The $175bn figure is the usual Pentagon accounting fraud that calculates the aid according to the replacement cost of the donated kit with new and updated kit. Much of the donated kit was due for demolition if not given to Ukraine. So your version of Pentagon accounting is as credible as Enron's 25 years ago.
Your last sentence is true since the USA's $28tn GDP is about 1000x the DPRK's and 65x Iran's. In 1941 Japan's GDP was about 1/4 the USA's. The lesson: fighting a conventional war against the USA or its allies is suicidal. Corollary: Russia always loses big wars without an alliance with a more advanced western ally, with Britain against Napoleon, with the British, Ottomans and French in Crimea in 1854-56, with the Anglo-Americans against the Germans in WWII, in the cold war of 1947-1991. Stalin biographer Stephen Kotkin explains why the grievance-generating gap between Russian ambition and capacity repeatedly leads
to deinstitutionalizing personalized rule in an attempt to catch up to a more advanced maritime empire West.
Ancient civilizational legacy continental empires (China, Iran, Turkiye,Arabs, Russia) hate the upstart maritimes (Dutch, British, Americans).
I delayed my reply due to the astronomically high rate of DPRK casualties. Half of the original 12k troops are now dead or wounded. So, wait long enough and you'll be right--no North Koreans in Kursk. Watch how Ukrainians describe how they fight with suicidal abandon, since they know the regime will kill their families if they're captured.
