This is creepy and seems wildly unnecessary.
Ukraine is a test bed for the craziest bullshit Silicon Valley has to offer.
Much like with Vietnam being the American testing ground for counterinsurgency and Palestine as demo space for modern policing techniques, we’re using Ukraine to run out all sorts of crazy political and military tech ideas.
AI politicians are Peter Thiel and Mark Andressen’s wet dream. And Ukraine is where we’re going to see if they work.
So that’s what our tax dollars are funding…?
Fun little AI projects instead of bullets.
Fuck all this.
You realize we haven’t given them actual money, right?
And I doubt they are paying OpenAI with tanks.
You realize we haven’t given them actual money, right?
US has provided money, not just equipment, to Ukraine
Between January 2022 and January 2023, the U.S. committed more than $26 billion to Ukraine in financial assistance, according to data compiled by the Ukraine Support Tracker at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a German think tank. That’s about a third of the roughly $77 billion in total aid noted by Kiel, including humanitarian and military assistance, pledged by the U.S. government. The numbers represent money promised, not entirely distributed.
Another tally from the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget places the total amount of aid approved by Congress in 2022 for supporting the Ukrainian government and allies at about $113 billion. That includes about $27 billion in economic support funds, $7.9 billion for international disaster assistance and $6.6 billion to support and relocate refugees.
Graham noted that the war has wrecked Ukraine’s economy and that U.S. assistance has helped keep the government functioning.
The U.S. Agency for International Development has in releases and a report to Congress outlined how budgetary support to the Ukrainian government has been used. Some of the funding has been spent, for example, on social assistance payments and salaries for health care workers, first responders and educators. It also helps cover pensions and support Ukrainians displaced by the war.
