There is so much corruption with this war, the taxpayers are getting fleeced for a war we have no business being in.
That's because the media you read is filled with pro-Russian narrative.
The US spent 3% of its military budget to destroy 50% of the Russian military, according to Republican senator Lindsey Graham.
Having spent less than 3% of annual U.S. military budget in security assistance, Ukraine managed to cut Russia’s combat capacity in half, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said at a press conference in Kyiv on Aug. 23.
news.yahoo.com
And a 0 cost to American or NATO lives. Not even the paint got scratched.
If you could go back 40 years and tell Pentagon planners they could get the same deal, they'd all pass out from the orgasms.
And plus...the US is sending old 2nd tier stuff, that was paid for DECADES ago, but is still valued on the Pentagon's books at purchase price. Equipment so old that it's not even made anymore, like Stinger anti-air missiles. Vehicles/ordnance so old that it would have cost money to decommission, like the M113s & cluster munitions. For the newer stuff (like artillery shells or the Abrams tanks), well guess what - the US is paying US citizens to make them, it's not a blank check to Ukraine.
Also...from a strategic point of view, Ukraine is a critical supplier of rare gases used in chip production.
Whether the conflict in Ukraine is resolved quickly or becomes a protracted struggle is still unclear. However, the new churn in geopolitics underlines the imperative for enhancing resiliency of the semiconductor supply chain to prepare ourselves for more uncertain times.
www.csis.org
Just about everything we use or depend on in modern life depends on steady chip production. Computers, cars, airplanes, medical equipment, phones - they all use computer chips. If Putin had seized that, then he'd have the whole world economy by its balls.
