Public sentiment is predominantly negative regarding the halt in U.S. weapons deliveries to Ukraine, characterized by feelings of betrayal, frustration, and skepticism about U.S. commitments. Many commenters express concern that domestic priorities are overshadowing international responsibilities, particularly for Ukraine amidst its conflict with Russia. There is a clear divide between those who support ending aid as a prudent financial move and those who view it as a dangerous abandonment of a key ally.

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It's a great day to be an artillery manufacturer for the US military!  But, I'm glad that we finally got this aid through the House.  It shouldn't have taken 6 months.

wuapinmon

These weapons are also older 80s-90s tech that is reaching the end of their shelf life. The weapons are literally going to be useless in a few years anyway. We are sending older tech that will get into good use in Ukraine, it defends Ukraine’s territory, the US’ current stock gets replenished with new equipment, and we weaken Russia which is the biggest threat to humanity right now. It’s a win win at all sides

CanesMan1993

Lol. Bots are raging in the comments below :)

Kelevra_TheDog

Wow…the Russian trolls and apologists are out today!!!!

Plant some more sunflowers, Ukraine!!! Water them with these fascist tears 🤣

No wonder putin is enraged and spouting hate at the top of his lungs.

He didn't expect his republican congress to let him down.

flawless_victory99

Maybe I am wrong, but when the US offers AID they send weapons not cash. 

Isn’t that something that benefits the USA more than Ukraine? 

They will get new stock that can be stored and checked again.

Tosinone

I hope every Putin supporter sees this and feels defeat. 

Go back to  your own country.

Edit: needed to clarify

HugheyM

I feel so bad for this dude having to rely on any republicans to save his country.

Voters should continue to pressure their governments to address the Russian threat. If Mike Johnson can hold up Ukrainian aid for 6 months, then he could potentially do it again. If people lose interest again or walk into this war with overblown expectations, then that $60 billion will be squandered.

Artillery shell production should ramp up, aid should be kept stable, and people should be asking themselves "what flaws need to be corrected, so that a Ukrainian victory over Russia is guaranteed."

This is the second Cold War and we need to accept this. The threat from Russia, China, and Iran is \*not\* a left or right issue. This is an issue of whether humanity can evolve beyond fascism and tyranny, or we are trapped forever as slaves to some old fuck's revanchist delusions of grandeur.

I just hope it's enough to help and gets there in time to prevent worsening of the situation. 

Apologies to Ukraine that some of the Republicans in Congress are such shit human beings.

Ma1nta1n3r

Arcturus_Labelle

The bot farms are in overdrive today. You can tell Russia is very angry and very, very afraid at the same time.

Hell yeah man, fight fascism, let democracy reign.

jimmothy55

Another bit of good news is the Republican party is starting to move away from the likes of the Marjorie Taylor Greene faction. The Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is actually working with Democrats and it looks like the toxic faction won't be able to remove him from power like they want.

DarthChimeran

You could tell how much it pissed off the Russians when Dmitry Medvedev went on another hostile rant.

nigel_pow

How many hundreds of excess Ukranian troops died while we dawdled? 

TheClassyDegenerate1

It’s funny how much those that are against this don’t even realize that a lot of what is sent to them isn’t actual money but it’s the value of the resources being sent

AceTheJ

Gotta love to see the MAGAtards coping and seething hard

Glavurdan

It is righteous and good to provide aid to Ukraine in their time of need. Russia is an aggressor state and their war is illegal, immoral, and unjust. 

The US doesn't get a lot of things right. 

This is one of those things that we ought to do. It will pay dividends in the end. Not just for the fact that we help defend good people against a tyrannical dictatorship, but this will help stop this conflict from expanding. 

I wish we could do more, but I understand that the political will is not there and it is tough to make that call for other people, since other people's lives would be on the line. 

But sending aid is what we should do, and continue to do.

AnonAmbientLight

NatSpaghettiAgency

The west needs to take the gloves off Ukraine and let them use those weapons to take out important targets inside Russia and destroy the Kerch Bridge.

