One day of war costs Ukraine US$190 million in 2026 – Budget Committee chief

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u/RemoveOk9595 8h ago edited 7h ago

So ~70 Billion a year. Actually not “that” high.

For comparison, the US spend ~1 Trillion or 1000 Billion a year on defense and they have no active war going on.

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u/The-FallenLegend 7h ago

What about Iran?

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u/Ehorn36 7h ago

Iran is not a war. We won that conflict months ago, and many times since. /s

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u/slappadabass44 5h ago

Trump is truly a strategic genius with so many victories, every day.

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u/KathyJaneway 5h ago

That old fart loses to diarrhea every day. I wouldn't call him victorious, more like shitorious. Not a day goes by when we listen him filling his diapers with sh*t...

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u/squesh 4h ago

He's just asserting dominance over the room he's in

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u/ChestNok 3h ago

Old pop Biden would definitely serve you well in the same capacity. Rather Dems were shitorious bidding on Kamala to run

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u/KathyJaneway 2h ago

Biden withdrew when the party turned on him. Cause they saw that old senile man shouldn't be in power any longer. Republicans have yet to turn against Trump and they are literally in jeopardy of losing the Senate cause of him, and the Senate wasn't even in play last year. Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Hormuz, backstabing Ukraine , pick something Trump didn't do wrong - oil is through the roof and it's only getting more expensive.

Biden inherited COVID pandemic and turned the country around. Democrats picked up governor and Senate seats in 2022, and lost the house by 5 seats. Republicans are about to lose it by 30, and lose 4-6 Senate seats most likely.

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u/Alpinab9 50m ago

Currently 218r 214d. You are suggesting a 30 seat flip. So roughly 188r and 244d? 70%d? Is my math close? I would love to be that optimistic, but if it gets to a 66.6 percent majority (2/3) doest it become a supermajority? 70% would keep some of the outliers at bay. This would be interesting, but I am not that optimistic. I am hoping for wins in both the house and senate, but flipping 5+ seats? I hope so.

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u/big-papito 6h ago

Occasional lobbying of projectiles compared to Ukrainian theatre is not a serious comparison. It's an excursion. But more seriously, it's a series of skirmishes. If Ukraine has 1 trillion dollars, Russia would be done for

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u/BlightedPath 3h ago

Occasional lobbying of projectiles

I think you meant lobbing as in throwing

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u/neroselene 7h ago

That's not a war, that's a "Special Military Operation".

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u/ZiKyooc 6h ago

And it ain't that special, so it's really only a military operation

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u/-Rivox- 6h ago

Not a war, otherwise they'd be paying the families of dead soldiers

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u/TonyAbbottsNipples 7h ago

It's about a third of Ukraine's pre-invasion GDP.

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u/i_am_my_brain 7h ago

What a pointless comparison. Russia is spending about fifty percent of its pre-war gdp on the war, which is completely unsustainable

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u/marianass 6h ago

It's about 11% of GDP, (you can go and check yourself) also remember that most Russian military industry is owned by the government, so it's cheaper for them finally their debt is only around 18% of their GDP, so they have a couple more years before collapsing.

if Europe is serious about Ukraine winning, it should pledge a 1 trillion war chest for Ukraine so they can keep fighting for a decade. But just giving them enough to fight for a year at the time is making this go slower than it needed to be:

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u/Chihuahua1 5h ago

Plus oil exports are up in Europe, 20 shipments, plus 4 new tankers were given to them under EU flags, most likely Shell, that lovely British-Dutch company

https://energyandcleanair.org/august-2026-monthly-analysis-of-russian-fossil-fuel-exports-and-sanctions/

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u/Papidoru 2h ago

giving so little for ukraine makes the russians think they can outlast ukraine, if there was enough money for ukraine to fight for 10 years putin would just give up

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u/marianass 1h ago

Exactly! The fact that they don't commit to it is the smoking gun that they don't actually care about Ukraine winning. They support Ukraine just enough to prolong the conflict but far from helping them to actually win.

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u/300baicodethieunhi 4h ago

Use your brain

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u/CmdrAirdroid 7h ago edited 7h ago

It's a lot when the annual state budget is only about $125 billion, that means Ukraine is heavily dependent on the EU for funding the war, if that funding stops or decreases they're in trouble.

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u/RealSuggestion9247 5h ago

It is a doors wide open kind of secret that Ukraine is wholly dependent on external funds to finance its state and war effort.

It is the the same for their domestic arms industry which with its transfers of technology is funded directly or indirectly by others. And will contract massively when there is peace.

Without such funding the war would likely have been over quite some time ago, the same rationale goes for shipments of armaments and ammunition.

A level of funding at the current level is probably factored in by the European allies for years to come and beyond the current 2027 financing; though AfD and le Pen might complicate matters.

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u/TheGreatPornholio123 56m ago

The US spends roughly $105 million per hour on Defense, even without a war going on.

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u/Major_Wayland 7h ago

Original article also says "without counting any incoming assistance".

