The government of Ukraine is asking western nations to fund their budget. Volodymyr Zelenskyy has asked for $7 billion per month in financial assistance to retain their government obligations. Yesterday, Ukraine Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal reiterated that demand saying, “the cash, in sense of our budget, is very important for social and humanitarian responsibilities of our state to our people.”
l am not wanting to belabor a point that many have discussed here, but there really does come a time when the American people must draw a red line and ask, ‘to what end?‘ The United States government, both the white house and congress, have already pledged $14 billion dollars to Ukraine without a single representative asking the American people if they support it.
Certainly, there is an argument to be made that Ukraine needs the support of the world as they struggle with a conflict in their nation. However, charity begins at home, and for too long our national leadership has been willing to use our income taxes as tools for their own political agenda. The brazen expectation by leaders of Ukraine for the United States citizens to finance their government is, in my opinion, the last straw of a series of straws.
The issue would not be so significant if that request was not also accompanied by the visibility of western European nations, supposedly NATO allies, barely spending any money of their own wealth to assist their direct neighbor. The U.S. financial support is ridiculous when compared to how Europe is responding to the Ukraine crisis.
Compounding this issue is our own American economy and the serious pain being felt by American workers and taxpayers as the spending creates even more massive inflation that we have to cope with. We gained national independence around the premise of taxation without representation from England, and yet here we are again sending scarce income, without consultation or representation, to DC elites who send that money overseas.
(CBS) – […] MARGARET BRENNAN: But, specifically, is it medical supplies you need most? Is it heavy weapons? Is it just cash?
PRIME MINISTER DENYS SHMYHAL: We need weapon, medical support. But many countries support us because they take our injured soldiers. The cash, in sense of our budget, is very important for social and humanitarian responsibilities of our state to our people.
MARGARET BRENNAN: And that’s $4 billion to $5 billion a month Ukraine needs?
Where is the social and humanitarian consideration for our own people. The American people?
The Ukraine government request/demand is just so matter-of-factly stated as if it’s just another day in the life of a group of people who have no concept they are discussing the distribution of your earnings. They don’t even have the mental association or reference point for who and what the golden goose is that creates the baseline for them to even talk about it.
The American taxpayer is reduced to some weird, disconnected entity that was scraped from their loafer as they entered the boardroom.
At gas stations across the nation, people in real economic pain, psychologically draining and worrying anxiety, are pulling out thirty bucks to put a few gallons of gas to get them to their job where what?….
…Where they are expected to use their calloused hands to generate the payments for Ukrainian government officials to spend on their “social responsibilities of the state?”… Think about that the next time we set down the hamburger meat at the supermarket because it costs too much, or we try and figure out how to make the kids shoes last just a few months longer.
The level of rage this geopolitical disconnect is creating is entirely unsustainable.
Americans generally do not like being angry, we are the most charitable and kind people in the history of all assembled nations on this planet, but this level of being taken for granted needs to come to an end, AND SOON.
I don’t know about everyone who reads this, but the people around me are more than a little sick of this nonsense.
How much will the oligarchs in Ukraine net after the “Big Guy” and the Clinton Foundation get their cuts?
Big Guy is (P)resident now. I bet he’s upped his price. Clinton Foundation, now under investigation (so it is said), not so much. Laundering 101.
It would be interesting to know how much ends up in the pockets of FJB family. Turtle, Piglosi, and Schumer.
Please add Kerry, Cindy Mccain, Romney, Lindsey Graham, Clinton, and, what other charges are there for keeping info hidden, and then there has to be a host of other “businesses” and dealings many of you could name. Grift. Graft. Extort.
A trillion here and a trillion there and eventually you’re talking about real money.
Once the dollar is replaced or even rivaled, it’s gonna get real. Really quick.
It already is.
The Ukraine was a lawless land 100+ years ago. It is a lawless land today.
Bidens were lawless a hundred years ago..
Yesterday I wrote that Ukraine was Russia’s Puerto Rico but I was wrong. It’s ours!
As Chicago was to Al Capone…so is Ukraine to the Obama Syndicate.
Yet our Derp State corruption of Ukraine goes back to WWII, where racial cleansing was already a nationalist pastime.
Our installed regime pick their teeth with trillion dollar bills.
The President of the United States, his handlers, the media and the congress are busy sponsoring our open borders to illegal invaders and financing a war in the Ukraine we have no business in. We should be draining the DC swamp instead the whole country is going down the toilet.
