“No money for American soldiers, but they have money for this!”
Ukraine must convert those dollars to rubles first, because US sanctions prohibit dollar payments to Russia.
Not only giving Russia Billion dollars directly, but propping the Ruble to do it. This is like watching a Keystone Kommunists Kartoon.
Russia’s gas is priced in US dollars already. No need to convert to Rubles. And this is the next thing to expect when the McCain/Obama/EU sanctions hit Russia.
Russia might decide they need to be paid in a gold backed trade currency. Then the end of the dollar begins.
Like Putin said, “a monkey with a hand grenade”.
As foretold by ZeroHedge (Tyler Durden) a couple of weeks ago. And if anyone thinks DC is the only fool in town, the EU foreign ministers are sitting at a meeting just now, talking about possible aid to hand over to Kiev. Money that will either directly or indirectly end up in Moscow. As someone suggested above, why not pay Putin directly and cut out the middle man?