The reader will be shocked to know that Ukraine has received 246 billion Euros or USD 266 billion dollars from all donors between January, 2022 and January 2024 (with the US contribution adjusted to 75 billion). "The Joe Biden administration and the U.S. Congress have directed about $75 billion in assistance to Ukraine, which includes humanitarian, financial, and military support, according to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a German research institute. (This figure does not include all war-related U.S. spending, such as aid to allies.)" https://www.cfr.org/article/how-much-aid-has-us-sent-ukraine-here-are-six-charts
Total bilateral aid commitments to Ukraine between January 24, 2022 and January 15, 2024, by donor and type
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1303432/total-bilateral-aid-to-ukraine
That is simply a staggering amount of cash. What was it used for? Where did it go? Who benefited the most from this obscene amount for a war in which Ukraine has already lost to Russia? But nobody is asking these questions in the Western world. The Western media should be asking these questions daily, but instead they are promoting more cash for Ukraine.
But a lot of that money is actually going to the Pentagon and US companies. "Here is the best-kept secret about U.S. military aid to Ukraine: Most of the money is being spent here in the United States. That’s right: Funds that lawmakers approve to arm Ukraine are not going directly to Ukraine but are being used stateside to build new weapons or to replace weapons sent to Kyiv from U.S. stockpiles. Of the $68 billion in military and related assistance Congress has approved since Russia invaded Ukraine, almost 90 percent is going to Americans, one analysis found."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/29/ukraine-military-aid-american-economy-boost/
Then the misappropriate of funds is another issue and concern.
US has spent billions on Ukraine war aid. But is that money landing in corrupt pockets?
Support could erode further among Americans and Ukrainians, according to members of Congress and Sopko, without greater transparency and accountability for the tens of billions spent.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...ight-ukraine-russia-military-aid/11271555002/
Now the US Senate wants to foolishly send another 60 billion dollars to Ukraine.
"On February 13, 2024, the Senate passed the National Security Act, 2024 (H.R. 815, as amended), by a vote of 70- 29. If enacted, Division A of the act would provide approximately $60 billion for Ukraine-related activities out of $95.3 billion in total funding."
What’s inside the Senate’s $95 billion bill to aid Ukraine and Israel and counter China
https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-aid-congress-senate-china-d7b4846de76a1dfe5d2207b7eb6eeead
What is not being addressed and honestly faced is the Ukraine has already lost the war and it is time for a peace treaty, not more tax-payer money being wasted while the taxpayers suffer under "Bidenomics".
Ukraine Can’t Win the War
https://time.com/6695261/ukraine-forever-war-danger
The long-awaited counteroffensive last year failed. Russia has recaptured Avdiivka, its biggest war gain in nine months. President Volodymyr Zelensky has been forced to quietly acknowledge the new military reality. The Biden Administration’s strategy is now to sustain Ukrainian defense until after the U.S. presidential elections, in the hope of wearing down Russian forces in a long war of attrition.
This strategy seems sensible enough, but contains one crucially important implication and one potentially disastrous flaw, which are not yet being seriously addressed in public debates in the West or Ukraine. The implication of Ukraine standing indefinitely on the defensive—even if it does so successfully—is that the territories currently occupied by Russia are lost. Russia will never agree at the negotiating table to surrender land that it has managed to hold on the battlefield.
Total bilateral aid commitments to Ukraine between January 24, 2022 and January 15, 2024, by donor and type
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1303432/total-bilateral-aid-to-ukraine
That is simply a staggering amount of cash. What was it used for? Where did it go? Who benefited the most from this obscene amount for a war in which Ukraine has already lost to Russia? But nobody is asking these questions in the Western world. The Western media should be asking these questions daily, but instead they are promoting more cash for Ukraine.
But a lot of that money is actually going to the Pentagon and US companies. "Here is the best-kept secret about U.S. military aid to Ukraine: Most of the money is being spent here in the United States. That’s right: Funds that lawmakers approve to arm Ukraine are not going directly to Ukraine but are being used stateside to build new weapons or to replace weapons sent to Kyiv from U.S. stockpiles. Of the $68 billion in military and related assistance Congress has approved since Russia invaded Ukraine, almost 90 percent is going to Americans, one analysis found."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/29/ukraine-military-aid-american-economy-boost/
Then the misappropriate of funds is another issue and concern.
US has spent billions on Ukraine war aid. But is that money landing in corrupt pockets?
Support could erode further among Americans and Ukrainians, according to members of Congress and Sopko, without greater transparency and accountability for the tens of billions spent.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...ight-ukraine-russia-military-aid/11271555002/
Now the US Senate wants to foolishly send another 60 billion dollars to Ukraine.
"On February 13, 2024, the Senate passed the National Security Act, 2024 (H.R. 815, as amended), by a vote of 70- 29. If enacted, Division A of the act would provide approximately $60 billion for Ukraine-related activities out of $95.3 billion in total funding."
What’s inside the Senate’s $95 billion bill to aid Ukraine and Israel and counter China
https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-aid-congress-senate-china-d7b4846de76a1dfe5d2207b7eb6eeead
What is not being addressed and honestly faced is the Ukraine has already lost the war and it is time for a peace treaty, not more tax-payer money being wasted while the taxpayers suffer under "Bidenomics".
Ukraine Can’t Win the War
https://time.com/6695261/ukraine-forever-war-danger
The long-awaited counteroffensive last year failed. Russia has recaptured Avdiivka, its biggest war gain in nine months. President Volodymyr Zelensky has been forced to quietly acknowledge the new military reality. The Biden Administration’s strategy is now to sustain Ukrainian defense until after the U.S. presidential elections, in the hope of wearing down Russian forces in a long war of attrition.
This strategy seems sensible enough, but contains one crucially important implication and one potentially disastrous flaw, which are not yet being seriously addressed in public debates in the West or Ukraine. The implication of Ukraine standing indefinitely on the defensive—even if it does so successfully—is that the territories currently occupied by Russia are lost. Russia will never agree at the negotiating table to surrender land that it has managed to hold on the battlefield.
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