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Aiding Ukraine Has Been a Great Investment for the US
Trump ignores that assistance to Kyiv has revitalized the American military, created domestic jobs and decimated Putin’s forces.
Not seeing eye to eye.
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Presidential power, wrote Harvard scholar Richard Neustadt, “is the power to persuade.” Lately, President Donald Trump has tried to persuade Americans that their support for Ukraine has been a colossal waste. That argument distorts reality; it also threatens to distort US policy for years to come.
So it’s worth tallying just what the US has gained by preventing the violent destruction of Ukraine — and remembering that America’s strategic balance sheet isn’t simply a matter of dollars and cents.