Please don't take HN threads further into nationalistic flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's actually much simpler for most Americans. The US is the leader of freedom and democracy. The US supports and defends those ideals beyond its own borders. Is the US perfect? No, but what would the world look like today without their leadership? Who would stop the authoritarians from taking over their neighbors?

The numbers are misleading, 8% budget increase is less than inflation and a large part of the aid package to Ukraine is hardware sitting in storage that's already been paid for, but they use the original sticker price.

Meet some Tibetans and ask them if America is as bad a place to live as China. Or ask Somalis or Ethiopians who live in America, or Russians and Ukrainians who live here, or Chinese dissidents, or anyone from Vietnam, Laos or Cambodia who fled to America, just how terrible America's actions were considering the final realities that befell their relatives in those places. Heck, ask Afghans, Lebanese, Iranians, Cubans, Venezuelans who live here. Do you think that other powers don't do much worse things in the parts of the world they control? Have you visited any countries that the US accepts refugees from?