Finances – Weapons vs Environment

The below gives us an interesting insight in our Political priorities today.

From an article on the ABC Australia, by Samantha Hawley.

these are snippets:

According to the Center for International Policy (CIP) — a US-based group monitoring US military spending and weapons — Congress has approved $US54 billion ($70 billion) in aid to Ukraine since the invasion on February 24.

If you look at the scale and magnitude and speed, it’s really staggering,” Hanna Homestead, an associate from CIP, told ABC News Daily.

“When you think about comparing that to some other things in the US budget, our space agency NASA’s budget is only $US24 billion ($35 billion).”

“We only allocated $US1 billion ($1.44 billion) to climate finance, which has really important effects in countries all over the world.”

Last week, the US pledged another $US1 billion ($1.44 billion) in weapons and aid for Ukraine, amid an urgent call from Kyiv for more advanced arms.

“There are a lot of concerns around tracking and making sure these weapons end up where they’re supposed to belong and don’t fall into the wrong hands.”

CIP is also concerned about the possibility of weapons trafficking.

“Ukraine in particular has a history of an illicit arms trade that really took off actually in the 1990s after the fall of the Soviet Union. And these arms were in Ukraine and have actually ended up in places all over the world,” Ms Homestead said.

So far the US congress has approved funding until September.

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words fail me.