Now I freaking love the guy.
This is an opening shot to DOGE delving DEEP into uke funding.
(watch out for the cockroaches ;-) )
Posted on 02/19/2025 6:22:49 AM PST by marshmallow
Earlier, in an interview with Fox News, US President Donald Trump admitted that Ukraine could one day become a part of Russia and did not rule out that he would want to return from this country all the money spent on it by the US government
MOSCOW, February 19. /TASS/. US President Donald Trump's demand to Ukraine to return $500 billion spent on it by the US government is not serious, Vladimir Zelensky said at a press conference in Kiev.
"We have to figure out this issue with aid, we [Ukraine and the US] have completely different figures. The war has cost us $320 billion. A total of $120 billion was spent by Ukraine, $200 billion was spent by the US and the EU, this was a package of weapons. In total, the US gave us more than $67 billion in arms and $31.5 billion in direct aid to the budget. But this talk about us returning $500 billion [to the US] is not serious," he said.
Earlier, in an interview with Fox News, US President Donald Trump admitted that Ukraine could one day become a part of Russia and did not rule out that he would want to return from this country all the money spent on it by the US government. Trump specified that he would like to receive the equivalent in the form of Ukrainian rare-earth metals worth about $500 billion.
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The hell he isn’t.
The mongrels get the cash and then send back a percentage to the kongressKreep/RAT potus that made the deal in the first place?
If he does not want to give us our money back we will have to settle for his head in a box.
Z’s move.
Yes it is, it's not charity.
You’ve pretty much got it.
When did the U.S. taxpayers agree to throwing away 5 billion dollars of their family’s paychecks?
And I wanna know how these creeps in Kongress can amass personal wealth of tens of millions (some, hundreds of millions) of dollars on an income of $200K/yr.
The $500 billion is Russian frozen assets controlled by banks and others subject to US sanctions, not American money
Yeah I’m pretty sure he is. Not only did Z man campaign for his opponent, he was instrumental in the second impeachment attempt for trying to cut off funding until Hunter B. was investigated.
You have to be talkin’ about Nanzi Pelousy. I heard the comment made on FNC that she has more money than Warren Buffett. Now I can see why she’s so “proud” of her “public service.”
Trump’s number may be a little high, but he wants the money back. The entire situation (Ukraine’s bucket under the spigot of American money) has been a farce. For all the money we’ve spent on the defense of Ukraine, the streets should be flowing with the blood of Russian soldiers. Clearly it isn’t. We spent billions on pensions and keeping their government employees paid, and we’ve had a few victories and successful defenses of Ukrainian positions.
When the war-fighting is done, we need some, if not all of that money back. Rather than taxing the remaining Ukrainians into oblivion, I think Rare-Earth minerals is a fair trade... with interest, of course.
Now I freaking love the guy.
This is an opening shot to DOGE delving DEEP into uke funding.
(watch out for the cockroaches ;-) )
Money grows on trees. Yep, the trees next to the Federal Reserve building in Washington.
Hey Z....he’s deadly serious
What Trump seems to be proposing is that the US be granted access to 500 billion dollars of undeveloped Ukrainian natural resources.
The US will partner with Ukraine to develop and exploit those natural resources , presumably using US capitol, US technology and US provided plants and machinery which is a huge US investment in Ukraine.
Not only would this investment repay the US, it would also fund the reconstruction of the Ukraine and the rebuilding of it's war destroyed economy. The only way the Ukraine recovers from what has been done to by the Ukrainian corruptocrats and the “international community” is for the US to take the lead to keep the corruptocrats and the carpetbaggers raping the post war Ukraine and stealing the country blind.
The only way this makes any sense is if the US is doing this a mutually benifical, revenue producing partnership with the Ukraine to supply strategic natural resources vital to the US economy. .
It would also frustrate the efforts of the carpetbagging vultures who started the war as a way to buy up post war control of the Ukraine's natural assets and steal the Ukraine's wealth from the Ukrainian people.
Lastly, the biggest impediment to a Ukraine peace deal is the issue of continuing national security concerns for the Ukraine.
The Trump plan is by far the best way for Ukraine to obtain the necessary long term national security it needs.
If the US is heavily invested in partnering with Ukraine to supply the US with strategic natural resources vital to the US economy there is absolutely no way anyone is going to mess with or try to invade the Ukraine.
The alternate plans of posting troops in Ukraine is just another way for the carpetbaggers to undermine Ukrainian national sovereignty and steal the wealth of Ukraine and exploit it's people.
Posting troops in post war Ukraine without the necessary economic development is just setting up the Ukraine for the next round of WWIII
This is such a common sense approach with such enormous upside benefit to both the Ukrainian people and to America it's hard to see how anyone of good faith could oppose it.
Zelensky says Trump “be Lunchin’.”
/sarc, old Maryland slang
Zelensky isn’t very bright. Trump was ready to go all in to protect an intertwined US and Ukraine land and resource in Ukrainian territory. Instead of working within that framework Zelensky has decided to go to the media and attack Trump. I think he may have lost Trump at this point. Certainly he will if he doesn’t course correct.
He doesn’t know Trump very well, does he?
TASS coping U.S. papers propaganda programs.
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