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while pausing the “aid” may save the US gov money; the money was mostly coming back to the US anyway in the form of weapons purchases. NYT:

> The order takes effect immediately and affects more than $1 billion in arms and ammunition in the pipeline and on order. Mr. Trump’s directive also halts hundreds of millions of dollars in aid that Kyiv can use only to buy new military hardware directly from U.S. defense companies.

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And everyone in Europe will want our governments and armies to stop buying stuff made in the US, especially weapons and ammo.

Why support your country with our money if you don't want to support us at all?

Your defence companies will face huge losses because of this.

Those F35s are a security risk at this point. Better migrate to Typhoons, Rafales and Gripens etc and have some unified research re radars and missiles to split costs.

I hate this argument. Yeah, billions of dollars flowing to arms manufacturers is a stimulus. But in an inflationary/supply constrained economy, that stimulus is actually not what we need — we need to reduce the demand on the military’s inputs

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