Should’ve sent more weapons and less cash back in 2022.
Should’ve used it to build communities for the homeless.
What incredible waste.
For what?
These are incredibly basic categories; what does budget support even mean? Also where does the rest go?
Also how is this OC if you literally are screenshotting a graph from a government organization? Did you do this?
This stuff is spread across multiple years, but IF the full ~$200B was all at once, that is $200B / $6.9T = 2.8% of the annual budget.
Of course, this is 2022 + 2024, so we might consider it 3 years, which would make it more like 2.8/3 ~ 0.9% of the annual budget for three years.
Just some loose perspective, don’t @ me I know the math is inexact.
The U.S. Congress has voted through five bills that have provided Ukraine with aid since the war began, doing so most recently in April 2024. The total budget authority under these bills—the “headline” figure often cited by news media—is $175 billion. The historic sums have helped a broad set of Ukrainian people and institutions, including refugees, law enforcement, and independent radio broadcasters, though most of the aid has been military-related. In late 2024, the United States also provided the Ukrainian government with a $20 billion loan, funded by interest generated from frozen Russian assets.
It’s important to note that of the total U.S. government spending related to the war, about $128 billion directly aids the government of Ukraine, according to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. Most of the remainder has funded various U.S. activities associated with the war in Ukraine, and a small portion has supported other affected countries in the region. [See more charts](https://www.cfr.org/article/how-much-us-aid-going-ukraine?utm_medium=social_owned&utm_source=reddit) on aid to Ukraine.
Isn’t most of the 70B going back to the American war businesses
Any existing visualizations on the overhead costs? Spent time at the HQ in charge of UKR military assistance and I know there were costs in buffing up our own deterrence measures in Europe, plans to evac US citizens, etc.
Waiting for the “should’ve spent it on this niche focus area or let me keep my ~$80/yr, what a waste!” to see who lacks understanding of how global issues impact joe-selfish internet gnome’s need to buy more stuff.
Before this whole thing started, Ukraine was on a blacklist of countries with which my particular pie wedge of the military-industrial complex was forbidden from doing any business.
In the last three years, a pretty sizable slice of the lower rectangle there has come straight from the plant at which I work. Crazy how things go.
The amount **allocated** is not the same as the amount received.
There are already a lot of comments about how most of the spending is done in the U.S. but I haven’t seen anything about how much of the allocated hasn’t been spent or received by the Ukrainians. This isn’t a trivial amount.
Now we just need a visualization for the people in the back thinking we are literally strapping money to pallets and flying it over to Ukraine for them to understand that we’re basically instead giving Ukraine a gift card to the American Military Industrial Complex store so that money is ultimately going to Americans to produce the weapons and vehicles we give to Ukraine.
I don’t get how this ever became “controversial” but yet here we are
Which one of these include the politicians’ pockets?
I _see_ those numbers, but I _know_ that we’ve sent $350B to Ukraine and they lost all the money. That’s what I saw on Twitter so I know it’s true.
-MAGA
We call it aid but a large chunk of the money ‘given’ to Ukraine is to be paid back with interest. So it’s like a loan. Aid to NGOs, however, is not a loan.
Good. We should send more.
Ukraine gave up its nuclear arsenal in exchange for treaties with Russia and the west. The former involved no invasions and the latter involved protection. They’ve now been screwed over by both sides.
![[OC] Here’s How Much Aid the United States Has Sent Ukraine](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/zh45bt2laioe1-1501x1024.png)
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Should’ve sent more weapons and less cash back in 2022.
Should’ve used it to build communities for the homeless.
What incredible waste.
For what?
These are incredibly basic categories; what does budget support even mean? Also where does the rest go?
Also how is this OC if you literally are screenshotting a graph from a government organization? Did you do this?
This stuff is spread across multiple years, but IF the full ~$200B was all at once, that is $200B / $6.9T = 2.8% of the annual budget.
Of course, this is 2022 + 2024, so we might consider it 3 years, which would make it more like 2.8/3 ~ 0.9% of the annual budget for three years.
Just some loose perspective, don’t @ me I know the math is inexact.
The U.S. Congress has voted through five bills that have provided Ukraine with aid since the war began, doing so most recently in April 2024. The total budget authority under these bills—the “headline” figure often cited by news media—is $175 billion. The historic sums have helped a broad set of Ukrainian people and institutions, including refugees, law enforcement, and independent radio broadcasters, though most of the aid has been military-related. In late 2024, the United States also provided the Ukrainian government with a $20 billion loan, funded by interest generated from frozen Russian assets.
It’s important to note that of the total U.S. government spending related to the war, about $128 billion directly aids the government of Ukraine, according to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. Most of the remainder has funded various U.S. activities associated with the war in Ukraine, and a small portion has supported other affected countries in the region. [See more charts](https://www.cfr.org/article/how-much-us-aid-going-ukraine?utm_medium=social_owned&utm_source=reddit) on aid to Ukraine.
Isn’t most of the 70B going back to the American war businesses
Any existing visualizations on the overhead costs? Spent time at the HQ in charge of UKR military assistance and I know there were costs in buffing up our own deterrence measures in Europe, plans to evac US citizens, etc.
Waiting for the “should’ve spent it on this niche focus area or let me keep my ~$80/yr, what a waste!” to see who lacks understanding of how global issues impact joe-selfish internet gnome’s need to buy more stuff.
Before this whole thing started, Ukraine was on a blacklist of countries with which my particular pie wedge of the military-industrial complex was forbidden from doing any business.
In the last three years, a pretty sizable slice of the lower rectangle there has come straight from the plant at which I work. Crazy how things go.
The amount **allocated** is not the same as the amount received.
There are already a lot of comments about how most of the spending is done in the U.S. but I haven’t seen anything about how much of the allocated hasn’t been spent or received by the Ukrainians. This isn’t a trivial amount.
Now we just need a visualization for the people in the back thinking we are literally strapping money to pallets and flying it over to Ukraine for them to understand that we’re basically instead giving Ukraine a gift card to the American Military Industrial Complex store so that money is ultimately going to Americans to produce the weapons and vehicles we give to Ukraine.
I don’t get how this ever became “controversial” but yet here we are
Which one of these include the politicians’ pockets?
I _see_ those numbers, but I _know_ that we’ve sent $350B to Ukraine and they lost all the money. That’s what I saw on Twitter so I know it’s true.
-MAGA
We call it aid but a large chunk of the money ‘given’ to Ukraine is to be paid back with interest. So it’s like a loan. Aid to NGOs, however, is not a loan.
Good. We should send more.
Ukraine gave up its nuclear arsenal in exchange for treaties with Russia and the west. The former involved no invasions and the latter involved protection. They’ve now been screwed over by both sides.
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