"This morning, Ukraine’s military was forced to withdraw from Avdiivka after Ukrainian soldiers had to ration ammunition due to dwindling supplies as a result of congressional inaction, resulting in Russia’s first notable gains in months," the White House statement said.
They’re not actually free, they’re being provided under bilateral aid agreements. If Ukraine survives the war it’s going to be saddled with an enormous amount of debt.
The screw here is that countries giving can use the debt to fiddle their own books, making their economies look better than they really are (because they know Ukraine will never be able to pay it all back).
They won’t be required to pay it back like that, that is a propaganda talking point.
What’s your source for saying it’s a propaganda talking point?
Here is my source for it all being bilateral aid: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1303432/total-bilateral-aid-to-ukraine/
Do you wish to challenge the definition of “bilateral”?
My goal here isn’t to say that Ukraine shouldn’t be funded - it absolutely should, and I believe doing so is essential to global security. My goal here is to call out the people who seek to exploit this war as an opportunity to sell more weapons and profit from death.
In that sense, many world leaders are in fact in league with Putin. Putin plays the bad guy, but they all profit, while general people and societies suffer.
But hey, they need to “thin the heard” in order to mitigate the other issues their ramptant exploitation is causing, such that they can continue to profit unabated. So I guess war is inevitable /s.
War is about making money, primarily from selling weapons. There are secondary objectives as well, but the real goal is always money.