During the second day of a conference in Switzerland on Ukraine’s future reconstruction efforts, a US envoy urged that allies must meet the “immediate and urgent” needs of Ukraine.
A day earlier, Ukrainian officials put the price tag for the country’s recovery from the war once it ends at $750 billion and said they want some of the funds to come from Russia’s frozen foreign currency reserves.
But Scott Miller, the US ambassador to Switzerland, said there also needs to be a focus on what Ukraine needs now. “While we recognize the importance of preparing for Ukraine’s future, all of us must also deliver on our commitments to provide Ukraine its immediate and urgent needs,” said Scott Miller, the US ambassador to Switzerland.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, the US has committed about $54 billion to spend on supporting Kyiv in its war. The majority of the funds are going towards military spending, but the US has also allocated a sizeable chunk to economic assistance for Ukraine.
Included in the $40 billion aid package President Biden signed into law in May is $7.5 billion for economic aid that will go directly to the Ukrainian government. Last week, the Treasury Department announced it was sending $1.3 billion in economic aid to Ukraine, and it plans to deliver the entire $7.5 billion by the end of September.
As Russia continues to make gains in the east, and Ukraine maintains that its goal is to drive Russian forces out of the territory captured in February, there is no end in sight for the war. The $40 billion aid package is meant to last for the remainder of the 2022 fiscal year, which ends on September 30 for the US federal government. This means that the US is likely already preparing another massive aid package for Ukraine.
Our country is being run by the stupidest people we went to high school with.
There is not a thinker or a statesman in the whole lot. I am both scared and sad.
Their one and really only goal is shoveling money to favored corporations. They are very good at that.
Giving money directly to the Ukrainian government is NOT a prudent approach. Ukraine is the most corrupt country in Europe; little if any of that money will benefit anyone but Ukrainian bureaucrats, oligarchs, and criminals.
Ukraine is NOT the most corrupt country in Europe. In the corruption perception index, Ukraine is 122 while Russia is index 136 (more corrupt than Ukraine). Stop repeating what you hear from biased sources.
https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2021?gclid=Cj0KCQjw5ZSWBhCVARIsALERCvxpcqGF3cVam01yQyHVaLxqxjsLS0x7y-TcW766Q1cpbJ0rDx9hBfkaAhicEALw_wcB
Biased sources? Like the ones that create corruption perception indexes? You are funny …
You just don’t like it because it doesn’t fit your narrative that Ukraine is super corrupted and Russia is not.
But I get it, this is the blog of Putin Lovers.
That is factual, not narrative. Ukraine is the poorest nation and most corrupt in Europe. The Ukraine is wiped out, no matter who wins. The Ukrainian people are the real losers.
Ukraine started out relatively prosperous. Now it’s the poorest place in Europe, even poorer than Albanian ! Why ? NATO overthrew the elected gov‘t in a bloody putsch. Since 2014, 2/3s of working age Ukrainian fled the barbarous Kiev regime.
Voting with their feet
USA, the Obama/ Biden with NEOCONS going back to the Bush era funded and coordinated the 2014 putsch, replacing the elected Yanukovych with a neo-Nazi . Zelensky eliminated the opposition, arrested and killed party leaders, the war was never for freedom and democracy anyway. Biden’s war is about a Russian regime change, replace Putin with some Navalny type and weaken, break Russia, BIDEN said it loud and clear and so did Austin .
At least now the Ukrainians understand what they are dying for and sacrificing their country for. The NATO partners know it too, they are proxies the same as Ukraine. Biden said it, it is what he wants, it is all about the destruction of Russia, nothing else. The NATO leaders are traitors of their country, they should be held accountable, they are the real war criminals.
Ukraine IS super corrupt, now more so than ever since war naturally breeds corruption.
Russia is corrupt also, I’m sure, though I would not take Soros/Gov funded NGO biased word on the relative level of it. But Russia’s corruption is not relevant, as we’re not contributing to it.
And you remain funny in your Putin flinging … keep it up.
Exactly. Russian corruption is not the problem as we are not being coerced into supporting it by our own corrupt political class.
