My boy, most of the money for Ukraine was given to US weapons manufacturers. Your money is in their villas...
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And yet, the ask is always for more, I don't know who is left to fire the weapons, but more are surely needed. Why don't we just light the money on fire, it'll be more efficient
Well no it will not be more efficient than burning. That money, propping up your arms industry, is paying wages in the US. It also butchers people abroad, but that's okay because *checks notes* it's for their freedom.
Could that money be spent better? Of course. It could pay for healthcare, education, housing, transition to clean energy...
In all seriousness, I still might argue its better to burn the money (or delete a bunch of numbers on a spreadsheet) than have it go to the arms industry. Yes, that money does go to pay wages in the US, but thats basically just the broken window fallacy in action - we see results of propping up the arms industry but will never see the benefits of not taxing citizens for that money in the first place.
Having a massive arms industry means having a powerful lobby whispering in everyones ear. I think the War on Terror cost the US something like $2 trillion. Granted in the US, we just stack on debt, but thats another issue. As far as spending money on other, less destructive things, we've proven that money will just be squandered, I'd rather it not be taken in the first place.
As far as Ukraine goes, its pretty easy to whip up US public support for anything - you just have to manufacture an underdog story and we fall for it every time because its in our dna. The public gets told its a battle of good versus evil and jumps right on, when really, its a battle of shit bag vs shit bag (or shit bag vs some astroturfed CIA plant). We can talk all day on the morality of this war, but at the end of the day, it was never winnable and every dollar the US sends is just prolonging the meat grinder.