Chapter 12: The Budget: 10 for 1 Deal for Peace

36. Best Budget Tracking Ever

Tomi Lahren has taken this sudden interest in America’s homeless with her brilliant budgeting solutions. We could save 500,000 homeless with the money spent on the war in Ukraine, she explains. 

We get the same from all Putin Supporters: 

infrastructure, schools, borders, healthcare – and the list goes on. 

Right wingers forget that this is true of our entire US military budget. The $10 trillion spent over the last 10 years on the Pentagon would cover most every domestic issue. 

Do they now suggest we gut our military budget for domestic needs? 

Oooopps, most Conservatives don’t want to go there. The point: Ukraine’s value is found in compare to those of a military expense, not as a domestic one – unless, of course, Republicans wish to talk of gutting military spending (for which I agree, but recognize as a different point). 

Here we see how critics conflate issues rather than the contradiction of them. 

Of America’s $10 trillion military budget of this last decade, how much was spent in preparation for a Russian conflict? 

Let’s go with 30%. That’s $3 trillion already spent on the Russian threat. You can go with a larger sum – or smaller. The point remains: 

What do we have to show for this $3 trillion? 

Very hard to say.

Now, let’s take that same $3 trillion already spent in response to the Russia threat. Compare that to the $100 billion given to Ukraine. It’s just 3% this Russian budget. This is a fair comparison between like kind versus counting the homeless. 

Works out about the same if done on an annual basis: $1 trillion a year budget. $100 billion given to Ukraine – over 2 years = 5% of the total budget. 

Ukraine also gives us a clearly defined cost breakdown with this direct link to performance and impact. 

 We can draw this straight line from every $1 million spent for Ukraine and connect it to 3 to 8 destroyed Russian planes, trains, tanks, trucks, ships, soldiers, missiles, outposts and supplies. All of them now permanently removed from Russia’s arsenal. 

How rare to find this level of accounting between military spending and specific battlefield performance. 

Let’s say every $1 million spent on Ukraine removed 4 Russian military assets. The $100 billion spent so far means we just knocked out 400,000 Russian assets. This probably matches up. Worth looking into. 

By the calculations of this example means that a single year of America’s military budget would destroy 4 million Russian assets. That’s the end of Russia’s entire military. In other words, we can now connect a clearly defined performance to each segment of the budget.

This seems a better measure to judge Ukraine by rather than Tommi’s homeless count. 

Hence, Putin’s increasing threats of nuclear retaliation. He simply cannot maintain that level of losses. 

Putin Supporters fail to recognize this side of Ukraine’s performance in both military terms as well as budgetary one. On the one side, Ukraine is exhausting Russia’s supplies at an exponential rate, while offering the single most effective military accounting - in decades.

The US military is notorious for their trillions lost, wasted, stolen or unaccounted for like the $2 trillion Rumsfeld admitted to. 

A better example maybe the $3 trillion spent preparing to fight Russin over the last decade, but suddenly struggles to provide $100 billion worth of arms and support for it. What ever happened to the other $2.9 billion? 

By compare, Ukraine is the closest thing we have to budget discipline – maybe ever. 



How dare politicians point to Ukraine corruption for the $400 million lost on their $100 billion budget. If only the US, in any gov’t agency, could have so little unaccounted for. That would be covered in a few weeks of personal wages.