Ukraine drains more money from the United States. In other news, "the U.S. could run out of money to pay the bills by June 1."

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[–]ActuallyNot 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Ukraine isn't getting money. They're getting ammunition, artillery and armored vehicles.

The money spent on making those is already spent. It has very little relationship to the brinksmanship that surrounds the debt ceiling, except that the very strategic level the US' military spending may be losing benefit/cost.

Especially after Trump's rerouting of funding from cyberwarfare, although possibly he foresees personal benefit to vulnerability to Russia's cyberwarfare since it appears to have paid off in 2016.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Glad we're finding some use for our enormous stockpile of rapidly aging excess vehicles.

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In raw economics, the war is working for the US.

There's a humanitarian cost. Moving against Russia appears to be purely economic, and without China and India, nor half of the Arab block onside, that's not working.