I’m a Ukrainian American. Trump is lying about Ukraine aid.

The USA is doing its part to support Ukraine. But Europe is doing even more. Both are thanks to Joe Biden.

Former president and convicted felon Donald Trump claimed during the presidential debate that Europe isn’t doing its part to support Ukraine. That’s a lie. The Kiel Institute’s Ukraine Support Tracker offers a meticulously compiled comparison of allocations and commitments to Ukraine made as of April 30, 2024.

Here are the facts: European governments, with a 177.8B euro (about $190.6B) investment, are spending 44 percent more than the United States’ total of 98.7B euro (about $105.8B).

Even if you add in all of the $61B (about 57B euro) in Ukraine aid recently promised by Congress and zero of what European nations have promised since May 1, Europe is still out-pulling the United States. 

And, as President Biden stated, our aid to Ukraine comes in the form of weapons sitting in American military stockpiles. 90 percent of what we are spending is to replace those aging weapons with new armaments made by American companies employing American workers. Does Donald Trump hate American jobs?

Indeed, our country is spending more to defend Ukraine from Russia’s full-scale invasion than any other singular country. As a Ukrainian American, I’m proud of that. But the United States has a far larger economy than all of Europe combined, and even with their smaller combined economy, Europe is doing more than the United States to support Ukraine.

The convicted felon pointed to the existence of the Atlantic Ocean, arguing that Europe should shoulder the financial burden of defending Ukraine because they are most threatened. That’s exactly what is happening and exactly why it is happening. Twenty European countries as well as Canada are outspending the United States as a percentage of GDP according to Kiel Institute data.

The United States’ aid to Ukraine amounts to 0.3 percent of our GDP. Poland (0.9 percent GDP) and Finland (1.0 percent) are pitching in three times our percentage. Latvia (1.5 percent), Lithuania (1.6 percent), and Estonia (1.8 percent) are outspending us five and six fold by the same measure. These five nations suffered from Kremlin imperial aggression throughout history. If Ukraine falls, they are next, and their financial commitment to Ukraine reflects the danger they face.

Yet the yapping Liar-in-Chief shames the very allied nations who have stepped up the most — and he invites further Russian aggression based on similar lies.

President Biden has united the free world based on truth. Donald Trump would let it crumble based on lies.