LordsFire
Internet Wizard
The US Federal budget for 2023 was ~6.134 trillion.
Total US aid to Ukraine since the war began has been ~75 billion.
That would make US aid 1.2% of the federal budget, if it was all over that single fiscal year. It wasn't, and the war's been on for a little over two years now, so we're looking at something like 0.6% of the Federal budget.
US GDP for 2023 was ~23 trillion, a little under 4x the Fed's total budget.
This means that as a percentage for GDP, support has been less than 0.2% of GDP.
And, of course, this is before we go into 'how much of the value of aid given is in the form of military hardware already paid for?' I'm not going to bother to track down those percentages, it's enough to say that 'actual money spent' is even smaller.
You don't like even that small amount being spent to help Ukraine? Okay, fine. I wouldn't want 0.2% spend on Federal welfare programs, even if that'd be much better than what we have now, so I can understand 'it's the principle of the thing' arguments.
The majority of Americans do support the war in Ukraine, and that's how spending is supposed to work in a Republic like this. It's in our national interest for Russia to not conquer Ukraine, and they're willing to do the bleeding and dying, so most Americans are willing to send them material and funds to do so.
If foreign aid spending is your concern, there are much better targets for your ire, and targets where you might actually accomplish something productive, like shutting down money being spent for rainbow indoctrination in other countries, or aid to the terrorists in Gaza.
