Ukraine: The Cost in Dollars of Supporting Ukraine vs Letting Russia Win

 Elaine McCusker, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, provides a cost comparison: 

~112 billion:  Cost to the US so far, to support Ukraine with weapons and other equipment (most of this money goes to US arms manufacturers

vs 

~808 billion: Projected additional US defense spending that will be needed over the next 5 years, if Russia wins the Ukraine war, including:

    - $88 billion for 270,000 more US service members

    - $31 billion to harden US facilities

    - $109 billion to increase US air combat capabilities

    - $28 billion for drone development

    - $173 billion in air defenses

    - $63 billion to enhance munitions production capability

    - $50 in shipbuilding

    - $185 in additional training and exercises

    - $33 billion in spare parts stockpiling

    - $10 expanding special operations forces

    - $36 billion expanding space and cyber systems

The full article is available in Foreign Affairs magazine here: The Price of Russian Victory: Why Letting Putin Win Would Cost More than Supporting Ukraine