The Hidden Benefits of Helping Ukraine

A number of my friends on the right are deeply opposed to funding Ukraine, Israel, and Tawain without some sort of financial commitment from the respective countries. As the United States debt to GDP ratio continues to head in an unsustainable trajectory, I am equally concerned over the prospect of handing blank checks to counties around the world.

As much as I understand the financial concerns, I am equally baffled at the isolationists who are happy to watch the world burn around them. These isolationists have no sense of history and are willfully ignoring the new axis of evil emerging before our very eyes. The coordination between China, Russia, and Iran on rare earth minerals, weapons systems, financial aid, and oil trading is simply too obvious to ignore at this point.

By funding Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan to the tune of less than 1.5% of the US budget, we prevent their expanding influence while keeping US soldiers from being deployed into harm’s way. If these same people were actually serious about unsustainable spending levels, their focus would be on Medicare, Social Security, or blank checks handed to failing school systems around the country.

But there’s something more: The intelligence gleaned from fighting proxy battles against Iran, Russia, and China can’t be overstated. By directly funding Ukraine with US weapons systems, we now know that a billion-dollar Boeing-led US weapons project is essentially worthless. Unbeknownst to us, the Russian military possessed technology that was able to jam the weapon’s GPS guidance system rendering the entire project worthless.

Without live-fire testing like this, the US could enter a war with inferior military technology putting US lives at risk. But that’s not the only reason we should fund Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. Watch: