The Biden administration announced on Monday a new lethal aid package for Ukraine totaling about $1.7 billion and largely consisting of missiles and ammunition for missile, artillery and air defense systems the US has previously provided to Ukraine.
The US is committing $1.5 billion in new weapons and equipment to Ukraine through the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), which will include “capabilities to augment Ukraine’s air defenses, fires, and anti-tank weapons, as well as funding to sustain equipment previously committed by the United States,” according to a Defense Department news release.
The Defense Department is also sending Ukraine up to $200 million worth of weapons and equipment directly from US Department of Defense stockpiles via Presidential Drawdown Authority, which includes “air defense interceptors; munitions for rocket systems and artillery; and anti-tank weapons,” according to the news release.
I wish we could spend $1,700,000,000.00 on healthcare reform for the US citizens. No disrespect to Ukrainians intended at all
Completely irrelevant. Single payer healthcare costs less than our current system. We can’t have healthcare reform not because we fund other causes but because the political power of those who benefit from a corrupt privatized healthcare system is too strong.
Specifically the US is already spending more federal tax dollars on healthcare, per capita, than the UK is spending on the NHS.
Now the NHS is underfunded but imagine what the US could afford in terms of healthcare quality and availability if you add what Americans are currently paying to their insurances on top of that.
And the inefficiencies aren’t just capitalist grift, btw: It’s also that the US system, systemically, does not do prevention. Lots of ER visits could be avoided if people wouldn’t have to fear bankruptcy when they go to a regular check-up, but noone gets turned down at the ER and noone can afford the bills so hospitals get stuck with the bills and the government has to bail them out. That’s where a huge chunk of that federal money is flowing, next to medicare and medicaid, which both cost way more than they should because aforementioned grift, and lobbyist-written laws enabling that grift.
It’s only $5 a person so…
I’d pay $5 to send a bullet to a Russian.
The USA spent $4,700,000,000,000 on healthcare last year. I doubt 0.036% of that would make much difference.
Supply them with the best weapons. This madness has to end.
I don’t think I have ever heard it called that. Very apt, though.
I fathom it’s due to the effectiveness of telling conservatives most of the aid is older munitions. At least from the last package.
WE SHOULDN’T BE SPENDING MONEY ON OTHER COUNTRIES!!!
It’s mostly crap we aren’t using.
Oh ok.
That’s how it usually goes for me anyway.
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If you have any questions or comments about me, you can make a post to LW Support lemmy community.I really like the idea of this bot, but there way too much text in that comment. Should be a third of that length at most.
It’s mostly in a spoiler tag and is intended for it to give you only the conclusion and you’d need to click through to get to the detail.
It doesn’t work on my client though.
Ah I was wondering about that. It’s not working for me either, I’m using Boost.
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This is a joke, right?
What joke?
Explain the joke
The new(ish) owner (David Zaslav) of CNN is friends with righties (John Malone) and is quoted saying they hired a guy to “Push CNN back to hard news and away from red-hot liberal opining”.
Sus.
Has there been evidence of this happening?
I don’t have examples of CNN having run garbage but i have heard of it happening.
Take that for what you will.
Makes sense. Something to definitely watch out for, but not necessarily something that has already happened.
For one, CNN has a history of firing / cutting ties with anyone that is pro-Palestine (not even anti-Israel, just anyone who simply doesn’t want people in Gaza and the West Bank to die).