I remember a man with big hair who said he was going to drain the swamp. The net effect of his presidency was he made it stronger than ever. From his stupid hires to his walking into trap after trap. He is either the dumbest president we ever had, or, worse, he was controlled opposition.
Short memory you have, and/or unrealistic perceptions of what a President is able to unilaterally control…you forget the tamped down inflation, the historic energy independence, the restraint showed by a China and North Korea brought to heel, peace in the Middle East, no new wars, rehoming manufacturing to USA, border security, reduced taxes with correlating increase in standard of living across the board. Neither stupid nor controlled opposition, unless you believe that controlled opposition actually works to the benefit of the nation. But hey, let’s throw the baby out with the bathwater…real smart, right there.
Are you obama’s wife by any chance??
“Opinions vary”
—-Dalton
OK but make sure 10% is saved aside for the Big Guy.
.
This 10% for the Big Guy is a like a pagan tithe.
$5 billion per month x 12 months = $60 billion per year x 10% = $6 billion per year for the “Big Guy” is that enough? Asking for a friend!
genius move our elite class is doing by laundering all this thru Ukraine so they don’t become affected when they collapse our economy.
btw…
Elon owns Twitter now.
https://insiderpaper.com/elon-musk-buys-twitter-for-54-20-share-in-cash/
Don’t call him by his first name. You don’t know him. And he’s not Jesus.
Secondly, Musk didn’t even put his own money up to buy twitter. He “raised” the money. So there will be people involved that have to be satisfied. How much you want to bet some Chinese venture capitalist helped give him money?
We are being sold down the river. Again.
$20bil of his own money reported by fake news. Who knows.
welll $11B is margin call money so is a loan against his Tesla stock….not technically his money
Isn’t Ukraine where the Deep State, CIA, and Congress launder money?
They won’t give that up.
EVERY Senator and member of Congress is SELLING US DOWN THE DRAIN.
Vote all incumbents OUT.
Pops used to say “Re-Elect No One”..
“Vote all incumbents OUT.”That’s the reality. ALL of them need to go. NOW. Shake that monopoly board it’s game OVER. We can do this the easy way or the hard way.
“Ukraine Asks for Billions More to Support Their Budget and Social Responsibilities for Ukrainian People”
or
OBiden Syndicate Tells Ukraine to Ask For Billions More to Support Their Budget Minus the Syndicate’s Half
His two bagmen Austin and soy boy Blinken visited Ukraine.
Picking up the 10%?
50%. At least.
Girth Vader has plenty of space to stash that cash.
They are trying to kill the DOLLAR , while lining their pockets with loot for their own ” Build ( themselves ) Back Better.”
The FED owns congress. Sound money is the answer.
Sound money will never be allowed it’s rightful place while the FED exists. Do not count on the Bank for International Settlements, International Monetary Fund or the World Economic Forum to be mere bystanders in that regard either.
This……
The United States government, both the white house and congress, have already pledged $14 billion dollars to Ukraine without a single representative asking the American people if they support it.
is why the American people should boo the crap out of every RINO in Congress and especially McConnell, McCarty and Graham everywhere they speak publicly.
Not supporting Ukraine and shoveling $Billions to it makes you one of those “crazy” people that not only McConnell talks about, but virtually all the other GOP politicians as well. They presume to speak for us yet simultaneously call us crazy when we speak for ourselves. It is breathtaking in hypocrisy and disdain and yet they act in confidence that no consequence will ever come of it.
Oh, its gone much further than “booing the crap” out of em.
Beat the crap out of them,..give them the same ending as mussolini,..
I was under the impression to send billions in weapons to a foreign country the Prez needed some sort of statutory authority or a specific congressional appropriation.
Where did that 14 Billion come from? What is being defunded / underfunded to pay for it? The US-Mex border? Customs not looking for Fentanyl? $ freed up from early prison releases? Deportation savings?
14 Billion to fund a non-ally in a far away war against a nuclear power. No debate. No discussion. No vote. Just payola.
The extortioners (Obiden et al.) are being extorted by Zelenskyy. Protection money against…what? Vlad?
So sad.
The Swamp is using Zelensky to extort the US taxpayer under the guise of foreign aid.
“the biggest scam since One Hour Martinizing”- cosmo kramer.
