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:
The majority of people I know opposed to Ukraine funding fall basically into two camps. 1 - more than half of the money we have sent to Ukraine is unaccounted for and 2 - sending money to avoid our boots on the ground in Ukraine and elsewhere is meaningless if we continue to let military aged men into our country via our southern border. Sadly, the boots on the ground will be here. So corruption and our sovereignty are why people are against it. Not to mention our dismal track record of trillions in spending in Iraq and Afghanistan to end up being lied to and humiliated. Ukraine has no chance. We should be brokering peace. The only reason we aren’t is because the defense beast and corrupt oligarchs need to be fed with our money. There will be a day of reckoning and I’m concerned it’s upon us.
Can we also quit sending money to our adversaries like Iran and the PLO HAMAS so we can help our allies seems like we are funding both sides buying crap from China oil from Russia if we are fighting a proxy war war let’s stop giving aid to the enemy