Posted on 02/04/2025 8:08:10 AM PST by delta7
Zelenskyy said Ukraine received less than half of what was approved by the US and he was unaware of where those funds went. This came after Trump froze all foreign aid except Israel and Egypt.
As the Russia-Ukraine war approaches three years, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has clarified that Kyiv has only received $75 billion out of the $177 billion military aid approved by the United States under the Biden administration.
The revelation came after US President Donald Trump’s administration froze virtually all foreign aid with the exception of Israel and Egypt. However, Zelenskyy had then said that the US had not “stopped" military aid for Ukraine.
Now I chased this down. What happens is we approve to BORROW funds which are then disbursed directly from the IMF and World Banks supposedly to the Ukraine. But who it was actually dispersed to is secret and classified. Why would it be secret and classified? Could it be because most of it was going to someone other than the Ukraine?
You bet... In fact Biden changed the website so that we cannot even see that reality of borrowing and disbursement chain anymore. What used to say “Receiver classified” is now even gone. This needs to be looked into...
https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient
The Clinton Foundation assets should be seized since it was basically there to receive bribes to sell out the USA.
Zelensky would never had said this 6 months ago, even if he knew it was true.
He’s saying it to throw Biden and the corrupt state department and USAID under the bus (which is deserved) AND to suck-up to Trump’s present media narrative.
Biden and congress by default did not want any accountability as to where the money went. They were against any audit process. Think what you will.....
Trump has been telling us the whole entire time. From day 1 (Jan 20, 2017; in a 17-minute speech with US Military behind him).
Trump is draining the Swamp. Trump is restoring the US Republic and Constitutional government.
The manner in which this is accomplished is to take corruption and shine light on it. Make Deep State self-immolate.
So, it's not just what's being said now, its been said all along. However, the pitch is getting a bit higher, and more audible to more people.
A good bit when into private hands—corruption alone is why we should just hand it to Putin.
“I have no doubt that the purpose of that visit was to instruct Zelenskyy how to handle the required tributes to the US Dem party.”
Oh believe me, it is NOT just the Dems... The establishment GOP on the hill are all in on this one too.
Zelensky is a total crook, Biden a crook, Democrat party crooks….what to expect. As I have said over and over, Post War analysis will be damning.
All the lies and omissions about the Ukie war from our government, the worst part? Much of the US population believed in them….but then 75 percent fell for Biden’s Covid vax hoax, dangerous and ineffective MRNA shots, shutdowns, masks, distancing, etc….sheeple comes to mind.
There should be a ban on NGOs due to all the corruption we’re seeing
Everybody up and down the line got to wet their beaks, and the Biden crime family will be set for generations. Meanwhile, banks in the Cayman Islands are flush with cash.
As we suspected.
The interesting things is why he is saying it now.
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The end is near, very near for St Z and Ukraine. He may be putting the word out, they will start spilling the beans,….on our Bio Labs, Ukie losses, Burisma, Biden shell company payments, their organ harvesting trade, CIA involvement, human trafficking trade, payments to democrats, etc….the list is long.
Again, Post War analysis will be stunning.
Some $113.1 billion tax dollars were authorized in 2022 for Ukraine, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Most of it–about $67.1 billion–was defense-related. The other $46 billion included:
<><>$26.9 billion for economic support;
<><>$7.9 billion for international disaster assistance;
<><>$6.6 billion in assistance for refugees;
<><>$1.5 billion for assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia;
<><>plus $3.1 billion for other Ukraine non-defense spending.
<><>US tax dollars paid 618,000 educators, 517,000 health workers, and 56,500 first responders salaries
<><>US tax dollars sustained critical Ukraine healthcare services,
<><>US tax dollars met pension responsibilities for 9.8 million Ukranians,
<><>US tax dollars assisted 1.3 million internally displaced Ukrainians,
<><>US tax dollars provided housing assistance to 4.1 million Ukraine people,
<><>US tax dollars provided social assistance to 240,000 low-income Ukraine families
<><>US tax dollars subsidized 480,000 Ukraine persons with disabilities,
<><>US tax dollars bought supplies for Ukraine farmers,
<><>US tax dollars financed finding markets for Ukraine small business
Laughing out loud, indeed. But perhaps not as you intended it.
" 'Where Have All the Flowers Gone? is a folk song written by American singer-songwriter Pete Seeger in 1955. Inspired lyrically by the traditional Cossack folk song 'Koloda-Duda', Seeger borrowed an Irish melody for the music..." Wiki
As to the lyrics, in part and in English translation from the Russian ( so says the website )--
— Koloda, and the pipesIt's been called Ukraine and various other names with Ukrainian and Russian languages, from long before this current nation began in 1991, and the current constitution dating from 1996. It's been part of many different "powers" including the Soviets, Tasrist Russia, the Cossack Hetmanate, Galicia–Volhynia, and the early Kievan Rus'. And somewhere in there, parts of it were ruled by Poland of that time.
Where have you been?
— Watching over the horses
— What did you see?
— A steed with a saddle
With a golden fringe
— And where is your steed?
— He stands beyond the gate
— And where is the gate?
more....Source: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/koloda-duda-koloda-and-pipes.html
Pete Seeger "stole" nothing. He adapted, as so much of lyric writing does over centuries.
As to the original melody -- not the "Irish Lumberjack" tune -- listen to Theodore Bikel's version:
Kaloda Duda Theodore Bikel "Songs of the Earth"
I foresee an Arkancide in Z-Man’s future.
Is this Zelensky throwing the MIC under the bus?
check politicians off shore accounts
This has been gong on for years, now. Ever since BeijingBiden illegally got Uk to fire the prosecutor going after Burisma by illegally withholding $$.
So, you’ve been shorted for years and just now pipe up?
BS! ditto to anyone saying that since such monies were spent in US it is the fault of the US. BS!
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