How much money did the “Cold War” cost ? For 70+ years the US military focused on overcoming the USSR, and now we ARE faced with it being revived. The cost of stopping that is minor compared to what it will be if Ukraine is overrun and the benefit our military is gaining by seeing how our old and in some cases obsolete equipment works is well worth the cost. Much of the “AID” is the new cost and not the true amount, plus much has been pulled from storage. Do you even remember our military giving equipment to police departments to get rid of it , that was done to avoid storage and to make room for new equipment. SO Stop using the inflated numbers. NOW you think we should help our Veterans, Police, First Responders and General Welfare of our Citizens ? THEN stop funding BULLSHIT, the first Close the Border by letting Immigration and law enforcement do their JOB. Second eliminate the cost of funding the education of our youth to believe Men can become pregnant and breast feed babies or it is OK to perform strip shows for schools( K-12th grade). and third eliminate the waste in our welfare and social giveaways. Our politicians have gutted the Social Security funds for to long . and last but not only, put term limits on Politicians so they do not have time to learn how to pervert our Judicial and Legislative systems.
Wanted to cut this out, as it is exactly how I feel.
Fear monger much? SMH!
LOL You take things too seriously and too literally. When looking at all the bad things that have occurred under the Biden regime, oh, uh… “administration”, one needs a little levity. Social media censorship, again, still, for $100 Alex. 
Bird Flu redux for $200. 
They are not “Conservatives”.
We just keep running up our deficit and debt. Once our interest on the deficit is more than our tax revenue, it’s over…Gov. will print money to pay it, inflation will rise uncontrollably, and we will be in no shape to help Taiwan. China owns almost $1 trillion of our debt! How do you think that will play out?
I’ve always thought of that as the saving grace. They have/want to protect their own pocket books.
Talks about Russian Ukrainian war
I think it’s a double edged sword for China to be honest depending upon the Administration in Office. Because if they got to crazy, I would tell them to FAFO and good freaking luck collecting.
I’m no economist, so correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems to me to be a double edged sword as well. I say that from this standpoint, China’s economy is not great (one child policy anyone?). So if they cut us off and we stop sending them all of our manufacturing stuff, it seems to me that fits their economy as well, am I right?
Seems like they need us for our overactive consumerism. 
One child policy ended in 2016.
Perhaps. My opinion was we screwed up bad when the Clinton Administration helped start this Globalization of trade. I always felt that American Companies made a mistake when they started off shoring their industrial production to Asia. I, personally, felt we should have invested into Central, and South America. As well as the Caribbean. It would have generated more long term profitability in my opinion. Logistics would have been much simpler and easier, and raised the QOL and led to much better relationships. Which would have led to stability for our land based borders, and increased security overall.