Ha! a blast from the past!
Giving billions of $ to Ukraine…..
while food and fuel prices……
are skyrocketing for Americans……
Geniuses……pure genius.
Khazarian Mafia …..
homebase is the Ukraine….right….???
“and for too long our national leadership has been willing to use our income taxes as tools for their own political agenda.”
Actually the problem is that our income taxes are not being used….in other words, its all made-up, printed, and/or borrow money. If we actually paid for what our “national leadership” did they would get away with it. But, since they do was are at least $30,000,000,000,000.00 plus in debt.
Okay, Ukraine wants $7 billion a month. What do they have to sell that’s worth $7 billion a month to us? Oil? Food? About the only thing they have worth buying is the top and mid-level brass in their armed forces, which is WAY more competent than ours.
This is more about laundering the money given to Ukraine and redirecting it elsewhere.
And the weapons?
Lining the pockets of their biggest donors — the military industrial complex. Nothing new there.
They end up left behind somewhere and the Russians pick them up.
“What do they have to sell that’s worth $7 billion a month to us?”
They are worth $7 billion in fiat currency to our internationalist ruling ‘elites’ to maintain their high IQ impoverished (CHEAP labor) European colony for use as a pirate’s cove playground for money laundering, sex trafficking, and drug trafficking.
Apparently the rent-a-uterus industry is thriving in Ukraine.
https://www.ukrainiansurrogates.com/intended-parents/surrogacy-in-ukraine-costs/
Ukraine had a per capita GDP of $5,ooo: the world’s least expensive white women living in a society transitioning from Godless communism to Godless globalism. There is no question in my mind that this is a huge component of globalist intransigence. This will be our fate, too, if we are not wise and stalwart during the decades ahead.
They already hated Putin because he took away their Russian playground. Their hatred is beyond obscene now that he is going to take away their Ukrainian playground, too. I hope when the killing is over the Russians dispossess all the oligarchs and publish analyses of their networks of corruption. Too many of us have an incorrect default view that most people are ‘nice’. It would be helpful to many to be reminded that it is not so.
There are a lotta Russobots making their appearance lately. This reads like a polemic from the Soviet era.
“ What do they have to sell that’s worth $7 billion a month to us? Oil? Food?”
They have one-trillion cubic meters of natural gas in proven reserves, the second highest in Europe.
Ukraine approximates Texas in size and petroleum assets.
They also furnish the world’s second highest level of food oil ( sunflower oil) for export.
So Ukraine has a lot of food and natural gas for sale but a tenuous defense industry, which makes them attractive as a country for Putin to invade.
Biden and his progressive democrat handlers and supporters are giving them our tax money. Why do they care more about Ukraine than their own country? No doubt they are taking a piece of the pot.
Any Treepers that are AML analysts at the big banks and brokerage firms? We need you.
They don’t care about either country. They care only about the money. They need to spend this money, and Ukraine is as good a place as any to throw it away.
“All wars are bankers’ wars. ” (I forget who said that, or I would give them credit.)
Billions used to mean something, just like a $20 bill in my wallet meant something….
LOL, love the picture of Zelensky begging! This request better be refused but I have a feeling the Biden puppet will be running to grant this outrageous request. And I’m sorry but is Ukraine even fighting a war? It doesn’t look like they’ve done a damn thing except ship some people out of their country and ask for money, not that I care because I feel Russia has a right to move into the Donbas and surrounding areas and secure it. Zelensky thinks he’s a character in MASH or something. What a farce as usual.
When I see Ukraine government ask-manding money from the US, I see the US politicians telling the Ukraine government “you will get more money, but so will I! But you need to let the public see you needing help first!”
Honestly I could not care less about Ukraine if I tried and if Russia were doing to us, what we are doing to them, we would already be at war. So my vote is NOT ONE PENNY nor one more bullet or weapon.
And when the American taxpayers finally say No, in some form, the Ukrainians will betray us, quicker than the Flash with diarrhea.
I remember the article by Sundance not too long ago about how the administrations could be good stewards and offset the cost of fertilizer for our farmers. This administration could help the farmers deal with the astronomical costs, in general.
This administration could fund the building of pipelines to expand the flow of oil. The mere announcement of this funding could lower cost. Here’s an example. The admin announced that they are using the strategic oil reserve to lower the cost of gas. The prices did dip down. However, most of the oil is going to Europe as it turns out. So, the dip is psychological.
