Let's face it, military aid to Ukraine isn't pallets of cash.

[Joe Nation]

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Often times when our leadership talk about 10, 15, or 50 billion dollars in aid to some country like Ukraine, we are not sending them a giant check or a pallet of cash to spend. What we are sending is military (and some humanitarian aid) in equipment that we assign a numerical value to, and it isn't the newest or the latest equipment we have in our arsenals. For example, the ATACMS we recently supplied are 90's technology and certainly not the latest most expensive highest tech military equipment we have. We are not building much in the way of arms and sending it abroad. We have warehouses full of this stuff. So don't be fooled by those that say that we shouldn't be sending all this money to Ukraine or Israel when we need the money here at home. It was money spent a long time ago for weapons that were never used.

[WhiteTara]

1. that was *co in Iraq.

[mopinko]

2. that we bought to fight russia.

that r finally being used for their purpose.

[The Bopper]

3. There's the problem

A bunch of crooked rethugs can’t find a way to make themselves rich off our “assistance “ to Ukraine like Dick Cheney and friends did in Iraq.
A little more corruption and their complaints go away.

[hueymahl]

4. Partly accurante

Some of it we won't replace. But the military-industrial complex is literally salivating at the amount of weapons they are having to make to partially replace what was sent. Nothing like to world at war to juice profits.