J.D. Vance’s Ukraine math doesn’t add up. Helping Kyiv is less costly than the alternative.

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1. This guy is being a little disingenuous. He acknowledges that the sixty billion currently on the table is insufficient to turn the tide, but he didn’t break it down. Only a little more than half is allocated to military aid. Half of THAT is earmarked for training and intel assistance, leaving only about fifteen billion for armaments purchases. And I remind you: Biden used the phrase “one and done” when discussing this aid package, which is nowhere near enough to buy a successful counteroffensive. So where does this leave us?

2. You can take the boy out of the country but you can’t….

3. He is trash.

   This is the best return on money we would ever spend, at 10x the amount.

   Blue wave and keep sending the funding until the job is done.

4. We spend 1 trillion dollars a year on our bloated military budget, but can’t give Ukraine 50 billion a year to hold their lines, and instead choose to watch our largest military rivals expand and butcher, to eventually become even greater military powers as they pillage and absorb their neighbors.

5. J.D. Vance is spouting Russian propaganda. Nobody claims this package turns the tide. What it does is keep Ukraine in the fight until European production ramps up and until politics in the US changes. Even with the little support Ukraine is currently getting, Russia struggles mightily to achieve little gains at great cost. The war is not going well for Russia. The lines barely move, and the Russian military is being ground down, and its morale continues to sink further. When European productive capacity comes online, and with renewed American leadership after a Biden reelection, the Russian position in Ukraine will become untenable. J.D. Vance will be proven wrong.