So did the US, The US invaded Ukraine first. That is why they are in this mess. They had puppet regimes of other countries running them who had the interests of other countries first.
Call me when they really become independent and kick out everyone controlling them but Ukrainians.
Then instead of being a sham country, they will be legit.
This is what happens when you sell your own country out to the highest bidder to line you own pockets and that of your cronies. Maybe people will see how they have been sold out in America someday though it might be too late for us too.
Sometime, somewhere, people need to put their foot down and admit the truth even if it hurts.
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I’m with you and now Ukraine’s leaders are wanting billions and billions more to “rebuild” Ukraine before there has even been an end to this “war” and peace has been established. I’m sorry but we don’t need to be sending billions to Ukraine just to end up back in the pockets of folks like the Bidens.
“Sometime, somewhere, people need to put their foot down and admit the truth even if it hurts.”
Simple truth. Ukraine is an independent nation that needed support to remove remnants of Russian corruption within their government. This is similar to the U.S. need to remove liberal democrat corruption within our government.
The U.S. Since the early 1990s, and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the U.S. has given billions of dollars in aid to Ukraine.
Over the past two decades, the amount of aid given by the U.S. to the Eastern European nation has steadily increased, according to data compiled by the U.S. Foreign Aid Office.
The Bush administration gave the least amount of aid to Ukraine, compared with the Trump administration and the Obama administration. During President George W. Bush’s eight years in office, from 2001 through 2008, the U.S. government provided about $1.1 billion to Ukraine.
Congress almost doubled the amount of aid provided to Ukraine during President Barack Obama’s eight years in the White House, supplying $2.1 billion.
In 2015, the U.S. gave about $314 million to Ukraine; in 2016, that skyrocketed to $523 million. When Ukraine under went a violent revolution in February 2014 and ultimately overthrowing the Ukrainian pro-Kremlin leader.
However, the Russian military seized control of Crimea, by a dubious referendum, less than one month later, .
U. S. lawmakers approved aid in 2017 — the first year of Trump’s term, giving Ukraine $446 million. In 2018, that slipped to $350 million.