- Ukraine is getting the upper hand against Russian invasion with help from allies (including Biden Admin)
Trump Admin enters the chat:
- Calls Zelensky a dictator
- Says Ukraine “shouldn’t have started the war”
- Humiliates Zelensky before the world in Oval Office
- Lies about Europe sending less aid than the US towards Ukraine
- Profits by reinvesting a big percentage of the war aid in replenishing its own arsenal from donating nearly defunct weapons and replacing them with cutting edge gear, but claims it’s being taken advantage of
- Begins talks with Russia without Ukraine present
- Undermines Zelensky by attempting to manipulate his political opposition behind the scenes
- Says Ukraine better be “ready to lose some land”
- Implies they could shut off starlink support “if they wanted to”
- Cuts off aid packages and strategic intel, costing Ukraine their bargaining chip in Kursk
- Starts a trade war with the whole planet, applying tariffs on everyone except for Russia and its allies
- Attempts to extort Ukraine for 50% of its minerals in perpetuity, in exchange for nothing
- Signals Russia that the US is ready to cozy up to them and lift sanctions
- Bails on Ukraine after realizing “this is harder than it seemed”
Boy, what went wrong? They did everything right since they took office. /s /s /s
Some people are much more valuable staying the heck away on what they’re clearly unqualified for, than with this kind of “help”.
I find it hilarious that you show graphs that entirely support my point as sone kind of gotcha. The other poster put it well. Europe as a whole has given more.
The EU as an institution gave cash and the US has given more arms total. That EU cash comes from the member nations so there are two levels of contribution for each EU country which you can see from the German arms deliveries that are not counted under the EU contribution but it’s still partly German money being sent when an EU contribution happens. It’s conceptually similar to a US state sending separate funding or arms beyond the federal contribution.
The pie chart you show has exactly the same percentage for the US as mine (42.7%) so it’s just a different representation of the same data. That “other” section on your chart (23.1%) includes contributions from 26 other EU countries beyond their EU money which, when coupled together will conveniently bring it to the total in the graph I posted showing Europe (including non-EU like the UK and Norway) as a whole contributing more, as it should.
I also laughed. All they proved is they can’t read.