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When governments are paying to keep wars running outside their borders, the impact will come on the economy and affect the buying power of end customers. If we
by bossguy 3y ago
When governments are paying to keep wars running outside their borders, the impact will come on the economy and affect the buying power of end customers. If we see how wars are expanding, 2024 seems difficult, I hope this is a wrong analogy.
- ActorNightly 3y agoYou can look at stats for spending on Ukraine and compare it to overall total spending. The percentages are very small.
- outlore 3y agoMore than half of the budget goes to defense and military Source: https://www.nationalpriorities.org/analysis/2023/warfare-state-how-funding-militarism-compromises-our-welfare/ https://www.nationalpriorities.org/analysis/2023/warfare-sta...
- rossdavidh 3y agoSpending on Ukraine is a rounding error compared to overall defense spending: https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/russia-ukraine/ https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/russia-ukraine/ "For context, the $24B the U.S. has spent on security assistance to Ukraine amounts to less than three percent of last year’s defense budget." ...and most of that money never actually left the country.