A report from 60 Minutes that aired Sunday detailed how US taxpayer dollars are not only funding weapons in Ukraine but are also subsidizing small businesses and paying first responders salaries, among other things.
While the bulk of US support for Ukraine has gone toward military aid, the US has also provided tens of billions of dollars in a form of assistance known as direct budgetary aid.
According to the US Agency for International Development (USAID), budgetary aid “keeps basic government services like hospitals, schools, and utilities running, and it sustains support for emergency responders and firefighters.” According to the 60 Minutes report, the US aid pays for the salaries of all 57,000 of Ukraine’s first responders.
Tatiana Abramova, a woman who runs a knitwear business in Ukraine, spoke with 60 Minutes and said she received subsidies funded by the US taxpayer. “We realize that it’s the aid from government, but it’s the aid from the heart of every ordinary American person,” Abramova said.
US officials working for USAID helped Abramova’s business find new customers overseas. Other examples of non-military aid include the US purchasing seeds and fertilizers for Ukrainian farmers. The 60 Minutes report said the US has pumped $25 billion in non-military aid into Ukraine.
It ain’t from my heart, lady. You’re taking my tax dollars away from people here in the states who served in the armed forces and end up in the streets homeless.
You rock OG1.:-)
You’re very kind 😉
And the other homeless as well. Every dime collected in this country should stay in this country. Food and medicine are the only things that should leave in the form of “aid”. And that’s after the hungry and sick are taken care of here.
If your president’s 5 foot 3 and $100 billion in the hole
American tax dollars ought not to pay to keep Kiev on the Dole
This is beyond preposterous…!
And the best part, there isn’t a God damn thing anyone can do about it. Welcome to your nightmare.
Sanctions, subsidies and weapons loans… What a business model! What a way to run an economy!
Even before this war started, Ukraine was known to be moving towards an economic basket case mainly because of a continuously decreasing population. A permanent loss of the Donbass region would make that worse be because it contains Ukraine’s major oil and other mineral deposits. Without the Donbass, Ukraine’s economy will be mainly agricultural. One bad harvest will be catastrophic.
Ukraine may well recover the Donbass by this war but will then have to do what Czechia did after WWII with the Sudetenlanders: kick the “Russian” Donbassers out to Russia which means another loss of population.
The nasty economic consequences of refusing to implement the Minsk agreements show the monstrous economic idiocy of Ukrainian leaders like Zelenskyy.
Integration into the EU? Are you kidding? The EU is politically moving towards right-wing extremism. For the EU Ukraine is primarily a food producer.
Winning a war but becoming an economic and political basket case. That has happened before in history.
Don Julio: do you see any future economic benefits of this war for the people of Ukraine? Please, let us know.
“Ukraine may well recover the Donbass by this war”
That seems … unlikely.
OK. Perhaps I should have written “In the unlikely case that….”
To which extent do you agree with my rough economic analysis?
After the ultimatum that Ukraine could only trade with the EU or Russia, and not both, Ukraine already suffered great economic loss choosing the EU. Corrupt or not, the president overthrown by the US coup had argued that this would be the case.
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hey = i am trying to elevate yall’s plane of existence onto a higher plane ….
not because i am personally elevated, but because IMO yall’s souls deserve to be elevated and perhaps i should try my damndest….. so here is another one =
this guy is IMO literally one of the weirdest dudes on the entire planet =
Waiting to see, in the event of a Government shuts down and they stop paying military personel etc., if the Uke-Aide wage payments will stop as well. Dream on….