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.
With you 100%. Americans First. Even worse, Fed is just adding zeros to a screen and poof! Instant fiat currency for Ukraine, payoffs for US ruling class and UP goes global inflation.
Laundering furiously what they can while they can before Russia closes in. Fk Ukraine.
FVZ
/\ a thousand times!!! I try not to invoke the word “hate” but I have reached a point where I HATE THIS ADMINISTRATION for what it is doing to us.
I reached that point before the illegal occupational puppet was installed. “The most honest election in the history of planet earth,” ROTFLMFAO!
As I have said, the opposite of whatever they say is the truth: The most dishonest election in the history of planet earth.
Has Volod been clothes shopping at the Cuban Army/Navy Surplus store? Lookin’ a little like a young Fidel.
Maybe Che look alike.
I think Zelensky has a modern day terrorist look to him in this latest photo shoot.
Zelensky obviously likes to play dress up and even takes on the persona of the clothes!
Maybe from his acting background which has continued with a soap opera schedule that may beat Andrew Cuomo’s daily Covid updates.
He even puts on high heels and dances around like a Kansas City faggot.
Ze-man, standing next to two of the biggest traitors in the US, not a ringing endorsement to the taxpayers he is milking.
… and our two simps removed their neckties so as to not make it even more obvious how dressed-down Ze is
And Austin is the ultimate failure and traitor, the one who knuckled under and let Blinken and his Dept of State softees call the shots on the Afghanistan withdrawal – sorry – capitulation
… to disastrous result and loss of American lives … and others
Austin is nothing but a really fat black pig.
… and he bees all raycissss an’ sheeeeit
Him and Gen Milley, who ostentatiously let everyone know he’s reading up on “white fragility” – another anti-white racist
… and I think I recall that he announced that when he was being questioned by the press about the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal
… press wanted military answers in a time of military crisis and he decided it was a good time to announce that he’s reading up on racial issues
Milley is an embarrassment. Every single one of them taking a wrecking ball to the country.
Vietnamese pot bellied pigs are actually black.
Pigs are noble creatures.
My apology to pigs everywhere….
USSA Military “STARS” especially the 4 Stars are TRAITORS. They need to Hang, along with the democRAT and Rino Quisling DC SWAMP Politicians. ( that’s the vast majority of DC)
That’s what we get with Affirmative Action incompetence and traitors installed by globalists.
I’m beginning to hate Zelensky as much as I hate the geriatric punch dummy in the fake WH studio.
Is someone being blackmailed here?
yeah, WE are
see comment by Md just downthread
That’s about right.
Smells like a payoff to DESTROY THE LABS that were built and run by the US———-
Bingo! Not just someone but a whole bunch of scumbags.
For some reason, drop dead keeps wanting to be typed.
SOOOOOO tired of being
~ the piggy’$ bank
of the world
Called Senator Murray and Senator Cantwell here in WA. No one picked up the phone. Each has three offices, not just the office in D.C. Left name and number for a return call — intending to say pretty much what you just posted. Z. disgusts me, and I said that, too. Which I guess means I won’t be getting a return call.
Prolly not! 😂
Nope. Only a form letter if that.
Samsonite has had a run on suitcases, they are backordered out to 2024…
… just in time for the U.S. Presidential election
(they fit nicely under tables in vote-counting rooms)
For that much we should at least get Odessa.
Or at least a half of a battalion of Azovs.
Our NAZIs don’t come cheap.
We have Little Odessa in NY, but you have to understand Russian communism to live there. /s
“Brighton is not quite Odessa, Russia or New York, but some confused amalgam of everything in between…”
“Looking around, it was easy to see that Skovorodka was not just a restaurant that served Russian cuisine, but one that served as hangout for Brighton Beach Russian immigrants…
“Yana Breban, 46, the co-owner of Skovorodka, was born in the Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, and immigrated to Brooklyn at the age of 8 in 1979. Her parents, Boris and Julia, opened the restaurant as a way to create a sanctuary for displaced Russians attempting to escape 20th century communism in the Soviet Union.”
Little Odessa – Brighton Beach, Brooklyn
eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/littlenyc/little-odessa-brighton-beach-brooklyn/
“But, specifically, is it medical supplies you need most? Is it heavy weapons? Is it just cash?”
“Mo money, mo money, mo money, mo money …”
Send Lawyers, guns, and money!
There’s an argument to be made to allow Russia to meet its objectives and end the war.
Watch this video as Putin receives his briefing on the progress of the attack against Mariupol. His hands clutch the sides of the table for support and he repeatedly clears his throat nervously.