So, you think giving billions to 122 is a good thing? There is no proposal to give billions to 136.
Did I say that? No.
I was just providing supporting data that Russia is more corrupt than Ukraine but your team here likes to repeat factoids instead of facts.
Do I have an issue with my taxes going to support a country being abused by a superpower seeking further enrichment. Absolutely no, plus I have zero control over that. And in case you didn’t know, The US has a moral and obligation to support Ukraine.
My question:
So, you think giving billions to 122 is a good thing?
You:
“Did I say that? No.”
“Do I have an issue with my taxes going to support a country being abused by a superpower seeking further enrichment. Absolutely no”
So, you didn’t say it until you said it. Got it.
You are such a cherry picker.
Completely ignored what I said, but then picked a line and dissected it.
Great, you are the smartest one.
I picked what was relevant.
If you want to spend your own money to support Ukraine? Go ahead. But when you make a claim on me or mine claiming “moral obligation” ? Nope. No obligation to support either side on my part.
“The US has a moral and obligation to support Ukraine.”
Not.
Are you familiar with the Budapest Memorandum?
I’m pretty sure you are not, like the rest of your Putin Lovers team here. But go ahead, read it, then come back to me like you knew everything about it.
I could give a rat’s ass about the Budapest Memorandum.
Exactly, because it doesn’t fit your narrative.
And what narrative is that? You claim anyone who doesn’t back Ukraine is a “Putin Lover” regardless of what they say or whether they even praise Putin. So please, you are hardly one to judge anyone’s narrative.
UNSC 2202
As I read it the US, GB and Russia agreed to non intervention and non coercion in Ukraine. That went out the window when the US backed a coup in Ukraine. Regime change by a outside power wasn’t part of the deal.
Whatever you said.
The USA/UK and NATO are the real abuser of the Ukraine. It started with Bush W. and continued with Obama and now with Biden. That is fact, proven history. BoJo and Biden block any diplomatic negotiation, both are highly troubled characters.
Bottom line is Ukraine led all nations with oligarch appearances in the Pandora Papers release. And the corruption goes all the way up the government as well. Further it was an economic mess before the war as well, crumbling infrastructure and 2nd highest poverty in Europe. https://www.occrp.org/en/the-pandora-papers/pandora-papers-reveal-offshore-holdings-of-ukrainian-president-and-his-inner-circle
So make that “the most corrupt country in Europe that we have been duped into giving huge amounts of money to”. Does that make you feel better? For more detail read the analysis of Ukrainian corruption here https://www.cato.org/commentary/whitewashing-ukraines-corruption. While being “marginally better than notoriously corrupt Russia” might make you into a fanboy, it doesn;t do anything to persuade me that the gand of crooks and oligarchs running Ukraine is worth a signle penny of US money.
Fuck Joe Biden and his POS puppet master obama!
is he a hand puppet or a marionette ?
I’d vote hand puppet … he needs the support provided.
It is all about more money to feed the MIC vulture. No accountability just like the 20 Year Afghanistan fiasco, now they double down doing the same again. The incompetence of the Biden people and all the NATO governments is absolutely bizarre, MADNESS. Worse than that when one adds the lack of any critic and resistance to such MADNESS in the MSM.
See the governments of the USA/UK/GERMANY/ FRANCE, just take a look at the really bankrupt secretary of state each of them have. The BoJo scandals, the cabinet resignations, and BoJo on the way out. Insanity in charge of all the Western administrations, then see the competence on the other side. Putin and Lavrov we have Biden/Blinken. We are the losers, we have incompetent government, all three branches of government, we need regime change, but where is a possible competent statesman?
But as you say, it’s a racket … it’s not madness or incompetence. It’s just corruption on a vast vast scale.
As the asks taken together, war and post war, approaches 10% of the US GDP, they are far out ahead of anything ever dared by Israel.
It is never going to happen, and all the happy talk about limitless support is just a pack of lies.
They are being sent down the primrose path to destruction. Like complete fools, they go off down that path with a will.