Like a frog in a pan, warm it up slowly until the frog dies without even realizing it until it is too late. Temperatures don't need to rise more than a fraction over time and people will never do anything until it is too late.
Just reading that ole bone spurs has paused sending aid to a country fighting to stop an invasion of its sovereign territory but is going ahead with funding a country that murders children.
The loans to Ukraine are not much different from the US Lend Lease program made during WWII to the UK. The UK paid it all back by 2006.
Let's hope Ukraine wins soon.