The quote from OP was "The US has provided more funding to Ukraine than the world combined by a large margin". Which is just completely false. Now you're just moving goalposts.
If you go by military support of Ukraine, this is not true. It's only valid if you include things like humanitarian support. If the US passes its support bill, it would be on equal footing with all aid to Ukraine from Europe, including humanitarian support.
25% comes from the US, but if you order by GDP(second graph), US is fourth. So overall a very big contribution, but far from "all". And about "negotiations" specifically, you're simply wrong - the ones keeping an open line with Putin (for zero gain so far) are Macron and Scholz (both say it's with Zelensky's approval, and he hasn't disproven them so they're probably not lying).
Military help from EU countries is higher than US, humanitarian help is multiple times higher and so is financial help.
If US passes the bill then it will somewhat catch up. IF it passes. Perhaps it decides to degrade its international standing even more instead, who knows.
Yes, the European Union is the biggest financial supporter of Ukraine and that excludes single European countries contributions.
US tops the military aid, that's most certainly true and it greatly benefits US defense contractors and their workers.
edit: seems like people having problems at reading, as I've said US indeed tops military help which is what the following comment(s) include.
What seems people don't understand is that this kind of (military) help, albeit absolutely critical to Ukraine, is money that stays in US. Every himars rocket fired by Ukraine it's 170k $ being paid to Lockheed Martin.
But does it change the more significant point of the US being Ukraine's most important partner in terms of military support? I was countering the narrative that the US is not a good partner. As internet forums do, everyone globbed onto the specific number, not the point being made.
>considering how little the US has actually given to Ukraine.
This page says that since Feb 2022, the US has spent $175 billion helping Ukraine, of which $107 billion consists of transfers (of money, weapons and military equipment) to the government of Ukraine:
Spending on Ukraine is a rounding error compared to overall defense spending:
https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/russia-ukraine/
"For context, the $24B the U.S. has spent on security assistance to Ukraine amounts to less than three percent of last year’s defense budget."
...and most of that money never actually left the country.
Direct quotes from the US state department website:
Ukraine is a key regional strategic partner that has undertaken significant efforts to reform its military and increase its interoperability with NATO.
Since 2014, the United States has committed more than $5.6 billion in total assistance to Ukraine, including security and non-security assistance. In 2021 alone we committed over $300 million in assistance to support Ukraine’s democratic and economic development, and over $650 million in security assistance.
Of course according to the repeated pronouncements of everyone ranging from their President to Foreign Minister to Defense Minister to the ambassadors.
The US and UK governments have been formally and repeatedly asked for help.
This information is also constantly in the news. The US has provided almost $3 Billion in military aid to Ukraine in the past several years alone. The UK has also provided significant amounts of aid. Ditto for NATO. All of these are not 'forced' on Ukraine!
My point, as I'm sure you are aware, is that the US is by far the largest supporter of Ukraine. The fact that the entire world narrowly edges out the US regarding military support does not detract from that fact.
As I've said, I agree now that the world has pledged to give more support to Ukraine than the US currently has. However, I do not see how that changes the more significant point. Perhaps you can explain to me(with less snark and condescension) how the US is a bad partner, but the rest are great.
You are not rephrasing, you are moving the goal posts, you said:
> The US has provided more funding to Ukraine than the world combined by a large margin, and the lesson you take away is that the US is somehow at fault.
No, it has not provided more funding to Ukraine than the world combined, the EU by itself has provided more military aid than the US already.
You're just wrong. It's not hard to admit that, trying to save face just made it worse...
Which country is providing more than the US? The only thing that matters is the absolute numbers. Ukraine doesn't care if Moldova contributes 10% of its GDP because it amounts to nothing compared to 1% of US GDP.
You sound insane. The US has provided $75,000,000,000 of aid despite Ukraine being a European backwater that is not a member of NATO. It’d be great if the USA had something to show for all that aid, but Ukraine has made zero progress in its counteroffensive. It’s only fair that we question the value of the ongoing billions.
For reference, $75B is more than the US spends annually on federal highways. It is not a small amount and it has real impact on the budget.
Pick "Military" only in the chart, add up the numbers of, Germany, UK, Denmark, Norway, and Netherlands, and you'll get a higher number than the US.
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