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Biden Has Spent More On Ukraine Aid Than The Total Cost Of Afghanistan War
By Paul Aubert February 25, 2023 Updated:February 26, 2023
The United States has spent more money funding the Russia/Ukraine conflict, a war they are not directly involved in, than they did throughout the 9-year-long Afghanistan war.
Since the war’s beginning in Feb. 2022, President Joe Biden has sent a total of $46.6 billion in financial aid to Ukraine, as of Jan. 15, 2023, Statista reported. While it took 9 years for the U.S. to spend $43.3 billion in the Afghanistan conflict, it took less than one year for the U.S. to exceed that number.
The Biden-directed funding for Ukraine makes the Russia-Ukraine conflict the most expensive war conflict the United States has funded in the past four decades.
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In fairness, the vast majority of Afghanistan spending occurred under Obama/Biden. As did the number of casualties.
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And... ultimately... the result will be the same as it was in Afghanistan:
Wasted money.
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That article is completely ludicrous. For starters, just to show they have no idea what they're talking about, there's this:
The United States has spent more money funding the Russia/Ukraine conflict, a war they are not directly involved in, than they did throughout the 9-year-long Afghanistan war.
9 years???? We had U.S. troops in country and also were supplying Afghan troops with weapons, ammon, and other support for just short of 20 freaking years. So right off the bat, that's clear evidence that they are being either deliberately deceptive, or just don't know what the hell they're talking about.
Even forgetting the cost of all the ammo, fuel etc., we expended on ourselves and on the Afghan army, all the equipment that was destroyed/damaged, the cost of paying our troops plus funding the Afghan army for 20 years, - forgetting all that - we left over 20 billion dollars worth of equipment and rolling stock behind when we left. Does anyone actually believe that other than that particular stuff we left, we only spent $1B/year??
So clearly, the claim that we only spent $40 billion in Afghanistan over the cost of 20 years, just 2 billion dollars a year, is a joke. The actual cost ranges from somewhere between $850 billion to well over a trillion dollars.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/02/08/fact-check-post-distorts-us-expenditures-ukraine-afghanistan/11149759002/
Apparently, whoever wrote that article got their 40 billion dollar figure from a report that said that in terms of just humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, We spent approximately $40 billion during the period 2001 through 2009.
So, not only does the number cover less than half of the war, it also ignores all military spending on Afghanistan, not just supporting our own forces, but also including all the support we gave to the Afgham army over that 20 years.
So the only real question is whether the person who wrote that article is just a fool, or a liar.