Pentagon unveils $1.3B for Ukraine, bringing total new US aid this week to $2.3B | Hacker News Reader

Pentagon unveils $1.3B for Ukraine, bringing total new US aid this week to $2.3B

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9 pointsJimmc4142 comments

In 2022 the US sent about $113B USD to Ukraine.[0] There is an estimated 168M taxpayers in the US. So, if instead of sending the money to Ukraine, the money was distributed evenly back to taxpayers, everyone would get a little more than $800, which is a significant amount to a majority of US taxpayers, many of whom live paycheck to paycheck.

If, rather the money had been distributed to all SNAP-eligible households (about 65M according to the social security administration), each household would have received approximately $1,700. Again, not a negligible amount.

[0]: https://www.crfb.org/blogs/congress-approved-113-billion-aid... [1]: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/18/who-pays-...

The reality is people have to die for corporate socialism and global hegemony. That's why there's no talk of negotiations and anyone discussing this war in neutral, or even Western critical terms is denounced as a Putin troll; even on this site. Trump has to be arrested because a 'far right MAGA Republican' suggests peace and RFK Jr is denounced as a dangerous conspiracy theorist.

Your comment is admirable but misses the point; it's not about helping people, it's about finding issues that can be drowned in hysteria to shovel tax payer money into corporate bank accounts. Once Ukraine is finished (which is about now depending on what Poland tries to do with western Ukraine/Galicia) the campaign will switch to some pablum about how the US did its best and stopped Putin in his tracks but it's time to move on. Since the US election is coming up, the corporate money will be behind Biden, at least if Trump wins the nomination. Assuming Biden wins, then another campaign will begin to repeat the cycle.

Note - I'm not "pro-Trump"; he is some sort of clown but seems to have the vested interests riled up because he picked a peace platform, probably so he can put defense spending into his own pocket. That is verboten.

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