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by epolanski 218 days ago
> Look at the bottom

Also look at the top ;)

> Russsia invading Ukraine, and the US providing the majority of the weapons and cash

That's beyond false, US provided little non-military help, the money mostly stayed in US and went to US contractors.

I don't need to tell you that those figures are also insanely inflated by crazy costs.

Zelenski himself has stated that he proposed multiple times to, e.g., send its navy to US ports to take the weapons so US taxpayers wouldn't have to bear the costs, but instead tens of billions went into that expense. Why? Because US support to Ukraine is a welfare machine for US contractors.

In total EU has provided around 3 times more between military and non-military.

https://www.kielinstitut.de/publications/ukraine-support-tra...

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There is a reason they wrote this article:

https://www.kielinstitut.de/publications/ukraine-aid-how-eur...

But people at the ammo factory are going to have to work more than 4 days a week with 8 weeks vacation.