AdUpstairs7106

It's such a great way to take punches at Russia without having to declare a war, to gift weapons to Ukraine.

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I am an American. I am proud for my tax dollars to go Ukraine and I hope they continue to. This is the physical front in the global fight between self rule and authoritarianism. Every dollar sent lessens the chance American blood will need to be shed. 

We have our own battle here against trump and his ilk. Both must be won.

RadonAjah

Reminder to folks that this isn’t money we transfer to Ukraine. Rather, we give Ukraine weapons we have and buy new systems for ourselves. 

This means that:

The logistics powerhouse that is the US military gets hardware to the front lines quickly

US companies employing US workers get orders for new products to replace the packages sent to Ukraine.

It’s win win. Which of course, is why the idiots that are MAGA fought it for so long.

Spara-Extreme

But we should never forgive the US Republicans for needlessly killing Ukrainians so they could play politics. Despicable.

sharingsilently

"We will have a chance at victory" music to my ears! Go Ukraine, go Ukraine!

As an American, it absolutely wounds me we haven't done more to help Ukraine.  The US could ship over 500 Abrams tanks, 500 Bradleys and 100 F-16s, and this war would be over right quick.  We haven't done that and Ukraine is paying the price.  

I do appreciate that military aid packages the US is passing, but we were spending more in Afghanistan than Ukraine, and that doesn't make any sense.  We were never going to make a difference in Afghanistan.  The outcome of this war is going to make a huge difference.

ChairmanGoodchild

Which is why Russia was so intent on stopping it.

Jaeris

I emailed my rep several times reminding him that most of his constituents support Ukraine and that MAGAt actually voted yay for Ukraine aid. I sent a *thank you for doing the right thing for once* email to his office. Can’t wait to vote him out.

Sweetwater156

The fact it took so long is an embarrassment, the fact so many Russian agents in the house were able to hold this up for so many months is ridicules. I hope they are haunted by the innocents who died because of their actions.

bassoontennis

Conspiracy and conservative subs are back to their bemoaning;

-what about giving the money to Americans that need it (which they won’t support that either)

-why can’t Ukraine just surrender? 

-“I am Russian and I am afraid for my life… so many unhinged liberals are calling for my murder…”

MoveToRussiaAlready

Ukraine aid was my biggest worry out of all the situations happening right now around the globe people here just don't understand how serious things will get if we allow Ukraine to fall Ukraine has more then showed there willing to fight we should be sending them everything they need to fight russia it's a win for Ukraine America, and all Democracies to stop this rise of Authoritarianism

Di1Vizion_7421

I'm American and more proud my tax dollars are going to help Ukraine.


It's helps the candle of democracy to stay lit and keep the wolves at bay.

Bitter_Director1231

Good. Kick ass.  Bomb those bastards to Siberia.  

We promised to defend Ukraine if they’d give up their nukes and then fucked them in the ass six ways to Sunday when Russia invaded.  

Congrats to JD Vance and the rest of the MAGAts for dragging this country’s reputation into the sewer.   It’ll be decades before would-be allies forget.

BringBackApollo2023

I admire his plucky attitude.
Good luck to him!

carzgo

It makes me happy that my tax dollars are helping Russians take more forever naps.

StealthyOrca

Give them more!!!! Let them have long range missiles! Give them what they need to stop Putin!

galloway188

Happy to pay my taxes to help our friends.  I hope it turns the tide for them!

I don't understand how conservatives don't feel national pride with this. The Ukrainians admire us and they look to us with hope. We give them dignity and help them survive. The Russians hate us, threaten to attack us, and attack our friends. How could conservatives possibly think the Russians want to be our friends? It's insane

BeneficialNatural610

jssanderson747

Does anyone even remember the bullshit rationale Putin gave for invading a sovereign nation?

mrbeck1

He also thanked Americans for the aid, even the ones who have been duped by Russian propaganda.

You know who you are.

