and the money is pretty much spent in forms of usa weapons on the ground already.... the bill is a choice between let them keep the weapons for free or make them pay.
Could we condition out aid on not being able to use it to buy American made weapons?
Yeah, I know...no.
Well, can we at least avoid sending it through Ukraine first? There is a lot of “Shrink” there.
the bill is a choice between let them keep the weapons for free or make them pay.
We are going to make them pay for our stuff by giving them our money to pay us with?
Speaking of letting them keep our stuff for free sounds suspiciously like they have been given our stuff without the needed congressional authorization. The bill would only to paper over what has already been done without congressional authorization.
If what you imply is accurate, then perhaps a good choice would be to throw the responsible officials in prison, and let them work for ten cents an hour until they pay back the $60B they owe to the people.