You can almost sense the walls closing in on him as he contemplates his abject failure and the likelihood that an FSB officer will soon push a knife in his ribs.
http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/68254
That’s interesting, I don’t get that, but then I’m not a mind reader, he sounds pretty confident to me and what he has to say doesn’t seem to reflect your take in the least.
V. Putin: I think the proposed storming of the industrial zone is unreasonable.
I am ordering you to cancel it.
S. Shoigu: Yes, it is.
VLADIMIR PUTIN: This is a case where we have to think – I mean we always have to think, but in this case all the more about saving the lives and health of our soldiers and officers. There is no need to get into these catacombs and crawl underground over these industrial facilities.
Seal off this industrial zone so that no flies get through.
S. Shoigu: Yes, I do.
V. Putin: Once again, ask those who have not yet laid down their arms to do so. The Russian side will guarantee their lives and treat them with dignity, in accordance with the relevant international legal instruments. All those who have been wounded will be provided with qualified medical assistance.
The completion of the combat work to liberate Mariupol is a success. I congratulate you. Pass on your words of gratitude to the troops. Please submit proposals for awarding our distinguished soldiers with state awards. Clearly, there is no other way in such cases, these are different awards, but I want them all to know: in our understanding they are all heroes, in the understanding of the whole of Russia. They are all heroes.
The bit about “Walls Closing In” sounds suspiciously familiar though…
Everyday the walls were closing in on PRESIDENT TRUMP.
Supposedly.
Recall who all endlessly sang that silly refrain?
Too bad some of our own political class don’t feel they need to save lives of our own military people. Instead they just throw they away and don’t even thank them for their service. The same service that said politicians also swore to when they took their oath of office, but they seem to have forgotten that they DID TAKE AN OATH OF OFFICE….way back when. It just doesn’t mean much to them.
After listening to our politicians, you gotta love the directness of a Russian conversation. So refreshing.
The walls are closing in on XXXXX! Where have we heard that before? LOL
Yes, Klaus definitely has him this time!
Chris, not to be unkind, but you are dreaming.
ROTFLMAO. Yeah. Right. The Ukraine bots are getting desperate.
This is essentially them telling our political class, “pay up or we’re gonna tell!”
Zelensky is demanding billions each month. Outrageous demand a sane government would reject unless he knows too much so they have to keep paying him off.
Does he have that level of protection?
As part of the deal, launder through another country, so the usual “investors” who are DC Swamp elites, get their share of the billions we’re “giving” you.
What’s the percentage to those buffoons on either side of the small one? No wonder their smiles.
Bleeding America dry while we wait for elections.
Waiting for Elections,,, another one of the Grimm Brothers Fairy Tales.
Exactly.
Tell Ukraine and Z to o suck a bag of *icks. No more money!!! ever!
Oh, but the big guy (gag) wants his 10%.
He would like that. Did you not see him dancing around shirtless in high heels?
It is a great worry to not know if they are receiving all the money or if THE BIDENS are getting their share !!?? that country is very corrupt and so are THE Bidens!!
Americans’ mare such pigeons. I can’t believe how many of my conservative friends were and are Zelenski/ Ukraine supporters. …totally pathetic. All they had to do is see who Biden is backing and immediately do a 180.
Remind me of why we didn’t just give Putin the welfare state of Ukraine? Oh yeah, Biden has interests there…that’s right. Something about a crackhead and a laptop with pictures on it.
$7 billion a month and counting at a minimum. It all could have been avoided. What’s worse is the senseless loss of young lives. But, the big guy and the Ukraine actor playing president don’t care about the pawns that are dying, maimed and displaced. German president’s proposals giving security guarantees to Russia were rejected by the druggie clown leading Ukraine. Now Ukraine will become a rump state and even more of a failed state then they were.
The failed rump state just struck its second oil depot deep inside enemy lines.
https://t.me/tipical32/1304
And I await the rumble of the Bear bombers to retaliate. Russia has handled this with kid gloves so far. Their patience will break and the Ukie-puke NAZIs will howl.
Right, that was Ukraine.
Where is the American Lt. Col that was arrested by the Russians? An advisor?
Biden Stumbles Toward War – Russians Move On U.S. Submarine (substack.com)
“Men who have never heard a shot fired in anger, never put their lives on the line, and have no earthly idea what strategy they are pursuing have put the whole world in danger. We may be about to pay the price for that incompetence.