I must ask, even though YES SLAVA UKRAINI, why is US the hinge pin for victory ? Where is Germany/France MIC?

just three days ago the news coming from Ukraine was “this doesn’t look good”

King_of_Fillory

PeterNippelstein

It’s going to take more than aid packages.  Russia has their war economy going now. Russia’s hurting and can’t keep it up forever but Ukraine won’t win in a war of attrition.  Something else is needed.

GrimmRadiance

They better get a bunch from EU too and get this shit done otherwise nothing is going to change it and they will have to find a truce some how, don't know how but endless stalemate is not acceptable.

23jknm

Eh. I’m not holding my breath. 6 weeks it will be the same if not more dire.

well_i_heard

It breaks my heart that the entire western world can't get our acts together and support this one country. We're the ones drawing this out by not giving them the support they need to defend themselves.

tethysian

I’m looking forward to the Zelenskyy statues put up after this guy eventually leaves office after having fought off Putin’s laughably bad but stupidly persistent military occupation of Ukraine.

AnglerJared

The sad truth is the war is over. They either have to escalate to a scary place that puts us all at risk or make land concessions. They are not actively losing the war but they can’t win even with all of our money. They will be in the same position in 6 months with 20000 more men dead.

rogerslywords

Give it a month tops before he starts pitching about lack of aid and how if we don't send more money they'll die. American taxes for Americans

FrankieTheCasual

He needs to read “Art of War”. Move in silence. 🤫 Don’t announce to the enemy your tactics.

BrainLate4108

The weapons will hold off loss

But won't win it

There won’t be a victory for anyone in this conflict. There will be a compromise of some sort. The US elections may decide who will get a better deal. I bet the Europeans are longing to get back their cheap natural gas from Russia.

buscuitsANDgravy

Republicans don’t like it because Ukraine has no oil and Trump likes Putin. Narcissists adore and envy psychopaths.

Hen-stepper

Whats 61 billion gonna do after the first 100 billion didn't do anything?

diluted_confusion

The Ukraine has a chance of holding onto what they have. That's the extent of the victory.  It won't get any better until there are NATO boots on the ground

SurroundTiny

The problem is, money doesn't buy everything! Putin has more bodies to throw at the situation! At some point it's game over!

Midnight-51

Imagine if we taxed every citizen $1000. We could easily afford that and give that money to Ukraine and they'd be able to easily win. That would be 350B.

Weird_Assignment649

We're funding their pensions lost due to war.  Thats why we pay taxes.

Altruistic-Swing4326

He has to say this to make it feel like the $60b of tax payer money is going to result in a victory but in reality the money will run out in 6 months and he'll be back begging the US for tens more billions. The problem is the more money the US fronts to Ukraine, the harder it will be to cut that money off because it will lead to a Russian victory and all that money would have just been wasted.

Russia will eventually win this war, its just a matter of when the money supply to Ukraine comes to an end.

I find this topic a bit confusing as there seem to be several separate legal regimes and aid/appropriation authorities that are being used. I think this article has three main points of interest that are related to these aid pools:

1. Congressionally authorized DoD stock drawdown (these are pieces of aid equipment from the current DoD stockpile I think): $3.85b of authority left.

2. Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (these are funds that are Kyiv can only use to purchase new equipment from defense contractors): "Those tranches of money, had been announced roughly every 44 days under the Biden administration. The last of them was announced on Dec. 30."

3. No new aid (ie beyond what has already been allocated) so far for Ukraine under Trump 47.

Can someone tell me if there are any additional wonky/obscure legal regimes being used to send aid to Ukraine? Or is it from these two pools (DoD drawdown and USAI pool) only, that are responsible for funneling all the aid?

PM_ME_UR_LOST_WAGES

Paywall-less: [https://archive.is/Xg3O2](https://archive.is/Xg3O2)

Where does Ukraine go from here? How long will they last after weapons shipments stop?

