Posted on 02/05/2024 4:29:19 AM PST by FarCenter
>>The EU recently approved enough funding to carry Ukraine for the next year.
The recently approved EU funding is not for weapons. It keeps the bureaucracy, pensions, kleptocracy going over 4 more years.
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Key aspects of the Ukraine aid deal, however, remained murky.
It was not clear if EU leaders had also approved a separate military aid fund for Ukraine worth 20 billion euros ($21.7bn), proposed last July. Nor was it clear if they would move forward with the five billion euros ($5.43bn) in military aid proposed by Josep Borrell, the EU’s foreign policy chief.
Thursday’s deal, known as the “Ukraine Facility“, consists of 17 billion euros ($18.5bn) in grants and 33 billion euros ($35.8bn) in loans, designed to help Ukraine rebuild and recover from the war.
The funding is also expected to help Ukraine make reforms on its path to eventual EU membership. EU leaders officially invited Ukraine to become a member in December, but around the same time, Hungary vetoed the aid package, saying Ukraine funding should not be grafted onto the EU multi-annual budget.
The aid’s eventual passage on Thursday was met with cheers from Ukrainian officials. Deputy Prime Minister Yuliya Svyrydenko wrote on Facebook that, with the funding, Ukraine had “come one step closer to economic stability for the next four years”.
Ukraine faces a $43bn budget deficit this year and expects the EU aid will cover just under half of it.
The US and USSR leaned against each other for 45 years.
Then the USSR collapsed. The US under George Bush and Bill Clinton failed to step back and right itself.
It is only a matter of time until the US falls over.
What is certain is that the US national debt is at the height of the WWII level, and rising rapidly beyond that level now. The idiocy is baked into the cake, so to speak.
As you observe correctly, "The US under George Bush and Bill Clinton failed to step back and right itself." From then until now, that so-called "peace dividend" has only managed to tally up to and beyond $30 TRILLION dollars.
What cannot continue will stop.
Debt ClockFederal Budget Deficit Grew to $2 Trillion in FY 2023 Tax Foundation, 12 October 2023
Reports are Russians are using 6000 arty shells per day, the Ukes 2000.
Do the math.
And the Russian war production industries are in full swing. The West not so much, with deliveries promised into late 2024 or 2025 for “ the next Uke offensive”…but with what troops? When the Ukes finally run out of people ( they already have tens of thousands of women now serving)….that is the question and conscription and mobilization of previously protected classes ( students, the young, the wealthy from Kiev and other cities, women) is creating a fault line in the Uke govt, along with acknowledged corruption.
Will getting rid of Zaluzhny strengthen Zelensky’s control, or weaken it? How popular will he really be with war weary Uke citizens…and a military that is increasingly recognizing the reality of their positions.
That wasn't Russia, that was the Soviet Union (which included Ukraine) 80 years ago, and that was with the United States helping the Soviets out MASSIVELY with logistics. Just as one example, the US gave the Soviets via lend-lease 420,000+ trucks, 2000 locomotives, 10,000 railcars and 4.5 million tons of food among many other types of aid. That's not a typo, you read that right, we shipped four hundred and twenty thousand trucks to the Soviet Union. If the Russians had that kind of logistical support today things would be very different for them. And if they hadn't have that logistical support in WWII from lend-lease, they would have lost the war.
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