According to Russian state media, a U.S. Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarine was detected today in Russian territorial waters off the Kuril Islands. Per Russian reports, the vessel was found submerged near the island of Urup while Russia’s Pacific Fleet was holding exercises in the area. Russian vessels then contacted the submarine, warned that it was in the country’s territorial waters, and ordered it to surface immediately.
Again, per Russian reporting, the submarine did not respond to messages and a Russian destroyer was then dispatched to chase it off. The Russian vessel used what is described as “appropriate means” to drive the American sub away. The Russian reports indicate that the submarine deployed an active radar decoy before moving away at full speed.
This is the way wars start. All it will take will be one exchange of fire. An aircraft will go down. A ship will be torpedoed. Lives will be lost. The clamor to hit back will begin. The men who run the world’s biggest defense contractors will join the push. The prospect of endless profits from another conflict will be too great to resist.
We are adrift in perilous waters with a senile empty suit of a President who sold his soul to Communist China long ago at the helm. He is surrounded by spineless incompetents who now seek to pose as men of strength and project power. There could hardly be a more dangerous combination.”
Sam Faddis, Retired CIA Operations Officer
The “good News” is that by having a Chicom Puppet president the outcome of “the War” is predetermined. The USA “loses”. What is “Lost”??? About 3 Aircraft carriers with thousands per ship, Rapidly. Biden-Obama sue for “peace” and get a version of the Versailles Treaty of WW I imposed on the USA, with democRats installed as the Permanent Ruling Party Puppets for the Chicoms. The USA and citizens become peasants in a Vassal State of China. Welcome to the NWO.
It wouldn’t be pretty, certainly, you have a pretty specific scenario worked out it seems, surely hope it doesn’t go that way, there are a gazillion ways war goes sideways so who knows, but it’s agreed that our corrupt criminal creep of a pretend president is destined to doom us if WWXi goes hot.
Sam is a good guy, and he knows whats going on!
Think about what was lost in the Afghanistan in military equipment , Money lost and money given. The billions going to Ukraine and the budget. What illegal immigration is costing. It’s the fault of the MSM because without them Biden and the Democrats would be exposed.
3 of the biggest grifters around. Shut e’m down and get the hell outta there. HOW ABOUT OUR BORDER?
one wonders how much of the aid is being stolen – no more US govt aid – get it from liberal US elites who need to feel better
Anyone whose flying ukies flag should send more of their own damn money.
Well, they are fighting our proxy war…
…..in my book, no argument can be made that Ukraine needs the support of the world as they struggle with a conflict that came about because Zelensky provoked Putin…..
……….support them by tethering them to the negotiating table…..no military supplies….no $$$….i have a great idea…..Hillary and Joe and all the other corrupt politicians can donate all the $$ that they made in corrupt deals over the years to support Ukraine……I DO NOT WANT ONE CENT OF MY $$$ USED THERE
That is the symbol of the Kievan Rus, the Norse founders of Ukraine about a thousand years ago. It is featured in most of their Nazi flags and symbols, and essentially represents an appeal to the mythical racial purity of the past which only proper racial cleansing can restore. This particular ideology was well founded and quite active before Hitler came along, with substantial genocidal events and pogroms taking place.
While some organizations were established after 1990, earning the appellation Neo-Nazi, the reality is that most are Paleo-Nazis with a host of grievances and animosities that predated Nazi Germany and persist and flourish to this day.
The CIA has been running them for a very long time.
I guess most of the NAZI shock troops are direct descendants of the Banderites.
Absolutely.
“The level of rage this geopolitical disconnect is creating is entirely unsustainable.”
WHEN DOES THE REVOLUTION BEGIN?
it’s not $7 Billion per month.
It’s $7,000,000,000.00 per month.
It’s not their money.
It’s not our money.
It is my money, they are taking, and handing over to thieves.
Ukraine Asks for Billions More to Support Their Budget and Social Responsibilities
NOT OUR PROBLEM. SOLVE YOUR OWN FINANCIAL PROBLEMS FROM NOW ON. QUIT TAKING FROM OUR PEOPLE.
This is Ukraine wanting a BIDEN PAYBACK for Burisma etc
Give us the money or else…
I’ve often wondered what “blackmail of a ‘compromised’ world leader” would look like.
I guess we now know.
Errr…..sorry.
The Ukraine adventure isn’t about protecting slimy, incriminating Hunter> Joe information…..
No matter who wins, that’s a given., Joe is protected…..
ie. .Ukraine endures, “nothing to see”….. Russia prevails (a certainty “no-one believes their narrative”
Power is about whom to prosecute for the same crime……. and whom to ignore.
