Posted on 05/09/2023 6:19:16 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
One per cent of Western Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a worthy sacrifice to defeat Russia and is dwarfed by what America spent to beat Nazi Germany, says a Ukraine spokesman.
Ukraine very much appreciates the near-$37 billion the United States is already giving in military aid but more — much more, in fact — is needed, a Ukrainian diplomat now working as a full-time procurer of military equipment has said.
Andrij Melnyk, who is becoming well known beyond the borders of Ukraine for his persistent campaigning to push the envelope on military donations to Ukraine and being one of the loudest voices demanding larger numbers of tanks, Western jets, and even warships, made the comments on a German television political show this week, where he said Western nations had to cross their own “red lines” to send more equipment. The former ambassador to Germany, now Ukrainian government minister, said “this will not be an easy undertaking, but a Herculean task”.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
News stories you will not read anything or little about:
-—Forced recruiting in Ukraine and men trying to hide, run away, not leaving the home and sending the wife out to go shopping for food in fear they will bet grabbed.
-—A literal mercenary army, de facto funded by the West.
-—US mercenaries caught by the Russians and awaiting trial, potentially facing the death penalty.
-—The number of US citizens KIA in Ukraine, over 210 as of January 2022.
-—Demonstrations/protests by the wives and mothers of the fallen.
-—New mass graveyards popping up by the week and being filled.
-—US and other Western hardware that is popping up on the black market.
-—Ukrainian casualties and material losses.
-—Recruitment by Ukraine for mercenaries out of the consulates and embassies in Western nations: https://fightforua.org/
-—How US tax money was used to pay for a massive “propaganda” (government sponsored Information Operations to change perception in order to influence behaviors) effort based in Ukraine.
-—The pervasive Nazi ideology among many in the Ukrainian government and armed forces.
-—The many years of human rights violations and flagrant discrimination by Ukrainian nationalists against ethnic Russians.
-—The banning of political opposition parties by Ukraine (isn’t this war about “democracy?”)
-—Ukrainian recruiters going to funerals of the fallen, figuring family and friends will attend, and looking for military aged males at the funeral to literally physically grab and haul off.
-—Even though there is plenty of footage and pictures, you read and see practically nothing about Ukrainians using hospitals, schools, residential areas for cover and concealment. All you read about is a Russian bomb taking out an apartment building, but the Ukrainian troops that were shooting from it, which can be clearly seen, that’s not a story. The Ukrainian tanks or artillery setting up next to the apartment building, that’s not a story...
-—Who owns (literally paid for and installed) many of the key figures in the Ukrainian government, to include Mr Z himself. (Isn’t this war about national “sovereignty?”)
None of these stories get much coverage.
The stories that get massive coverage!
-—Ukrainian forces holding snake Island until the last man. Until the last man apparently includes surrender / capture by the Russians.
-—The Ghost of Kiev - a make belief ace.
-—The impending offensive which is reported on every month.
-—Inflated numbers of Russian killed.
-—A girl with yellow and blue ribbons in her hair, sucking on a lollypop and holding a shotgun.
***Do not be surprised when you wake up one morning to find out everything was entirely different from the line of BS we were fed.***
Example: https://www.newsweek.com/2023/05/05/read-leaked-secret-intelligence-documents-ukraine-vladimir-putin-1794656.html#slideshow/2222794 (this does not line up with what we’re told in the MSM, what our politicians allow to float in public without correcting it, or what some who support Ukraine wish were true)
This is a war where the PR machine was put in place in Ukraine before it started, dissent and opposition is censored in the West. The Euros, US, business and politicians all agree so no one is pulling in a different direction.
how about hell no!
the nerve of this corrupt scumbag beggar.
will the big guy get 10% of that too?
We could make a deal with them.
We support their war effort, and they hand over ALL of their corrupt government and business people for life in max security prison.
Allies are giving them food and water and weapons to fight. Why do they need all this money and getting sick of them begging for it.
Ukraine needs to just go away... puppets of the Deep State ...
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