American stand-up comedian Andrew Schulz delves into the mechanics of U.S. aid to Ukraine, revealing a surprising twist: the majority of the funds circulate back within the United States.



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  1. This video actually gave me a little hope in celebrities again. I am sick of seeing Joe Rogan Podcast or whatever and hear these conspiracy theories about Ukraine and that Putler only wants peace but NATO does not…

  3. It’s unbelievable how many people don’t understand this. We give Ukraine old used stuff in storage, and pay the MIC to make us brand new shiny stuff

  4. This is not a surprise twist. The US has always stated openly that most of the money is initially spent in the US – for equipment sent to Ukraine and services/training for Ukrainians.

  5. This is true of almost every ‘aid’ package for every scenario (including every form of disaster and famine relief) practiced by every country for the last 75 years.

  6. I thought everyone knew this is how it worked.. we build stuff here and send old stuff there.

  7. duh…..we are funding the replenishment of our weapon stockpiles. Welcome to WAR 101
    Old Weapons are used up– new ones are manufactured with funding.

  8. Support American Jobs. Help to keep the world safer. What’s not to love?

  9. Also Ukraine commits to pay it back in the future, it’s not for free, and chances are the US, UK and others will also make big money rebuilding the country.
    War, after all, sadly, is big business.

  10. Perun breaks this down in one of his videos about resupply.

  11. It’s worth mentioning that this is partly true of all government spending. Spending turns into someone else’s income which is then taxed by the government.

  12. Why is that considered to be “a surprising twist”?

  13. Even an unfunny blind squirrel occasionally finds a nut.

  14. It’s great seeing it comefrom people like Schulz.

    So often in bi-partisan politics good arguments and facts are discounted because of the source – blue no like red, red no like blue. Coming from a source like this on the other hand feels more neutral, and at least people will listen to the message rather than ignore it before it can be delivered.

  15. YOOOOUkraine. Why is it so fucking hard to say Ukraine? Also “tHe UkRaInE”

  16. And it’s been like that from the start. How is this such a news story all of the sudden? The knowledge has been there all the time.

  19. Wow it’s almost like people have been trying shout this since the start glad some people have somewhat functioning brains

  20. “Revealing?”

    Always interesting to see someone learn something as if it’s a new thing. All foreign aid has been, is, and will forever be, money provided to companies and agencies based in the donor country. Glad he learned how it works but it’s not something revealed. It’s common knowledge.

  21. It’s really not that surprising from the viewpoint of an American who actually has some understanding of our recent geopolitical history. That’s how our military agreements with non-NATO allies work pretty much all the time.

    A bunch of Americans are just mouth-breathing idiots who really shouldn’t be trusted to wipe their own asses, let alone have even a baseline understanding of the realities of geopolitical relationships.

  22. Really!!! I thought we just sent a PayPal amount of 50,000,000,000 to Zelensky’s bank account with the message “here you go, have a blast”. Mind blown

  23. I am saying that there are countries that gain more than they give in this war:

    * Norway: sells more oil, weapons and electricity.
    * Germany, Turkey, Sweden, France, and the USA: all sell more weapons thanks to this war.

    The main losers are the Baltic states, which spend a lot of money without apparent returns.

  24. Cutting it off there doesn’t sound good to the “US MIC bad” crowd so I’ll explain further: that money goes towards making new equipment (including pay for the workers), then the new equipment replaces old equipment that costs money to store and maintain, and the older stuff gets sent to Ukraine.

    A harsh as it sounds, this war is good for the US and any other western country with a good sized arms industry.

    And guess what, it’s going to be much better if Ukraine wins (which is easy, Russia is estimated to be militarily and economically unable to fight this war anytime between late this year and early-mid next year).

    Investing in Ukraine after they win is basically going to be like investing in housing after the 2008 without the whole Americans losing money from the western economy being destroyed part.

  25. Yeah, Ukraine is able to manufacture some weapons but obviously, we can’t fight russians with money and US is the biggest weapons shop in town.

  26. At this point, if you don’t already know this, then you can be medically diagnosed as regarded

  27. This isn’t surprising at all to anybody with a tiny bit of logic. We’re not sending pallets of cash to ukraine, we are sending ammo, tanks, apc, manpads from our own stockpiles, then paying american companies to replace what old stock was sent with new. How is that so hard for people to understand? good grief

  28. These people finally figured it out, and now they have to twist it into a new issue. They literally have done ZERO research from the start, and now that they are shown wrong, they create the new conspiracy to dog on their own country. The country that gave them the freedom of speech to be Americans. Well, guess what. Putin will take your First Amendment and your second one, too.

  30. It amazes me how blind the US populace is to how helping Ukraine has so many benefits. The immediate benefit is that money comes back to our defense companies pretty damn fast. We save money by giving Ukraine our old stuff that would cost to break down/demil/scrap.

    Plus this is basically a showcase of what our equipment can do ( we were purpose built for so long to go up against equipment from Russia) its great for weapons sales ect ect. Yes its older stuff ( minus HIMARS and Patriot systems.. well they’re still older but still in use today with us)

    It’s great optics to help a FREE country remain free. Ukraine is trying to remain its own entity. You’d think that’d resonate with the so called “patriots” here.

    Helping and strenghtening ties in Europe should only be seen as good.

  32. If this is news to anyone, they need to get out more. People think we palletize $100 bills and send it there. Almost all of that money goes back into our economy. It’s win, win. When I was in the military we counted the cost of defeating the Soviet Army in the 100’s of thousands of US troops. Now we can sit in the comfort of our living rooms and what what’s left of the former Soviet Army be systematically dismantled at the cost of zero US lives. Ukraine never asked for boots on the ground, just the means to defend their country — so different from everywhere else we have had to deploy troops.

  33. If someone ever complains about aid, they’ve probably never even heard of the concept of tied aid. Lmao as if governments are just giving $ away, its always got strings, its basically rebranded stimulus in some shape or form.

  35. Senate bill has 3.5 billion in investment for shell manfuacturing FACILITIES (worldwide, but largely in USA) yet let’s not talk about that.

  36. Here to watch the Orc trolls try to get everyone anti US.

  37. It’s amazing this still has to be spelled out to some Americans. It’s insane

  38. Thankfully someone simplified it for the the current layer of people who can’t understand how this works
    Hopefully someone can simplify further for the remainder

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