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Attention U.S. Taxpayers: Ukraine needs $600 billion to re-build country
BBC & Euractiv ^ | Juky 4 | RandFan

Posted on 07/03/2022 10:03:33 PM PDT by RandFan

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To: Maris Crane

(Why do the Cheneys love War so much?)

Investments? Friends who make money off it?


41 posted on 07/03/2022 11:52:09 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: SaveFerris

I was being facetious. The Europeans will push for the US to pay most of it.


42 posted on 07/03/2022 11:59:42 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: AnthonySoprano

Biden is saying the US must pay for it’s own demise.


43 posted on 07/04/2022 12:01:21 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: laplata

He’s the “payment.”

81 million votes, not 81 million voters.


44 posted on 07/04/2022 12:03:17 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: RandFan

Attention U.S. Taxpayers: Ukraine needs $600 billion to re-build country

Ukraine v. Russia:

Not my dog, not my fight. Let the Ukraine pay for their own defense.


45 posted on 07/04/2022 12:21:08 AM PDT by DaiHuy (I support LGBTQ. (Lets Get Biden to Quit.))
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To: RandFan

They’ll take it from the social security lock box


46 posted on 07/04/2022 12:32:55 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: laplata

I need 600 billion.

Of course it would have been more useful 20 years ago but still....


47 posted on 07/04/2022 12:41:56 AM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: RandFan

Does anybody believe for a second that of the 600 billion any of it would be put to serious rebuilding of Ukraine?

It’s one of the top five most corrupt countries in the world.

They have had twenty years to get their act together and they pissed it all away and have a $3500 per capita GDP, and NO nukes.

Weak and foolish people.

And God can damn our intelligence and foreign policy idiots for their moral vanity that led to this mess.

Hey Jennifer Griffin, what have your silly tears done to help the people of Ukraine get back on their feet? ZERO.


48 posted on 07/04/2022 12:42:31 AM PDT by Sapwolf (Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. -Sowell)
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To: Maris Crane

I heard that in her youth, the Cheney’s were big fans of the game of Risk. Apparently, there was a big family split one game over the province of Ukraine and Liz thought she should get it and the other sister argued with her.

You know how these important things can get out-of-hand.


49 posted on 07/04/2022 12:45:54 AM PDT by Sapwolf (Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. -Sowell)
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To: RandFan

That will buy a lot of property in Miami.


50 posted on 07/04/2022 12:47:37 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: RandFan

And I need about $30k to fix some issues with my body that my transplant hospital caused, but I’m not gonna get it.


51 posted on 07/04/2022 1:12:16 AM PDT by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: BenLurkin

Lol, remember when the COVID relief bill included gender education programs in Pakistan?


52 posted on 07/04/2022 1:22:24 AM PDT by ammodotcom
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To: RandFan
I'd be very leery about sending cash to a corrupt hellhole like Ukraine, most of it will disappear like water poured on sand, and end up in the hands of the very same corrupt elements that caused the original problem.
Ukraine is already a beggar state, I fear it will never end.
We can help with tools, materials, food and medicine in the short run but the sooner they can help themselves, the better.

53 posted on 07/04/2022 1:50:17 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: knarf
IMPEACH JOE BIDEN

Impeach Obama.

54 posted on 07/04/2022 2:02:46 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: RandFan
That's a lot of money...

$60 billion for the Big Guy?

55 posted on 07/04/2022 2:10:59 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (We are living in 1984. We have always been living in 1984.)
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To: RandFan
The Bloomberg editorial page has this take...

"Start Planning the Reconstruction of Ukraine Now"

"A recent estimate from the head of the European Investment Bank put the cost of rebuilding at more than $1 trillion."

56 posted on 07/04/2022 2:43:07 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: RandFan

Marshall Plan involved $80 billion in today’s money, for the Belgium, France, Italy, Lux., Netherlands, Norway and U.K.

NOT $600 billion for one country (approx. the size of France)

West Germany was NOT part of the Marshall Plan. Instead, it went free market, and was the biggest success in reconstruction.


57 posted on 07/04/2022 3:04:27 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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NO NO NO…


58 posted on 07/04/2022 3:19:03 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: zeestephen

That is written as if Russia is eventually going to lose, sooner rather than later.


60 posted on 07/04/2022 4:05:30 AM PDT by Susquehanna Patriot
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