Your second point is solid. Ukraine after the war should provide grain excess to the third world and infinitum instead of us doing that. That would save us a lot of $. But beyond grain and sunflower oil, the Russians have occupied the East where v the mineral resources are. Without the coal and other mines, Ukraine is agrarian. They’ll be able to restore hydroelectric power and could do new nuclear plants and provide energy to Poland and others to create revenue to reimburse... but what’s there left to repay with?
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On your first point, don’t fall for that crap. There’s only one way to spell his name in Ukrainian, Володимир Зеленський. By the passport system, that only transliterates to Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Anything else is Russian spelling, and I know you’re not a Zeeper, but surely you’re not a Putinophile.
Just one possible complication: Blackrock’s Larry Fink is greedily buying up huge swaths of prime Ukrainian farmland. Fink isn’t exactly the charitable type . . . unless there’s something in it for him.
The Ukraine is a Russian speaking region. Even Vladimir Z grew up speaking Russian. When the Galician nazis took over everyone was scrambling to learn Ukrainian.
The dirty secret there, “Ukrainian” is basically like Gaelic or American Indian languages. They like to LARP in it for cultural reasons.
So he changed his spelling.
Are you a fan of the Galicians?