Is this Trump playing hardball to get negotiations back on track?

lion342

Unless Europe can speed up their weapons production in the next few months it looks like Ukraine is in deep, deep trouble.

zuppa_de_tortellini

Seriously, does any diplomacy and treaty with the US or any country that shares a similar electoral system still make sense, if a change of leading party can cause such a drastic change of policy? Not just support for Ukraine, the Iranian nuclear thing as well. Sure they are both Trump behavior and he won't hve another term, but obviously Trumpism gets votes, and who knows if future candidates will run on similar premises and administrative style?

NFossil

This leaves out a fucktun of locations. The big three contractors have locations in almost every state. Source: I work at one. 

Ok, it's technically true. 

So, what's happening is already existing stock of weapons/ordnance/ammunition of the US military is going to be sent to the receptient nations. It's the purchase value of those weapons that's in the bill. 

The US military will offcourse need to restock on what is now being sent. So they are now placing orders towards the relevant defense contractors to do so.

Daminica

So what's actually happening is that the US is sending these nations (Ukraine, Isreal, Taiwan) older US weapons and replacing them with modern, up to date ones.

DrunkCommunist619

I understand the point of this map, but it’s weird that it leaves out the headquarters for Northrop Grumman near Chicago. Based on that, I assume that it leaves out all corporate offices— which will obviously benefit as well.

Preds-poor_and_proud

Is there a reason none of these companies are in those 11 states to the north west?

Calm-Maintenance-878

ArchimedesHeel

Number of American Employees

RTX: 182,000

Honeywell: 34,000

Lockheed: 122,000

BAE: 31,000

General Dynamics: 84,000

Northrop Grumman: 100,000

L3 Harris: 47,000

Etc etc.

aflyingsquanch

Me reading RTX and instantly thinking about graphic cards 😅😑

eternityXclock

It always works out so well for us whenever we send weapons overseas

comosedicewaterbed

Sending military support to Israel is CRAZY

Future_Meaning1109

Israel's money is without strings though.  Every other country has to use the SA money on equipment but Israel, who get cash and can use it to build roads or whatever.

knuckboy

Lockheed Martin has a factory in Marietta, Georgia.

ExtensionBright8156

Is this part of the military industrial complex I hear about?

Monte721

dulcedeteta

SlightofhandLLC01

lay_tze

As an Australian (your actual best ally) can we get some money next time?

Don’t worry,he’s borrowing from china

Allied_Craftworker

Welcome to the truth and to the military industrial complex. 
Redistribution of wealth from the many hard working to the few elites.

modsarefacsit

This map shows the political reality that creates the Forever Wars. Military Industrial Complex jobs are dispersed amongst enough Congressional districts that it's virtually impossible to get enough politicians to divest from our bloated military because doing so might cost their district jobs.

holosophos

This is important to know...that US Aid goes into the pockets of the US weapons manufacturers. So all those billions just go to enrich the rich while being shipped overseas to kill the poor. I hate the industrial war machine.

el_sunny_ra

The OP didn’t do this, but I hate the lazy argument that foreign aid is good because it benefits US defense contractors. That’s Exhibit A of the broken window fallacy. Every dollar taxed (or more realistically borrowed/printed) to go to foreign aid and defense contractors is one less dollar that could go to other, more productive purposes. I think there’s a lot more productive purposes that money could go towards than building shit that gets blown up.

FlyHog421

And American citizens are struggling to get by....

ihatereddit4200

I was kicked off medicaid with no warning. Apparently it's a new law that requires us to reapply every year. Let's be honest, it's just another way to make you give up or lose coverage. Meanwhile we give billions to Israel that has universal health care.  What are we doing

EbbNo7045

I’m sitting inside one of those dots right now.

elmananamj

A trillion dollars in interest and you can't afford groceries. They might as well just authorized a 2T dollar package, over the next 5 years it'll be as much anyways.

VarusAlmighty

The U.S. has halted key weapons deliveries to Ukraine, raising concerns about Ukraine's defense amid ongoing Russian aggression.

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