This administration hates us and wants usto starve. Once we are starving then they will implement rationing using digital ID, which I think is the end goal.
These leftist administrations don’t give a damn about Ukraine. FDR did not care if the Ukranians were starving to death en masse in the 30’s and the current leftist admin does not care if men, women and children are blown to bits by a war that they goaded Russia into doing.
It is all about vicious leftist politics.
Biden’s handlers don’t want Russia to prevail before the midterms thinking that is going to help them (it won’t), so open your wallets US taxpayers!
Should be negotiating a peace not giving them more weapons.
We have no obligation to give any government money.
Unless we encouraged this war and with our current demoncracy this is likely. Since this is probably true the cross dressing actor will keep saying we should pay.
When our debt is called, it won’t be our government or politicians who go broke. It will be us, the taxpayers.
And, until then….
Treasury Motto: We can’t be out of money until we are out of ink and paper.
Empress Piglosi’s fence or no fence, it’s past time for the millions of taxpaying citizens of America to converge on DC & simply refuse to move.
Nothing in. Nothing out. Nobody moves. Period.
Sadly, it’s not just the Feds who are cannibalizing the tax slaves- it is every level of government from DC down to our towns and villages. The People of our once great Republic are nothing more than a piggy bank for millions of bureaucrats and “elected” officials.
I live in a small town in NY where we have no commercial tax base. All the money to run the schools, town and county comes from homeowners. In my experience, once these people get elected to any position, no matter how insignificant, they change and no longer care about how much things cost. The higher up the food chain the worse it gets.
By the time the vultures get done with us, how much is really left? Income tax, gas tax, town tax, school tax, library tax, road tax, village tax, state taxes, etc. etc. ad infinitum. Then there are the innumerable fees for everything from getting a fishing license, a trade license, building permits, you name it. Do we even get to keep 10% of our earnings?
I agree, this business with Z-man and the corrupt Ukraine should be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. There seems to be no one in Con-gress that stands for the American citizen/taxpayer on a daily basis, who will just say NO.
Instead I see these war hawks on the news shows- including Tom Cotton who I like- saying we need to give MORE MONEY to Z-man. The hell with that! I am sick and tired of this BS.
#FJB and FVZ
The Dems are already working on their “autopsy report” for an election that is still months away.
And insisting “its a messaging problem”, by which they mean they aren’t adequately presenting their message, NOT any recognition that the message itself is flawed…and also blaming the RECIPIENT of the message; that we are just too stupid to understand what they are doing.
This article about Ukraine, is just one more in a long list, that qualify as;
“Its because of sh*t like THIS, that I voted for Trump!”
And they really don’t GET it.
I want a million or so for my people.
Aaayyyyy! I got “prrogrammms” ovah hee-ah! Fuggedaboutit!!!
I wish I had never heard of Puke-rain. Meanwhile, with my Uninsured White Privilege, trying to get a blood test to see if I have Chagas disease after a run in with a “Kissing Bug” is next to impossible. Going to a woke Emergency Room (All of them) without some sort of visible trauma while experiencing “UWP” and being treated worse than homeless junkie does not excite me.
$7B per month with their backs up against the wall and a gun pointed at their heads. Pretty clear where the $ is going. Foreign banks once these sleaze bags hit the road. And of course, 10% for the big guy.
Ukraine is finished. Russia is destroying all infrastructure. Our response should be, “You break it, you buy it.” Cut off all military support – we are going to need those supplies for ourselves. Humanitarian aide for refugees.
Kept women expect to be maintained in style in exchange for the obscene acts they perform upon demand.
Why should a kept nation require any less?
I recall the EU gave financial assistance to these member states : Portugal, Ireland and Greece. The PIGs group.
Zelenskyy should pressure/ coerce EU for admittance and bailout, rather than the USA.
Hit them up.
Ok, so once you give power away you never get it back. Our Congress, full of traitors and cowards, gave away its budgetary and war making powers. And in order to even get to Congress, in most cases, you have to be soulless.
Jim Jordan? He takes money from Google. Stefanik? Huge whore for Ukraine. There are a few patriots out there, but that’s just to give Congress the veneer of fairness.
At this point it would be easier making Ukraine the 51st state than reigning in the war dogs.
