• sanitation@lemmy.todayOP
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    10 days ago

    not true - we sent them hundreds of billions of dollars worth of crap over the years. and picked up obligations not worth our time. All while Europe sold everything to China.
    same with taiwan. stupid waste of resources.
    deliver all the military money to universal health care. We need a modern strategic arsenal but thats about it. where we are geographically we don’t need much - again, - debt is batshit uncontrollable

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      10 days ago

      The overwhelming majority of what we sent them were things that were due or past due being decommissioned anyway, a process which would have costed more than giving them to Ukraine. Then we claimed them at the prices they would cost new in the budget to build completely new weapons. So we saved money on getting rid of old stuff and spent money buying new stuff. Ukraine actually did us a favor in taking it and blowing it up for us.