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U.S. Congressmen appeared to admit that the U.S. has thus far spent a mindblowing $300 billion on Ukraine since 2014.
The rest of the exchange is fascinating too, particularly the admission of 12 CIA bases in Ukraine.
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By the way, as a last point, this exchange on the topic was notable in demonstrating how utterly involved the U.S. really is in the ‘proxy’ conflict. Listen just to the last few seconds where the congressman literally says “we should destroy [Russia’s oil & gas infrastructure]”


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1) Getting your news from "simplicus76.substack.com" is absurd.

2) The very referenced video cited Tuberville, a long-time Ukraine aid opponent, claiming that $300B was spent, and the person he was asking stating that those numbers are not accurate.

3) The spending bills are not remotely secret.

Before 2022, aid was several hundred million per year. Since 2022... here's a chart, through the summer of last year.

Furthermore, things like weapons stocks are not cash - they're things that are sitting in warehouses in the US, slowly rotting away towards their expiration dates. A lot of the M113s for example being sent were serving in the friggin' Vietnam War. Empying the old stocks gives the US a chance to modernize its inventory.

And where new weapons are produced, they're produced in the US; the money goes straight back into the US economy, and ultimately, back into the tax pool.