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As US aid to Ukraine dries up, new platform connects American investors with Ukrainian startups
Kyiv Independent ^ | July 1, 2025 | Dominic Culverwell

Posted on 07/05/2025 6:20:12 PM PDT by ransomnote

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The Kyiv Independent is a mouthpiece for Zelensky or his military psyops when it reports about the war and politics. But I suspect this story has truth to it - USAID was a slush fund and they are hoping to replace it with 'donors'. Meanwhile, Zelensky continues to drive the country, and her people, into the ground.

It's an appalling 'opportunity' to invest in a country that is in a hole and digging as fast as it can.

1 posted on 07/05/2025 6:20:12 PM PDT by ransomnote
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“Donors” are welcome to trust Zelensky at their own peril.

I’d prefer the American taxpayers not be a bottomless bank account for the newest European war.


2 posted on 07/05/2025 6:25:09 PM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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Excellent points. But I don’t see Trump allowing Putin to take Ukraine. Time will tell.


3 posted on 07/05/2025 6:30:17 PM PDT by rrrod (6)
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They are fools. Ukraine has a “ D” credit rating, and have defaulted on many of their loans since 1991. Guess they will learn the hard way.


4 posted on 07/05/2025 6:36:16 PM PDT by delta7
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Bingo! Why is this our problem? Everyone loses here, Ukraine, Russia, and most of all the US—in our pocket book. So what if we help them? When does it end? What is the end result? Let Europe take care of their own. American blood and money has been sacrificied to no end. Bibilically, it all adds up. Russia anin't going nowhere.
5 posted on 07/05/2025 6:39:44 PM PDT by Fungi
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Excellent points. But I don’t see Trump allowing Putin to take Ukraine.
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As stated from day one, Vlad is only taking ( and keeping ) the ethnic Russian provinces. President Trump can do nothing about that, as we are witnessing.


6 posted on 07/05/2025 6:41:20 PM PDT by delta7
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“Vlad is only taking ( and keeping ) the ethnic Russian provinces. “

He tried to take Kiev in three days but Zelensky outsmarted him.

Now a after three years of fighting and draining their reserves they have essentially gained no new ground.


7 posted on 07/05/2025 6:54:31 PM PDT by TexasGator (/i.. logo About Issues Projects Products Connect Subscribe Invest June 19, 2025 | Insight '1-1111 -)
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To: ransomnote

perfect, everyone who wants to support Ukraine can now do so and stop telling everyone else what to do.


8 posted on 07/05/2025 7:03:37 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The road is a dangerous place man, you can die out here...or worse. -Johnny Paycheck, 1980, Reno, NV)
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Excellent opportunity to FALL PREY TO GRIFTERS! We all, after all, are possessed of desirable OTHER-PEOPLE’S-MONEY.


9 posted on 07/05/2025 7:05:38 PM PDT by House Atreides (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnVFlcTy0DcI’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX>)
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Surprisingly, no mention of any of the startups putting Hunter Biden or Mitt Romney’s kid on the board to act as the funnel for cash infusions.


10 posted on 07/05/2025 7:14:29 PM PDT by Bernard (Issue an annual budget. And Issue a federal government balance sheet. Let's see what we got.)
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Burisma is a blue chip.


11 posted on 07/05/2025 7:29:58 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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Enron would be a safer investment.


12 posted on 07/05/2025 7:44:05 PM PDT by BobL
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Braunfisch needs Zelensky to make him a Ukrainian Prince and then start sending out mass market emails to Americans.


13 posted on 07/05/2025 7:55:29 PM PDT by Neanderthal (GETTING TIRED OF WINNING!!)
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What kind of startups? Scrap metal processors?


14 posted on 07/05/2025 8:01:08 PM PDT by montag813
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It isn’t up to the US to decide who takes Ukraine. It was a stupid globalist proxy war and a big poop stain on America brought to us by the Biden admin after the last poop stain in Afghanistan.


15 posted on 07/05/2025 8:20:07 PM PDT by dforest
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A fool and his money are soon parted.


16 posted on 07/05/2025 8:24:33 PM PDT by McGruff
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It’s such a preposterous idea - investing in Ukraine - that I wonder if it’s just cover for Deep Staters shifting money to Ukraine. Someone like Lindsay Graham would empty the rest of of the US treasury into Ukraine, but if Trump won’t cooperate, maybe people like Graham can help funnel illicit funds to Ukraine by claiming they are investments, along with other Soros lackeys.


17 posted on 07/05/2025 8:28:31 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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i was thinking investing on RED on a vegas roulette wheel has way better odds than “investing in startups” in ukraine: almost 50% chance of winning on the wheel!


18 posted on 07/05/2025 8:31:46 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: delta7; rrrod; House Atreides; All

“Vlad is only taking ( and keeping ) the ethnic Russian provinces.”

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><

The problem is...

ALL provinces in Ukraine (except Crimea) have a majority of Ukrainians, NOT Russians!

PROOF (see the map):

“Percentage of Ethnic Russians in Ukraine by region in 2001”
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Russians_Ukraine_2001.PNG/960px-Russians_Ukraine_2001.PNG?20070521174856

Putin is stealing other’s lands, while killing, bombing, deporting Ukrainian children. Worse than Al Qaida.


19 posted on 07/05/2025 8:53:57 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE (Silence against evil isn't neutrality, it's complicity. Oppose the Iran-Russia-North Korea Alliance!)
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As long as there aren’t any taxpayer money being used, I don’t care who donates to this war.

The USA has spent way too much money, considering how the war is going.

IMHO, it’s time for European nations to take the lead.


20 posted on 07/05/2025 10:29:33 PM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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