And that’s just what they admit to publicly.
MIC has made $113 Billion in profits.
Totally unrelated, move along
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Ain’t no war better than a proxy war. Libs don’t lose their kids, political support so easy to maintain
Love to see the defense stock skyrocket. They’re the real winners
There are usually half a million homeless people in the USA. That means that they could’ve bought each and every one of those a 200k dollar home with that money. They could also have paid a total of 50 million months of rent at the 2000$ median price. And this is even taking as a premise that housing should be sellable or rentable in the first place. And yet they preferred this instead.
Any Yankee around still not convinced that the USA government needs to end, this is your moment to reconsider.
Isn’t this technically loaned to Ukraine?
And they’ll be asking for returns
They’ll get Ukraine to join the EU and then EU citizens will pay for it.
Sounds like a plan. It will also force EU into a direct war with Russia
That’s not really astounding to me. Hell, our government made the decision over a weekend to give 22 billion to bail out Silicon Valley Bank. Our government spends this kind of money without blinking. They only act like it’s too much when it would be used to help the average citizen.
Imagine spending these money on useful things
If US spent even a fraction of the money it spends on trying to cling to global hegemony on fighting climate change we wouldn’t be in a climate crisis right now.
Capital directly benefits from spending money in this way, and directly suffers if social spending increases.
It seems they got rattled by Russia’s rebellion against NATO. They want to preserve their hegemony as much as possible.
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I’ve always found personifying U.S. and its relationship with its neighbors to be very useful. It all scales up and down with ease.
The US’ actions can sort of translate to those of an abusive single father.
Instead of spending a fraction of that money to improve its own people’s lives, the US yet again prioritizes supporting fascist scum over valuing human life. The US terrorist regime needs to be sent where it belongs, the dustbin of history!
God how many lifesaving materials could that money buy
hospital equipment, hospitals, vaccines, infrastructure repair, debt relief, healthcare, fucking anything!
but now its just burned on a war they will lose in like 3 years
Literally no one I know is happy about this. I have yet to meet a single living person who approves of all this unchecked money and equipment being sent to some European country most people didn’t know about until 2014.
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$1 million dollars to everybody living in the USA with billions left over.
Healthcare? Nope, too expensive.
Better water or power service? Nope, too expensive.
Public transport? Nope, too expensive.
War? Oh shit yeah! Money 🖨 go brrrrr!
Nah it’s only 337 dollars to everyone living in the USA. But I agree that it would have bought a lot of healthcare and infrastructure instead of pouring it down the toilet that is the Ukrainian military.
You really need to double-check that math lol
'kay fine… I’ll be more specific.
$1 million dollars “to each and every living person within the arbitrary borders of the United States of Mayo-vania”
There… are you happy… now.
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…That’s almost 370 trillion dollars
Math is also theory. pls self-crit.
Okay, I’ll bite.
How am I supposed to understand this comment?
you seemed to double down on your math error instead of investigating and correcting it. It just looks silly unless there was a a joke I missed.
if libs saw this they would post this to a tankiejerk comm saying “Hexbear can’t math. Explains why they like communism 100 billion dead” etc. I don’t wanna give them easy Ws.
Okay so I’m seeing less of a math error and more of a, I didn’t specifically say give everybody living in the USA $1million dollars each. So… like… 11 billion minus what… somewhere around 400 million is like… counts on fingers, 10 billion and change for war and 400 million people with some cash in pocket to pay bills or buy new teeth or whatever.
Instead, the comment decided to interpret my lack of specificity as, “$1million divided up between 400million.” Which is genuinely funny and I figured I would roll with the dig.
And I mean, liberals are gonna liberal. I’m not too worried about it. But I can appreciate the concern.
yeah it reads like you were saying $113 billon divided by 400 million people = $1 million each lol
The amount you’re looking for is a dollar. If you take 400 million out of the spending and divide it equally among 400 million people, everyone gets a dollar. I 100% agree that everyone getting that dollar would be an improvement upon current state, but a dollar doesn’t even get you a slice anymore, much less pay for new teeth.
TIL there are 113,000 people in the US
Good thing there were no massive fires recently in any states within their own country that need aid, or a widespread epidemic of homelessness, or people starving in the streets.
Must be great that they have everything so under control domestically that there is absolutely nothing else that that money could be spent on. So yeah, keep it going forever, that seems to make sense.
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