$130B sounds like a lot, but in the context of $1T+ annual government spending, one might want to see it in context. I'm reminded of the people who complained about money spent on the Apollo program, saying that money should be spent "here on earth." Well, there ain't no Macdonalds on the Moon; all that money *WAS* spent on earth, and you can thank that program for the developments that led to the PC. Meanwhile, the entire Apollo program came to less than 1/5th of what was spent on programs like Welfare at the time. So exactly how many of the world's problems would that extra drop in the bucket have solved?
Ukraine deserves to live unmolested by a savage neighbor with imperial ambitions. How much safer do these people think they'd actually be for just rolling over and urinating on themselves to please daddy Vlad?
$130B sounds like a lot, but in the context of $1T+ annual government spending, one might want to see it in context. I'm reminded of the people who complained about money spent on the Apollo program, saying that money should be spent "here on earth." Well, there ain't no Macdonalds on the Moon; all that money *WAS* spent on earth, and you can thank that program for the developments that led to the PC. Meanwhile, the entire Apollo program came to less than 1/5th of what was spent on programs like Welfare at the time. So exactly how many of the world's problems would that extra drop in the bucket have solved?
Ukraine deserves to live unmolested by a savage neighbor with imperial ambitions. How much safer do these people think they'd actually be for just rolling over and urinating on themselves to please daddy Vlad?