After one year, United States military aid to Ukraine has exceeded the annual military expenditure of the U.S. in the war in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2010.
“U.S. military aid to Ukraine through mid-January, spanning the first eleven months of the conflict, totaled $46.6 billion, Statista said in a report this week, citing data from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. That compared with an average annual military spend of $43.4 billion, in 2022 dollars, during the first ten years of the Afghanistan war.
‘When calculating the average annual costs of previous wars in which the United States has been involved in, the true magnitude of the country’s Ukraine aid expenditure can be seen’, Statista data journalist Martin Armstrong said. The Ukraine total doesn’t include an additional $5 billion worth of weapons and equipment that the Pentagon sent to Kiev, he said.
When converted to 2022 dollars, U.S. military spending was far higher in Vietnam, averaging $90.9 billion from 1965 to 1975; Iraq, totaling $125.1 billion per year from 2003 to 2010; and Korea, where the annual rate was $138.2 billion from 1950 to 1953.
U.S. republican lawmakers, who won control of the Lower House in last November’s midterm elections, have called for tougher oversight of Washington's aid to Ukraine. Eleven Republicans introduced a bill earlier this month calling for an immediate halt to the aid program”. -RT
Whereas practically everyone opposed the United States’ invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, today, a significant proportion of Americans are cognitively delayed enough to continue championing the U.S. proxy war against the Russians.
Even worse, a staggering number of people have gullibly diluted themselves into believing the anti-Russian propaganda that the Ukrainians stand a chance at defeating the Kremlin with the backing of the United States military and its NATO allies.
However, given that the Soviet Union collapsed only two years after its withdrawal from Afghanistan, if the haphazard but essential retreat of the U.S. military in Afghanistan is any harbinger, the retreat out of Kiev will likely be even more disastrous.