TEHRAN - As the United States makes announcements on a regular basis for new military aid packages for the war in Ukraine, it is the American households who are funding the war through tax money.

Many critics say the U.S. has waged a proxy war against Russia but Ukrainian civilians and soldiers are sacrificing their lives to realize the American goals.

It has been widely estimated that the amount of money Washington has spent on the war has left a hole of around $900 in the pockets of each American household. 

Some estimates indicate that this figure is approximately $1000 so far for every American family. 

President Joe Biden repeatedly stating that the United States will support Ukraine "as long as it takes", the Americans are wise enough to know what this actually means for them. 

Americans growing increasingly frustrated at the expenses when a long list of urgent domestic problems, including health care, fragile and aging infrastructure, gun violence, racism, rising inflation, expenses, and other issues are being neglected. 

This public anger has been picked up on by various political nominees for the 2024 presidential election, drawing fears back in Kyiv that a new administration in the White House could end the flow of military assistance. 

That will continue until the new administration, if Biden loses the election, wage another proxy conflict elsewhere in the world. 

The exact amount of money that the U.S. has sent to Ukraine is far from transparent with the Biden administration using different terminology at different times to define where the funds are coming from. However, polls and reports show Americans are seeking clarity themselves.  

In the first ten months alone since the conflict erupted in February 2022, Congress had already approved more than $113 billion in military assistance and other forms of aid to support the Ukrainian government and "allied nations".

The total sum being sent to Ukraine is believed to be much higher. 

Opponents of the war argue that this money can go a long way to serving a large number of domestic issues plaguing the lives of ordinary Americans. 
Publicly, Washington has announced several ways in which direct military supplies and financial aid are being provided to Ukraine. 

These include:

Presidential Drawdown Authority (sending existing U.S. weapons and ammunition and then paying U.S. arms manufacturers to replace them). 

The Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (this is where the U.S. administration pays private contractors for training and supplies). 

On top of these two, Washington also has a foreign military financing program (the U.S. administration pays to stock up the weapons caches of NATO allies that have sent their own weapons to Ukraine).

Biden seeking more than $21 billion from Congress 

The administration of President Biden is now seeking more than $21 billion from Congress for Ukraine. This includes $13.1 billion for military aid and $7.3 billion for economic and, according to the White House, "humanitarian aid".

The latest amount of money sought by Biden comes before the U.S. has spent what has already been authorized.

Critics inside the U.S. are demanding that the Biden administration make it known to the American public through a clear roadmap what Washington is actually seeking for Ukraine’s future before any more money is allocated.

The policies of the current administration have contributed nearly $5 trillion to the U.S. national debt, with critics saying the time has come to end this repetitive pattern and behavior. 

Analysts say the U.S. public cannot afford to continue going down this path (a path that could lead to a nuclear apocalypse) amid a series of domestic issues. However, calls for a responsible approach have fallen on deaf ears.

Analysts say the U.S. has a tendency to go to war under claims of humanitarian reasons, while the truth is that the U.S. wars are aimed to serve corporate interests, the American military-industrial complex, as well as globalist hegemonic interests. 

The U.S. war machine has to be maintained at all costs, with the U.S. taxpayers always paying the price. 

The destructive Washington’s militaristic goals are primarily intended to serve the interests of a very wealthy Americans. The American mainstream media also run headlines of an urgently so-called humanitarian mission to mislead the public into giving more of their hard-earned money. 

Whether it's the war in Afghanistan, Iraq or Ukraine, President Biden strongly supported the Afghanistan and Iraq wars as a senator and now the Ukraine war as a president. 

The powerful minority elite who reap huge benefits from wars is dependent on conflicts beyond American borders. 

This goes beyond partisan politics. 

There is no daylight between Democrats and Republicans. Even if the majority of Americans oppose U.S. direct or proxy wars. 

A recent survey showed that the majority of Americans oppose more money being spent on Ukraine. 

There is quite little they can do to stop the war. Protests, complaints, and surveys mean very little to the policymakers in Washington DC. 

During the Vietnam War, it took a massive amount of campaigning by the American public for the U.S. to end the war. 

But times have changed and the elite in Washington have learned lessons from the Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq wars. 

They are now pursuing a different agenda with the Ukraine war. One of these measures is the increasing censorship. 

Peace advocates, opponents, and critics of the Ukraine war have been mysteriously taken off the airwaves in the U.S. 

This is while an increasing number of analysts and political commentators with ties to U.S. arms manufacturers have been offered the platform to air their hawkish views in a manner that deceives the American public who have no idea why their tax money is being spent on foreign military adventures.

Critics say repeated remarks by Biden that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a war criminal, or repetitive claims by President Bush that Afghanistan was responsible for the 9/11 attacks or that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction are all the same misleading slogans to serve the same purpose: War.