

“How is ice-skating going to teach [kids] how to navigate recovery, how to address these issues within their home, how to understand the disease of addiction?”
Maybe by giving them something to do other than drugs? An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. They get free admission for completing the DARE program which (in theory) educates them on exactly that. In my experience it was mostly fear mongering but that’s a separate issue that needs addressing.
It’s not even a significant portion of the funds they’re getting, can these people see past their own noses?
Isn’t this totally ignoring the geopolitical position of Ukraine though? They’re a bulwark against (physical) Russian aggression toward the EU. Abandoning that puts a strain on US relations with the rest of the world, by design. What happens after this? Russia isn’t going to suddenly stop trying to colonize areas next to them.
Instead of being a great “business deal” for the US, it’s pushing the rest of the world away, forcing the US to use bully tactics and physical threats rather than actual diplomacy because Trump can only see it as zero-sum, or more likely is intentionally sabotaging our relationships.
I suppose actually understanding nuance and the consequences of your actions are not something he is capable of, though.