probably more common than you'd think: all those other personnel are necessary for the 2% to actually be able to be effective.

As I said, they didn't. The actual cash component they could be spent on drones is very small.

For example, of the $60 billion in military aid the US has given so far, in reality at least half ($30 billion) was in the form of mostly obsolete weapons taken from storage. Almost all of the rest was restricted to purchasing US made weapons.

The US does not make effective drones. The US simply doesn't know how. Ukrainian companies do.