Americans spend $250 billion per year on alcohol.
Americans spend $80 billion per year on cigarettes.
What will you fight for?
Helping a good friend defend its democracy against Putin is money well spent, particularly given Ukraine’s tenacity. [Contrast the years of wasted tax dollars in Afghanistan — a money pit that President Biden had the political courage to end].
Thank God the United States took the lead, bringing NATO and Europe together to have Ukraine’s back. [Ukraine would have been completely abandoned if Trump was in office. Fact.]
Ukraine will be expensive. At least, Americans are not spilling bed. That day may still come.
At present, it appears the US support (financial, weapons/equipment, leadership) have made a substantial difference.