More correctly….(a certainty, “no-one believes their narrative”).
So not on top of it all, they want the American Public to pay for their wages and retirement benefits on top of that……I just with America would keep all their money that they collect from the people to themselves. We should keep our own wages, not give them to another country. We as a country have given the rest of the whole world more money than we spend on our own people. Shame on us. We need to take care of our own people.
“Americans generally do not like being angry”
We’re about to find out whether this is predeliction-unto-death. To be honest, I never understood cold anger. Sounds like passive aggression. No Bastille ever fell through mass seething.
I find Americans’ capacity for absorbing a perpetual obslaught of indignities exceed that of many other peoples. Maybe a bout of hyperinflation will spark mass unrest.
By that time, the myocarditis laced with hunger pangs could act as a retardant. That may be the footrace we’re in with the globalists.
Two of Biden’s biggest losers making a sh#t sandwich …
The Ukraine is not our problem. It is beyond disgusting that we are sending them billions
and billions of dollars.
How about spending that money defending our southern border with Mexico ?
And with the money left over after finishing the wall we can help out the thousands of American veterans who came home from the endless wars in the Mideast with missing limbs and other
disabilities.
Our government is a disgrace.
This is not about Ukraine.
It’s about weakening Putin/Russia due to its promoting anti-dollar reserve policies around the world. Granted Ukraine is where the physical war is being fought but it is a much wider war than that.
It’s why US and West will continue to support Ukraine financially and militarily, no matter the cost.
NATO will be accepting Finland and Norway application for entry soon. This was the stated line in the sand for Russia in regard to Ukraine. If Russia were to interfere in their joining, NATO would have a duty to defend. It’s why Lazrov threatened use of nukes and stated Russia is already at war with NATO.
The dominos are now in place to fall into WW3. Not because of Russia invading Ukraine but because Putin/Russia have been working on destabilizing the US and EU currencies.
How do we know this to be true? US never intervened in Russia-Ukraine War and the media has been a propaganda tool in promoting anti-Russian sentiment areouns the US and West.
Face it, America is, completely, a nation of Broken Slaves !
We are a nation of people who SOLD THEMSELVES OUT COMPLETELY- along with the Country the Founders created, all those years ago !
Every day that passes, I dislike Zelensky more and more. He wants more money and he is going to get it because he has the goods and dirty laundry list of the Bidens and the rest of the politicians.
Don’t you guys get it? They called us enemies of the state. They know a large majority voted for Trump and his policies and we are being punished. Oil shortage? LMAO. Engineered shortage and they squeeze us till they bleed us dry. Food shortage? Trains can’t deliver fertilizer and they blow up food processing plants. The only conclusion I can come to is they are purposefully driving us to revolt so they can justify locking down the country forever. Good bye constitution. Good bye any freedom at all, cancel elections for good, and declare themselves in office for life like royalty to “save democracy” ROTF.
Margaret Brennan is nothing more than a wanna be Leni Riefenstahl.
She is a hack!
For 20 years the USA has done great harm to Ukraine and its people.
We are stringing them along knowing they can’t win to weaken Russia and all we have accomplished is tens of thousands of dead, hundreds of thousands if not millions in misery and strengthened Russia’s influence in the world.
Russia’s economy is backed by the biggest gold and oil reserves in the world and after global warming probably the worlds greatest agricultural county.
Our economy is now backed by spit, polish and paper.
My comment seems to be missing.
American taxpayers paying Ukraine pensions plus a little for the big guy and the rest of the cabal. For the weapons that aren’t destroyed by Russia, wonder where they’ll end up. Quite the gig.
Hey Red Rover: America’s Over !
Face it.
ah… NO!
There has to be a reason for this irrational spending in Ukraine. What are they kicking back to our political elites? Any way “we the people” can find out?
It’s a massive flow of money. To do any good it must get past the sharks.
The corrupt politicans on both sides will now continue thier money laundering operation. Stealing from US, and our children’s children. Welcome to WW III. The new and improved world war. No wonder they want all us veterans d e a d.
Ukraine is smaller than the State of Texas for goodness’ sake – where can all of that money possibly be going? Is J. Biden being blackmailed? Whatever the reasons for this massive, arrogant, irresponsible spending, it is grossly unfair to the American taxpayer – not fair at all…
Time for Zelensky to set up a Go Fund Me account. No way should U.S. taxpayers cough up for Ukrainian welfare cases. That country is brave – but it’s also not 100% legit.