Bullshit.
Modern? Seriously? Eh, I'm not sure why that matters, but whatever.
Ukraine built the Slava class cruisers for the USSR, plus a lot of other ships in their shipyards, has the Kharkiv Tank Plant, had a large part of the Soviet space industry, has/had multiple heavy industries related to Soviet arms production and general infrastructure, and multiple foundries like Azovstol.
The idea Ukraine is some third world shithole is a fabrication created to gloss over the modern heavy industry, manufactuering, and shipbuilding Ukraine has done.
Now, from what little I can tell, there's no evidence of US troops in Ukraine right now. But the amount of money, tech and other support going to Ukraine while people in the US suffer?
Repeat after me. It's not the place of the US to Police the World.
And if you think otherwise, you go put your own life on the line. Plenty of volunteers, you could be one.
This isn't 'policing the world', this is helping Ukraine get true independence and be able to throw off Moscow's thumb for good.
That you don't understand the difference because you only care about the US tax dollars and equipment going there, and then throw that 'well, if you support them, go volunteer' bullshit (despite the fact Ukraine has closed off accepting foreign volunteers, with only pilots now being welcomed again), shows you are one of the fools who doesn't actually pay attention to what is happening on the ground and in geopolitics that doesn't fit your preferred narrative.
Plus, well, I have responsibilities at home I cannot just drop to satisfy your little fit of pique.
Because I understand geopolitics, understand the Russia is a rabid bear not a 'trad savior', and that no amount of domestic gripes at home in the US justify cutting aid to Ukraine when they have proven very capable fighters who actually are not a waste of time to train like the Afghans and Iraqis were.
Shit, the Ukrainain air defens folks who trained on Patriots had actual expereince shooting down live enemy missiles, something not a lot of US air defense folks had. So the Ukrainains teach us a bit too.
Russia is a shithole, but so is Ukraine. Why do you care? Why should US money, tanks, etc, go to that? Why is the US even involved? Russia Bad? Sure. Are they a major threat to the US? No, unless they nuke, and you're making it ever more likely they get that desperate.
Again, Ukraine is not a shithole, and US aid is going to it, because if Russia is allowed to keep any of what they have tried to steal from Ukraine, they will try for more down the road. What we are doing by aiding Ukraine is making it so Russia doesn't get to try this shit again down the road, and help make sure Ukraine is able to defend itself far into the future as part of NATO (which is pretty much garuanteed to happen once Russian forces are removed from Ukraine at the conflict's end).
Also, Russia using nukes at all will turn it into a pariah, and even the CCP will not help them after that, because they will have just given every nation that fears invasion reason to have a public nuclear arsenal
. The CCP does not want Taiwan, Japan, or South Korea going nuclear, and Russia breaking out even a tactical nuke would ensure that.
Nuclear blackmail only works if you let it, and Putin's own chain of command sabotaged his ability to use nukes a few months after the war began, because Shoigu doesn't want to end up a cloud of vapor, no matter how deluded Putin is.
If you care about this more than what happens to the people of East Palestine, Ohio, ask yourself, why do you care what happens on the far side of the world more than what happens to your fellow Americans?
Wonderful strawman you've built here, arguing that caring for Ukraine means I don't/can't care about East Palestine, or my country.
Which is just straight bullshit; it makes you look supremely foolish and just fucking dumb.
I'm really anti atomic war, thanks.
There won't be nuclear war over Ukraine, and thinking there will be is part of the nuclear blackmail/nuclear terrorism Russia has engaged in for years.
Russia threatens nukes over nearly everything, have since before the Wall fell, and yet here we are; shit, Russia threatened nukes over us sending Ukraine Javelins under Trump, yet no nukes flew.