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Catching on yet?
Ukraine economy is imploding, hard.
Therefore, the move is expected, a given, a necessity.
This has got to be the most expensive war ever fought. We are already going well over 100 billion. It’s been a little over 7 months. What weapons systems is Ukraine operating?
They aren’t even using air power. Where is all of that money going?
The IMF is you and me. Only we do not have any say. Don’t pay, Government Agents kill or imprison you.
Globohomo is expensive.
Gibs-me-dat $BILLIONS!
Ukraine ping
Not some big surprise. Florida sustained an estimated $40b in losses from a hurricane lasting less than a day, and the death toll was 200, at worst. Ukraine has sustained possibly 100,000 dead. If you merely valued each life at the nominal airplane crash compensation number of $175K, that’s $17.5b right there. The hurricane is over, but the Russians continue to kill Ukrainians and destroy Ukrainian infrastructure with everything ranging from rifle fire to ballistic missiles.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Convention
So Kiev needs $2B to continue energy exports to Europe, and another $5B to purchase energy for domestic use??
A loan....like they’re going to pay it back. We’re not stupid.
So, who in the IMF has Zelenskyy been laundering money for, and now he is threatening to ‘spill the beans’?
We know, (mostly) which American Politicians have been laundering their grift and graft through Ukraine, but I haven’t heard of any outside the US who have done so.
Given that less than 30% of what has been given to Zelenskyy has actually reached the peasants / cannon fodder, Zelenskyy must by now be close to being the world’s richest man, even if he has to share it with some of his ministers.
I happened to watch this on Cspan, my mouth was agape as the little stiletto shoes ding dong piano player was asking for billions and billions for everything.
Unreal.
The Ukrainians shouldn't receive a sent unless they surrender.
Other than money laundering, what's the point of sending the money there for energy infrastructure when the Russians are very likely to continue to blow it up?
“lending” program
And the Propaganda Trolls are nowhere to be found on this thread.
It seems like Zelensky is all about the money.
As President of Ukraine, who would you take a stand like: Winston Churchill or Neville Chamberlain: appeasement policy on 30 September 1938, announced “peace for our time” straight after returning from Munich?
President Zelensky is the leader the Ukrainians elected to take a stand for their nation. These people KNOW that Putin cannot be trusted no matter WHAT national or international agreement he signs. As Putin has not honored his ‘agreements’ past & present even with Russian oligarchs, why should Ukraine trust the future given his reputation.
The Ukrainian people also KNOW their stand against Russia is extremely difficult. But, they no longer can submit:
Please refer to the U.S.A. Declaration of Independence:
“WHEN in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness—-That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.”