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This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 54%. (I'm a bot)


WASHINGTON - The Biden administration is providing $125 million for electrical parts and other supplies to help repair crews in Ukraine keep up with Russian strikes pounding the country's electrical system, the U.S. international development aid chief said Wednesday.
Russian forces since October have intensified strikes on Ukraine's electrical grid and other critical infrastructure, repeatedly plunging Ukrainians into darkness and winter cold.
Past USAID energy assistance since Russia invaded Ukraine in February included delivery of 1,415 generators to keep the heat and lights on at schools, hospitals and other sites across Ukraine.


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ERCOT contractors need not apply >

MAGA is going to be mad about this. >

"What about Texas!?!?!" >

Ukraine was invaded by a hostile power; Texas hurt itself in its confusion. >

Anything to own the libs >

Watch out Ukraine, the US has been trying to “repair” the power grid in Puerto Rico since 2017, and the blackouts keeps getting worse, while prices keep going up. >

you mean to tell me all those paper towels didn’t fix it? >

Why don’t we spend that money on our power grid? >

This foreign aid doesn't preclude any spending on domestic infrastructure.
Why would you look at foreign aid totaling a fraction of a fraction of a single percent of our federal budget and think THATS stopping domestic infrastructure spending? I see no domestic spending cancelled for this, nor do I see any potential spending put off because of this aid, do you have any evidence of that?
You're trying to conflate two entirely separate things that have essentially no interaction or impact on each other and uh... it shows. >

Foreign aid isnt the only thing I’d cut but proxy wars are probably the first thing I would. >

Good thing US and NATO leadership recognize the importance of not letting mad dictators conquer anything they want in Europe.
Almost like that's the whole reason NATO exists in the first place. >

Ukraine isn’t in nato >

And? >

So why not make the entire power grid property of the US and therefore be U.N. protected against further attacks from Russia anymore? Would this even be possible? Seems like it could solve at least one major problem anyways.