this USA = knight in shining armor mindset is baffling to me. it didn't even apply to WW2 when you start to learn what actually happened, and the fact that washington will happily sacrifice millions upon the altar of geopolitics doesn't mean those people died for a worthy cause, or that europe should be even further in debt to them as gratitude.
"protect europe"? from what? from the russia they intentionally antagonize? because it's certainly not protecting europe from the millions of migrants that are taking the opportunity to run away from the shitholes that USA keeps carpet bombing. europe and russia had been getting along fine since USSR fell, and that PRECISELY was the problem for washington. that was and is the sole purpose of nato expansionism. it needs europe to be dependent on it, as vassal states. it needs an external threat to achieve that. this is how geopolitics works. there is no altruism. EU leaders in return invariably support US foreign policy. it's a protection racket.
but anyway, of that figure you referenced, it wasn't aid sent to "europe", it was ukraine (should have been obvious but whatever), another CIA-sponsored designer war. you can see how UK, France, Portugal and Norway received laughable amounts of US military foreign aid in 2023:
also this page has a cool graph at the bottom where you can select different countries to see how much US military aid they received over the years:
https://usafacts.org/articles/how-much-does-the-us-give-other-countries-in-military-aid/
sadly it stops short at 2020 but that graph for ukraine for the last 4 years is absolutely retarded by comparison:
https://www.stephensemler.com/p/updated-figures-us-aid-to-ukraine
this USA = knight in shining armor mindset is baffling to me. it didn't even apply to WW2 when you start to learn what actually happened, and the fact that washington will happily sacrifice millions upon the altar of geopolitics doesn't mean those people died for a worthy cause, or that europe should be even further in debt to them as gratitude.
"protect europe"? from what? from the russia they intentionally antagonize? because it's certainly not protecting europe from the millions of migrants that are taking the opportunity to run away from the shitholes that USA keeps carpet bombing. europe and russia had been getting along fine since USSR fell, and that PRECISELY was the problem for washington. that was and is the sole purpose of nato expansionism. it needs europe to be dependent on it, as vassal states. it needs an external threat to achieve that. this is how geopolitics works. there is no altruism. EU leaders in return invariably support US foreign policy. it's a protection racket.
but anyway, of that figure you referenced, it wasn't aid sent to "europe", it was ukraine (should have been obvious but whatever), another CIA-sponsored designer war. you can see how UK, France, Portugal and Norway received laughable amounts of US military foreign aid in 2023:
this USA = knight in shining armor mindset is baffling to me. it didn't even apply to WW2 when you start to learn what actually happened, and the fact that washington will happily sacrifice millions upon the altar of geopolitics doesn't mean those people died for a worthy cause, or that europe should be even further in debt to them as gratitude.
"protect europe"? from what? from the russia they intentionally antagonize? because it's certainly not protecting europe from the millions of migrants that are taking the opportunity to run away from the shitholes that USA keeps carpet bombing. europe and russia had been getting along fine since USSR fell, and that PRECISELY was the problem for washington. that was and is the sole purpose of nato expansionism. it needs europe to be dependent on it, as vassal states. this is how geopolitics works. there is no altruism.
but anyway, of that figure you referenced, it wasn't aid sent to "europe", it was ukraine (should have been obvious but whatever), another CIA-sponsored designer war. you can see how UK, France, Portugal and Norway received laughable amounts of US military foreign aid in 2023: