The US will run out of money to pay for Ukrainian government salaries and services within the next month if Congress does not authorize more Ukraine aid, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing unnamed US and Ukrainian officials.
The US and Ukraine’s other Western backers have been paying the salaries of about 150,000 civil servants in Ukraine. This has been done through a form of US support known as direct budgetary aid that is provided through the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the World Bank.
According to the Journal, the World Bank has sent $23.4 billion to Ukraine through the program, with $20.2 billion funded by the US and $2 billion from the UK. USAID is expected to provide another $1.15 billion this month, but future disbursements are unclear.
A recent report from 60 Minutes showed how the US economic aid for Ukraine is not just funding the government. The US aid also subsidizes small businesses and helps purchase seeds and fertilizers for Ukrainian farmers. The owner of a knitwear business in Ukraine spoke with 60 Minutes and acknowledged funding for her company was being provided by US taxpayers.
The Journal report said that if Congress does not authorize the aid soon, Ukraine could use funds put aside for later spending to get through November and December, but prospects for 2024 are unclear. Other countries and the EU could also potentially increase spending on economic aid for Ukraine.
Why don’t you just haul your butt over there and beat up on those Russians yourself, uncle Joe?
I know it is a bridge too far, but it would be nice if Joe would somehow become a diplomat and allow peace between Kiev and Russia. The MIC has made their booty. Shareholders are happy.
That’s not the prize
Carl Gershman, the neocon president of the U.S.-taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy, explained the plan in a Post op-ed on Sept. 26, 2013. Gershman called Ukraine “the biggest prize” and an important interim step toward toppling Putin, who “may find himself on the losing end not just in the near abroad but within Russia itself.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2015/07/13/the-mess-that-nuland-made/
That was one year before the Obama/Biden/ Nuland regime change.
Taxpayer funded executioners, in such criminal company Joe Biden’s corruption is no surprise, in fact a NOT corrupt politician would be a surprise.
Try showing that to people who buy into “unprovoked” war by an insane Hitler, and they downvote rapidly without a retort, like highly emotionally charged monkeys tossing poop.
The monkey part at the end of your post hits the nail on the head.
Old Guy…we’re speaking of someone who beat the Vietnam draft something like five times. Maybe it’s time he finally did his “duty”. 😉
Four times? Professional draft-dodger.
With a few exceptions, most of the political class never fights the wars that they start.
It only makes sense for taxpayer money to pay government salaries…Oh wait, we’re paying UKRAINIAN government salaries??? ????????
How will the hawks spin this I wonder. We pay them to protect “Democracy” and “Freedom”?? Even though they suspended elections, outlawed all oppositions parties, and even harass priests? So they can hold more Nazi rallies????
Plus this:
Leaked Strategy Shows US Views Corruption in Ukraine as Major Threat
https://news.antiwar.com/2023/10/02/leaked-strategy-shows-us-views-corruption-in-ukraine-as-major-threat/
The corruption was the very open window to allow the US to take over. The horse left the barn, and this is now an excuse for failure.
Had it been a legitimate concern, everyone would have voted for oversight.
Qatar has offered to host talks between Ukraine and Russia. I say good luck with that. We, with the assistance of the U.K. will kill the efforts.
At the moment, Russians also have no wish to talk. Three top officials in Moscow, separately from each other, expressed the same opinion: they see no one on the other side to talk with. And definitely no one in Moscow political elite wants a freeze.
Zelensky would have to request permission to talk, we all know what the answer from the demented Autocrat would be. How dare Zelensky even asks if he would.
Ukraine is too big for US budget to support it. When Ukraine is reduced to the size of Moldova, then US government will have less of headache.
It’s a good thing Congress has taken care of Armerica’s problems first and that they have enough left over in the Treasury to fund foreign governments AND their war… Oh, wait. No they haven’t.
“The US Is Running Out of Money to Pay Ukrainian Government Salaries – Officials tell The Wall Street Journal the funding system will run out in the next month if Congress doesn’t authorize more aid”
What value do American taxpayers get out of pay a foreign governments salaries, military salaries, and pensions? NOTHING!
America is just covering Joey Biden’s criminal activity in Ukraine along with those of his druggy son Hunter!
The original crime was creating chaos, goading on, training and arming neo nazis into war and overturning a government. If you can make corrupt money along the way, it’s just icing on the cake.
Impeach the senile old bastard!
He should hang with his gang.
Impeaching is only a political game, they only play, they don’t mean it.
Really, he makes me want to pu**.
Lysi, I’ve a sandbag in my barn that might come in useful…if the old fool did another faceplant over one, maybe it’d put him out of his misery 😉
I agree but it’s a waste of time. Never get the votes in the senate. Plus, he’d probably use it as a badge of honor like Trump.
Neither side wants testimony that would reveal the mechanics behind the coup. Both sides were involved and are invested. This is all too intricately intertwined.
The mechanics behind the Coup are well known by now, as is Biden’s extortion of the UA when he was VP; admitting it to the press.. There are no penalties for anything while serving the gangster regime in D.C.
They are blackmailing and manipulating the public.
The Amerikkkan guvvmint will stop paying out Social Security to its own citizens before it ceases to pay Ukrainazia’s salaries.
NA—-this is only partial sarcasm 😉
They will never forget to pay salaries to themselves and give budget money to their sponsors and their friends.
They already fund the wars with SS contributions, that is what they have used the SSTF for and cut benefits. SSTF by law is invested in TB only. The bonds are a debt the government owes to the working Middle Class people, millionaires don’t pay payroll deductions.
SSTF is more than $$$$ 3 Trillion by now.
Biden did not consult with NATO members, the USA dictated with coercion, and sanctions AND CORRUPTION the members to join in the war against THEIR OWN INTERESTS and RUSSIA. The Biden administration had the opportunity to avoid the war and if not that, they could have ended and settled the conflict in spring in 2022 if they had only wanted it.
This is Biden’s war, he wanted it and he wants even more, he aims for conventional war in Europe against Russia.
Washington is a MAD house. We are being governed by idiots and corrupt MSM journalists. How can that be possible, not a sane person in sight?
Biden and the clown Zelensky and Nuland, Blinken and Sullivan and the Kagan clan and people like Fiona Hill and others just like her should join them.
There could be peace if the criminals in the Biden administration would only want it. Morally they are totally bankrupt, brutal criminals, real KILLERS and all with GOP support.
“How can that be possible, not a sane person in sight?”
They act like a well organized religious sect or like a mafia. They can’t tolerate people who don’t agree with them and never allow strangers in their closed clan.
That religious cult like fanaticism is real insanity I believe. There is no room for common sense in their mind. They really are real pathological insanity cases. That is the only real explanation I can see.
No member of the clan dares to disagree with the rest of them because they’ll kick him out or worse and then he loses everything.
fifty-first state?
What a mess the neocons made in such a short time, and still they have learned nothing. Even more than a year of slaughtering young Ukrainians, they still don’t have enough of it. as long as it is not their necks or children they don’t care, like the scum senators said, the killings are cost effective, and Albright said about 500 000 Iraqi starved to death children it was worth it. They make Hitler look pale compared to them.
DC has been a sewer for a very long time.
US govt threatens to shut down if they don’t get their way.
meanwhile US tax-payers are paying for Ukraine dogcatchers and garbagemen.
We paid Ukraine’s debt as well.
Serious interruption of the grift could cause the Ukraine government to collapse, Afghan-style.
Mainlining US money is its only method of functioning, and spending or stealing that money is its only purpose.
With Speaker McCarthy gone, the deal he made supposedly made with Biden to bring up a stand alone vote on the bill for aid to the Kiev regime is gone as well, presumably.
The problem is that, under all of the various laws that Congress has passed over the years, plus creative accounting of the kind that finds a six billion dollar “error” in the Kiev regime’s favor, and all of the loose money floating around the “Defense” Department generally, Biden can still authorize quite a bit of money for this purpose.
True. And there’s also the question of how much of the money already sent has been already spent.
Per a quote I posted here a few days ago, more than 60% of the US aid is required to be spent on US weapons. There may be significant as yet unspent account balances that will keep the orders coming (and the deliveries going) for some time, during which US “defense” contractors will be leaning hard on their pet congresscritters to get more money into the pipeline.
But at the end they expect the bankrupt Europeans to pay the bill and clean up the pieces so they can start a war on the other side of the continent against China.
Can it get crazier than that?
In a real democracy would that be possible? As it is we have a demented autocrat governing the nation.
Again, Congress has passed the laws that give the President almost unlimited authority to fight wars. It is tempting to talk about autocrats and an imperial presidency and so on, but the Congress has been complicit in and an integral part of the war mongering MIC for at least three quarters of a century. We also seem to have one “demented autocrat” after another, when it comes to warmongering, at least, as presidents. And most voters seem pretty content to vote for them, so….?
You’re almost certainly right. It’s pretty clear, though, that the US and its Eurominions can’t provide enough money, weapons and ammunition for Ukraine to do more than continue to get its troops slaughtered and its nation wrecked.
With support like this . . .
There were big demonstrations in Germany and Poland this weekend I saw nothing in MSM. 100s of thousands demonstrated in Europe against funding the war and for an end of it.
Yes, there is some change of the mood in East and Central Europe. Even the politicians over there are starting to think about their national interests.
But MSM does not report.
Those East European political parties who don’t support NATO’s efforts in Ukraine are labelled as far-right. Those parties are doing well in Hungary, Slovakia, Serbia, Greece and even in Bulgaria and Germany. So, those who don’t support neo-Nazism now are “far-right” and those who support neo-Nazism are “democrats”.
And establishment Republicans. No peace/antiwar in the uniparty.
Poland has an election coming up Oct. 15 and Germany has some state elections coming up. In Germany the old established parties are losing. Slovakia already voted for a new government against more support for Ukraine.
The only way to support and help the Ukrainian people is to vote and demonstrate against funding the war. We are for the Ukrainian and Russian people, the Biden cabal is for more war, more killing of others, as long as it benefits their pockets.
The people force the politicians to think, as it stands they are traitors of their nations, they sold their nations just as Zelensky did. They were bought and paid for by the global corporate establishment, including the US government. A Baerbock as FM would have been fired a long time ago, she would not have been picked in the first place by any other chancellor than Scholz. No other chancellor would have sold out the way Scholz has done. The once proud SPD and CDU are useless and in pieces and the coalition members are no more than scum.
Politicians know, if they work well for US oligarchy, they will retire rich and no one asks how they made their money. Good example is Blair. He deceived Parliament, dragged UK in Iraq war and made good money (they say, something about $100 millions). That what is a successful politician. People had enough of it. Particular when their lives are deteriorating.
Also it looks people are tired of lies. Sometimes it is really disgusting. For example, there is a search engine Yandex. It is in Russian but one can translate it, no problem. It was created by billionaire Volzhin (born in USSR, now lives in Israel). It gives such descriptions:
Bandera – Ukrainian politician
Hitler – German politician
Utkin – Russian neo-Nazi.
Volzhin belongs to the same ethnos as Zelensky. It is particular nasty when they are applauding Nazi criminals of WW II and blame those who defeated them. How it is possible? Because it is profitable. That is what US oligarchy expects of them.
I read the estimate of Zelensky’s skimming is some $$$$ 400 million, give or take a few.
We have been laundering money through the Ukraine since the 90s. The war is the final gift, once the launder goes full war mode they get to unlock the big bucks.