The Pentagon said Tuesday that it overestimated the value of the weapons it has sent to Ukraine by $6.2 billion over the past two years. The war has been an incredible grift on American taxpayers.
Pentagon accounting error provides extra $6.2 billion for Ukraine military aid
LMFAO the downvotes, this is precisely why US is such a shithole country. Instead of spending taxes on things that actually help Americans such as infrastructure, healthcare, or education it all goes to endless wars that Americans keep cheering on. You lot deserve exactly what's happening to you.
this is true and has been true for my entire life
the us is the core of the empire but functions as a 3rd world banana republic
Having extra money left over seems like the opposite of a grift to me.
Where do you think that money ends up exactly, think it's going to recirculate back into the economy or end up continue being allocated to the Pentagon?
The grift: effortlessly eradicating what used to be the largest military threat to the United States in the world without even risking American lives for pennies on the dollar. What a grift.
"effortlessly eradicating"
Look, even if you're optimistic about how Ukraine has been doing or the damage it has done to Russia (and it has done damage, certainly), saying that it has "effortlessly eradicated" Russia's military capabilities is absurd
"without even risking American lives"
This, however, is a good encapsulation of the non-MIC-grift side of the government's strategy. Ukrainian lives are virtually worthless to them, so they may as well throw them into the meat grinder no matter how low the net gain because any damage to their geopolitical opponents is worth it.
The more-informed people who support this are some combination of cynical monsters who view dead Americans as a liability and sick chauvinists who think only Americans really count as human (unless there's some outrage fodder to be made of others). It's alarming to see this calculus proudly touted by someone who presumably doesn't identify by either of those labels.
We gave resources we have in abundance and won't miss to a committed defense force who has defeated the extended and then domestic military reach of Russia. It didn't cost Americans anything, bodily or economically. The price of eggs went up because of corporate profiteering, not because we spent less than 4% of our bloated military budget defeating Russia by proxy.
Secondly, you're making a false equivalence. Appreciating that Americans are not dying while removing a real threat does not mean that you do not appreciate and value the Ukrainians who are making sacrifices.
Hah, downvoting an AP article. I guess they're in Putin's pocket too now! It's a good thing only Republicans cry "fake news" at everything that threatens them.
I think it's the last bit about the fact that all this money is coming out of people's pockets that made them mad. We're not supposed to talk about the cost the average person pays for maintaining the empire.
Still hella New Afrikan communities with lead water lines in this country, still hella cities with shit power grids that will UNDOUBTEDLY fry this summer and potentially kickstart more wildfires in this country, still hella water shortages in the desert in this country, still antiquated-ass rail lines with chronically-taken-advantage-of rail workers that'll undoubtedly lead to more derailings in the immediate future in this country; but sure, let's just give the ukronazis practically everything we got.