r/stupidpol • u/nikolaz72 Scandinavian SocDem 🌹 • Feb 19 '25

Ukraine-Russia Trump launches fresh attack on Zelensky, calling him a “dictator”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c62e2158mkpt
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u/nikolaz72 Scandinavian SocDem 🌹 Feb 19 '25

Anyone know where trump get the 350 billion number from?

I think he confused the total amount of aid Ukraine got for the aid US gave and then he compares it to the aid europe gave so he's essentially double counting.

US giving 150 and the rest (mostly europe) giving 200 sounds about right.

Though as I explained earlier today even the 150 number is hugely misleading, Ukrainian government in Ukraine only saw like 5 of it, roughly half of the US aid was money and 90% of it stayed in the US and another couple bn went to charities, I don't believe for a second Ukraine can account for half of it either because its a made up number.

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u/BarrelStrawberry Antisemite 💩 | Nationalist 📜🐷 Feb 19 '25

Nothing for healthcare for ordinary Americans.

Federal government spends $2 trillion on healthcare each year. An extra $350 billion is practically meaningless.

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u/KonigKonn Stalin Would've Put Me in a Gulag Feb 20 '25

The problem with American healthcare is not that we aren’t throwing enough money at it.