Personally I am sick of seeing my tax dollars being sent to Ukraine…..it is time for someone else to step up if Ukraine is all that damn important.
Ukraine just got the okay for billions more for their national budget….we are talking about cash sent to their bank account to be used for their budget…..
The US announced on Monday new massive aid packages for Ukraine, including $4.5 billion in direct budgetary aid and a $1 billion weapons package.
The $4.5 billion in budgetary aid is going to the Ukrainian government and is meant to pay for pensions, healthcare costs, and social welfare. The budgetary funds are being directed by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and will be sent in tranches, with the first sum of $3 billion being sent in August through the World Bank.
According to USAID, the new assistance will bring the total direct budgetary aid sent to the Ukrainian government by the US since Russia invaded to $8.5 billion. The massive amount of direct aid for the Ukrainian government comes despite Western concerns about corruption in Kyiv, which was previously used to argue against Ukraine joining NATO and the EU.
(antiwar.com)
Since the war began the Ukrainian budget has gotten $8.5 billion infusion from the US!
Think about that for a goddamn minute!
$8.5 billion of taxpayer cash sent to Ukraine to help with the budgetary shortfall…..and the US has how much of a budgetary shortfall?
This is cash does not include the multi-billion dollar arms packages that we are steadily shoving up Ukraine’s ass.
Time for the cash to stay where it belongs….here in this country.
When will the American public wake-up to the fact cash needed in this nation is being wasted on other countries and the only people that will benefit are the corporations….and the oligarchs.
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On the BBC News today there was an interview with a Ukrainian finance minister. She said the G20 countries must fund Ukraine at least $4 billion to make up the country’s financial shortfall, and then continue to fund at least $1 billion a month (!) so that they can defeat Russia.
It seems like enough will never be enough.
Best wishes, Pete.
Sorry I just do not see the need. chuq
Nor me.
I’d rather my tax dollars go to fill Russian body bags, than to most of the in-Constitutional expenditures in place domestically.
You had rather see it go to war than the people of this country? I can not agree in any form of that statement. chuq
I’d rather see it go to protecting a sovereign people from invasion and brutal occupation.
Is that all occupations or just Russian? chuq
Generally all……especially Russian.
Okay good to know…..chuq
Here is the part of the story that no one is paying attention to…Putin has orchestrated this whole Ukrainian mess knowing full well that The USA would jump to the fray with billions of dollars in support for Ukraine … and knowing full well that if America keeps on pumping that kind of money into the fray, the USA will eventually be financially hobbled to the point where we will be unable to provide for our own defense … making it much easier for him and his troops to come marching down 5th avenue as invited “Protectors” meant to assist our own law enforcement in keeping the peace … once Trump comes to the Oval Office once more to initiate and institute his “New America Greatness” regime.
Sounds like what the US did in Afghanistan back in the 80s…..make us spend until we are broke. chuq
Our enemies love to work toward making us broke as they, themselves go ahead and upgrade their militaries to phonomental levels.
If that is the plan then why cannot we see it? chuq
I think we can see it alright, I just do not believe that we have the will to address it.
AS the people as a whole…I agree they just do not have the desire. chuq