That just seems really low to me. I know, I know, 125 million dollars is nothing to sneeze at. I’m not saying it’s a pitiful amount…
But it seems like only a year ago we were seeing headlines of us contributing BILLIONS of dollars in military support.
And even WITH that, I’m seeing Zelenskyy saying how he STILL needs ammunition.
Now, maybe whats happening here is that innitially we were sending them expensive equipment, like tanks, and planes, and rocket launchers. And maybe now those equipment still stand, but need ammunition. And ammunition, while a neverending expense, is still cheaper up front than the equipment meant to fire that ammunition.
Maybe thats whats happening, and I’m just an idiot. I’ll FULLY admit to being an idiot when it comes to the finer points of international weapons distribution, and global politics in a vacume that threatens to be the wick that ignites WWIII.
I’ll fully admit to maybe not understanding things in the full scale of things.
But reactionary kneejerk reactions, are are 125 million is LESS than the billions we previously were donating.
That being said, Cleveland got hit with some tornados on Tuesday, and I’ve been without power for a few days. So I have no salvagable food in my fridge, only beer. I tried ordering a pizza and some wings, but they wanted $70 before tip and delivery. So now I’m sitting here on Lemmy, just got power back today, 6 beers deep on an empty stomach trying to debate the global ramifications of obliterating russia.