Zelensky has magnificent plans… as long as they’re carried out with OTHER PEOPLES’ MONEY, specifically AMERICAN MONEY.
How big of him… how magnificent."
Naw, but Ukraine has millions of tons of grain to export, which will go to the world's poorest countries, typically in Africa, at discounted prices often supported by charitable organizations.
The problem is Russia's announced blockade of Ukrainian Black Sea ports.
That leaves "the world" writ large with a choice of:
- Use NATO navies to protect Ukrainian grain export ships near Russia in the Black Sea, or
- Support more expensive rail shipments of Ukrainian grain to other countries' ports for subsequent shipment to Africa, or
- Do nothing and let the grain rot in Odessa while the poorest starve in Africa.
Finally, as Paul R. noted in post #73 below, the US has contributed roughly half of the total aid to Ukraine, Europeans the other half, with zero American troops fighting there.
This makes Ukraine a vastly different war by category than any other since World War II.
The only other remotely analogous is our military aid to Israel, which has proved effective now since the 1960s.