Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.[1][5

do americans just not understand that bombs kill people and the people they hurt are real

also for a government the sums listed are just petty cash

Look! We're actually profiting off of prolonging the bombing of Ukrainian civilians

What kind of monster do you have to be to look at that map and be like:

"Oh wow, all this prolonged destruction and suffering makes it so I can buy two or three new video games...I guess I love the war and the ghouls, wait not anymore...Noble Patriots that are causing this!"

Oh right...

<-that kind

Do you know how many jobs that dead Palestinian child created in Pennsylvania? Still think that genocide is bad tankie?

My dad has openly told me that he supports Ukraine because his job at the docks gets more money when the US government ships military equipment

Literal warmongers

They’re not gonna stop until they cause WW3 for fucks sake

“As Department of Defense leaders have said previously, support for Ukraine has mobilized the U.S. defense industrial base, in ways that haven’t been seen in decades,” DOD spokesperson Jeff Jurgensen said in a statement when asked for comment. “Our industry partners all across the nation have stepped up to meet the kind of production, manufacturing and infrastructure investment capabilities to directly support U.S. commitments to Ukraine — and that will build the kind of industrial base capacity we need for the future.”

bolded ominous statement is ominous

This is liquidating the lives and livelihoods of people in a country the average citizen couldn't find on an unlabeled map again.

"Listen Jack, I know you have Raytheon shares too..."

Washington only saw $28 million in "supplemental impact"? Did Boeing miss out on the military contracts?

Holy fucking christ did they seriously write this article and not frame it as a hit piece but something totally normal? Satire is truly dead Holy fuck

I’m sure these numbers are not made up and it’s just a total coincidence that 3 key battleground electoral states (Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin) are all dark blue and Michigan is nearly there too.

The one time I'm actually alright with Alaska being left off the U.S map