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.
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.
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.
The US is a $20 trillion economy. Russia is sweeping through Ukraine at an impressively slow rate considering how little we are supporting them relative to the size of our economy.
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.
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).
Well if Ukraine did not have the American made weapons, they would have folded in less than a month. The United States has spent close to 100B in aid for Ukraine in the last 6 months and other amounts of money by the EU as aid. All told it is about 5-10x Russia’s yearly military budget.
All in all, Russia is a very weak country with less than 1.5T GDP. As a result, any infusion of huge sum on money by external actors will tilt the balance in the favor of the party that gets the money .
Don't buy the disinformation;not much of that money was actually sent to Ukraine, most of the money stays in the US. [0]
The US not funding school lunch programs, affordable housing, homeless programs is not a problem of lacking resources. It's an ideological decision. The help sent to Ukraine is actually negligible.[1]
There's more than enough money to go around; just look at the US's regular defense budget. This money being pushed to the MIC instead of to citizens in need is a conscious decision.
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.
The US economy alone is over 10x that of Russia. The US can fairly easily send enough military aid to Ukraine that matching it would eat more than all of Russia's yearly GDP growth. In other words they'd slowly strange Russia's economy over time. And it'd cost the US about as much as they spent on Afghanistan pet year and that was sustained for over two decades.
And all that matters to the discussion how? We're talking about the long term economic impact on the US of supporting this war. By your own math each tax payer already pays $75k/year to support the federal budget. An extra 1.5% isn't going to destroy or slow down the economy even if it's literally burned. And as others have pointed out that 1.5% will mostly go back into the US economy so it's an upper bound on the impact.
Fun fact is that the US made something like $4billion/month last year from gas exports to the EU. Significantly more than previously due to increased demand and increased prices caused by the ongoing Ukraine war. That alone covers half the cost of the aid provided last year. I suspect if you count everything the US aid to Ukraine has already been a net positive for the US economy in terms of ROI.
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.
The US consistently donates $100 Million + to Ukraine in foreign aid per year. The notion of "Well they're not following copyright law so we're going to sanction them" is absurd; nobody follows US copyright law. Not even the US.
reply