In a recent article for the Connecticut Post, Senator Richard Blumenthal assured Americans that "we're getting our money's worth on our Ukraine investment."

"For less than 3 percent of our nation's military budget, we've enabled Ukraine to degrade Russia's military strength by half," writes Blumenthal. "We've united NATO and caused the Chinese to rethink their invasion plans for Taiwan. We've helped restore faith and confidence in American leadership — moral and military. All without a single American service woman or man injured or lost, and without any diversion or misappropriation of American aid."

As Antiwar's Dave DeCamp recently observed, this type of "investment" talk about Ukraine has been getting more common. Last weekend Senator Mitt Romney called the war "the best national defense spending I think we've ever done."

"We're losing no lives in Ukraine, and the Ukrainians are fighting heroically against Russia," Romney said. "We're diminishing and devastating the Russian military for a very small amount of money … a weakened Russia is a good thing."

Last month Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell argued that Americans should support the US government's proxy warfare in Ukraine because "we haven't lost a single American in this war," adding that the spending is helping to employ Americans in the military-industrial complex.