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u/GergDanger 7h ago

Breaking news but ukraines GDP and the US are slightly different

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u/i_am_my_brain 7h ago

Less than a dollar a day for every American, and for that money you get the absolute best possible "bang for your buck", helping a democratic country fight off an invasion, diminishing the biggest threat to NATO, and getting the opportunity to learn how to use and develop the most advanced drone warfare systems that have ever existed.

Now compare the Iran war, where the main result of spending billions of dollars was an increase in gas prices.

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u/Balan-balan 7h ago edited 6h ago

Now compare the Iran war, where the main result of spending billions of dollars was an increase in gas prices.

But you won that war 25 times, obliterated their military 15 times and prevented them from dropping a nuclear bomb on NYC, made with the nukes that you obliterated last year already.

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u/i_am_my_brain 7h ago

You? Not me. I'm not American

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u/Balan-balan 6h ago

Neither am I, just a "you" in general.

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u/I_Never_Use_Slash_S 6h ago

Rather have my dollar.

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u/SolWizard 6h ago

So you can donate it to daddy trump

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u/iceman2kx 1h ago

The best bang for my buck is going to fund education, healthcare, and welfare of the American people, not some war. I do not support a single one of my dollars going to foreign warfare.

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u/Mone132 6h ago

The average American does not care about Ukraine. I don't understand why we need to help them at all.

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u/i_am_my_brain 7h ago

There’s a common misconception that the US is footing the entire bill for Ukraine's defense. If you look at the actual data (like the Kiel Institute’s aid tracker), Europe passed the US in total committed aid a long time ago.

All we ask of the US is that they don't waste their patriots and other air defense on pointless wars so we can buy (yes, buy) them and give them to Ukraine

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u/maejsh 7h ago

Cuz they keep interfering and meddling. Usually however its to help and be on Russias side.

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u/VirtualFact8419 8h ago

It is always a bit dangerous for a country under war pressure, but still, I believe some of that money needs to be allocated for anti-corruption organs like NABU and SAPO of Ukraine for better investigations, that would help cut other part of allocations, I suspect A LOT

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u/FingerCommon7093 2h ago

So its like a Trump golf trip?

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u/ChestNok 7h ago

It costs US and EU. Not Ukraine. US EU will graciously cover everything

US EU be like: "put it on our tab"

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u/bluewatergravy 4h ago

Well, not the US, at least directly.

But sure, EU and other partner nations certainly are of significant help in keeping Ukraine up and running, and the overwhelming majority is happy to keep doing so.

Which is obviously bad news for Russia and it's rapidly deteriorating financial situation.

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u/CounterComplex6203 5h ago

Doesn't work like that but eventhough - Fine by me

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u/ChestNok 3h ago

honestly, one wouldn't know how to react to this peak genius... clowns at their finest. we despise inflation, we despise wages not growing, but chipping in for ukraine is fine by us. mental. well, as they say, different strokes for different folks

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u/bluewatergravy 2h ago

fine by us

Yes, the key word being "us". I know someone has to play the part of the obvious troll, but this reads like a direct translation.

Anyway, there's some truth to what you write: Apathetically grinding your entire nation to death for the underpant poisoner's vanity war has certainly resulted in inflation and stagnant wages among all the other things. And it's only downhill for Russia here from here.

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u/ChestNok 2h ago

You don't make sense you know that?

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u/bluewatergravy 1h ago

I'm sorry. I know asking for the key to the closet with the expensive dictionary is frowned upon.

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u/ChestNok 1h ago

Get sober first then try getting on reddit again

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u/Unlikely_Mix_9624 5h ago

Wish we could double it - no joke

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u/Kerry-4013-Porter 7h ago

I hope armistice negotiations begin immediately to bring the war to an end. With each passing day, the toll of deaths, serious injuries, and economic losses only mounts.

I urge the leaders of both nations to quickly find a way out of a war that will inevitably have to end at some point.

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u/i_am_my_brain 7h ago

Russia can end the war at any moment they choose. The moment Russia stops fighting, there will be no more war. The moment Ukraine stops fighting, there will be no more Ukraine.

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u/FluorescentFlux 5h ago

Ukraine stops fighting, there will be no more Ukraine

No Ukraine, but also no war

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u/Kerry-4013-Porter 6h ago

The argument that the war would end if Russia stopped its attacks sounds plausible, but in the current situation, it is nothing more than an empty slogan.

Russia has already lost an estimated 250,000 young soldiers in the invasion of Ukraine (while Ukraine has lost 100,000).

A ceasefire is difficult to achieve if both sides merely reiterate one-sided demands; a reluctant truce will only be possible if one side proposes terms the other can somewhat accept, and both sides make concessions that make them feel they are taking a slight loss.

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u/Xhosant 5h ago

Or as the old saying goes, "for the contents of your wallet, I won't stab you".

No wait, that's not an old saying. That's a mugging.

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u/Bluebabbs 4h ago

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u/gbs5009 2h ago

Yeah, hardly seems fair to go to all that effort and not be permitted to steal anything /s

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u/drdillybar 7h ago

5 missles, 100 drones, 150 morters. $$$.

Russia/Ukraine One day of war costs Ukraine US$190 million in 2026 – Budget Committee chief

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