Our administration in charge who hasn’t made one decision in 17 months that benefits the citizens of the USA will now use our taxpayer $ and ukraine’s military to fight Russia that once again helps our country how?
There hasn’t been one piece of legislation that helped the USA in almost 30 years.
Aside from President Trump and Governor DeSantis I can’t name one leader who has done anything to benefit us in 30 years.
That’s one of the better ideas I’ve heard lately!
I have an idea, too.
Instead of continually complaining about how bad it is to live in New York, why don’t you move to Florida or Texas and save the Treehouse some bandwidth?
You don’t like Trump. You don’t like Jordan. You don’t like Stefanik.
You know what, Mike? I like all three.
It’s you I don’t like.
It seems Zelenskyy is not interested in a peace settlement and the question, if he truly cares about ordinary Ukrainians, is “why?”.
How else is he going to get our hard earned tax dollars?
It’s a money laundering operation. Nothing more.
Oh, it’s much more.
The Ukes, whatever you may feel about them, are not and have never been US allies, we don’t share a common culture or language, don’t have a defense treaty, are not big trading partners…I mean what makes them more special than, say Borneo, as far as demanding we pay for their existence? Are they teenagers?
Even in WW2 the US did “Lend-Lease”.
Did the Brits ask us to pay for their lorry drivers, bobbies and nannies too? I think not.
Exactly how is Uke not a vassal state if the US is paying for their government’s existence?
One could make a case of Ukraine being a satrapy of the Deep State.
State, Defense Secretaries Visit Ukraine, Pledge $713M in Military Aid
Watch the markets.
So now we are supposed to be the Sugar Daddy to the world? We have homeless people in this country. We have veterans who were wounded DEFENDING our “honor” in “wars” who are in need. We have the most porous border in the history of our country and an administration who keeps sending signals for all the indigents of this world to “Come on in, the treasury’s yours”! And now, it isn’t enough that we’re defending the Ukranian border with our money and arms, now they want us to prop up THEIR economy while our is going to H, E, double Hockey sticks in a handbasket? It would appear that the last election could only be won by those who could breathe but not think rationally. Wow. Just wow!!
Another typical unohoo shakedown…
This is what we are allowed to see above – board , what is being delivered covertly ?
USAWatchdog .com – Greg Hunter talks with Clif High about several things including WEF and Ukraine.
He says Ukraine is where the ” big club ” keep all their stolen loot , the war is trying to protect that .
“Ukraine is where the ‘big club’ keep all their stolen loot ,..”
Ukraine is the second poorest country in Europe. If the “ big club” keeps its money there, it is not getting a very good ROI.
At this point, I hate the people running the United States Government and I’m willing to join any army to bring them down. They have corrupted our government and country beyond belief, they’ve destroyed our lives, freedoms, liberties and our dreams. I despise them. I want them gone.
“I’m willing to join any army to bring them down.”
Treason is in season these days.
Are these being done by Executive Orders? Since when do they get to take our hard earned tax dollars at the whim of one man with EO. It needs to be voted on and then we can see how many rats vote for sending our tax dollars to a corrupt country most likely benefitting those in power.
That staged image on top of the 3 Stooges displaying a perfect balance mocking those who know the truth while simultaneously feeding the low info mass psychotics.
Where are their ties? Where is Zelensky’s suit jacket?
They look like they are hanging out after work.
Picture. The secretary of inclusion and diversity, the scammer/grifter in the middle and the
soy boy who is China’s favorite punching bag.
That’s exactly why elected democrats and their unelected bureaucrats at Justice, State, and Intel, and the media wastelands are fighting soooo hard to maintain control.
It’s a giant piggy bank that they use to enhance their political leverage which makes them wealthy at the same time.
Ambulance Chasers scorching the earth behind them on their way to opulence!
Dangerously sick, shallow people.
Not even an attempt at the words loan or bonds or debt obligations? Just hey America you love us just give us $7B a month because the Ukraine is so darling and precious. F@ck these corrupt leeches. Sure ok…start with Vindman and Yovanovichs salaries. You know if the Ukraine is doing so well against the Russians why do they keep telling us they need more stuff? Meanwhile Putin does exactly what he said….takes over pro Russisn part of the country and systematically degrades the Ukrainian military capability. My guess is with 2 months Odesa flies a Russian flag and the Ukraine has a new border at the Dneper River. F@ck these Ukrainuan leeches and their American benefactors. Enougb lies!