Posted on 09/05/2023 7:37:35 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Ukraine is spending approximately $100 million a day on the war against Russia, outgoing Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov said in an interview with state media.
In a lengthy sit-down with state-owned Ukrinform for his first interview since his ousting on Sunday, the former defence minister attempted to dispel suggestions of his involvement in the mounting corruption scandals swirling around the war effort.
When pressed on the allocation of money donated by the public to the military since Russia’s invasion, Reznikov said that such donations have been minimal in comparison to foreign funding and taxation, claiming that only 3 per cent of the war has been subsidised by public donations.
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Sour grapes.
“A day of war costs us 100 million dollars,” he said. “The army today is the largest consumer of funds. But funds are also needed for the maintenance of the country as a whole: for infrastructure, for reconstruction, for supporting the socially vulnerable.”
We are funding everything. The socially vulnerable? What about our own homeless and those living in poverty?
Let’s not forget that NATO is using all of their old stuff and buying brand new top of the line stuff. Thanks USA!
At this point I’m hoping this mess breaks our bank. The American public will need pain before they wake up.
Ukraine “socially vulnerable”? WTH?
No. 45+ nations are sending weapons to Ukraine.
Amazing how the US sent Ukraine 100 billion last year out of a TOTAL 6.6 TRILLION budget, but you, like a liberal believe there was not enough spending on "own homeless and those living in poverty". Okay
Let's not forget who is really profiting from this war. Follow the money.
The war against poverty. Probably refers to the pensioners and refugees whom we are paying their benefits. How do we ever cut this off?
Don’t forget 10 percent for the big guy in the White House, and another 10 percent for Zelensky. By time all the thieves get their cut, it’s probably $10 MILLION a day for the war.
And $10-15,000,000 of that goes into our pockets so we have something to live off when the fighting stops and we all move to western Europe or Dubai.
Interesting.
We have a $2 trillion annual budget deficit this calendar year. We are the world's biggest debtor nation. We have to BORROW THE MONEY to send to Ukraine.
Annual debt servicing costs on our $32.5 trillion national debt are approximately $600 billion. It will soon exceed DOD's annual budget. We can't afford these endless wars that don't involve our strategic national interests.
You sound like a Neocon globalist who never found a war you didn't like. Not one more cent should be sent to Ukraine, one of the most corrupt countries in the world. We are prolonging this proxy war, which stated in 2014 after the US/EU engineered coup of the duly elected government of Ukraine. It was led by Victoria Nuland. It spawned the separatist movement in the Donbas and the first unopposed Russian invasion that annexed Crimea.
This all started under the Obama/Biden Administration. We have a compromised President who took millions in bribes from Ukraine. How much of our policy towards Ukraine is affected by the leverage Ukraine has over Biden?
We are now in a new Cold War that has resulted in a global political realignment, which is extremely dangerous for us. Most of the world is ignoring the sanctions against Russia, which has moved closer to China, the real existential threat to America.
As Robert Gates, former defense secretary in the Obama administration, once put it, Biden has “been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” You Bidenbots can defend this guy all you want. It doesn't change reality.
“45+ nations”… lol, as always the USA does the heavy lifting. Ukraine is a beggar state. Completely bankrupt both morally and fiscally. Other nations may contribute, but we pay the bulk for the entirety for their existence; every government salary, civil service retirement, and all social benefits. Ukraine will collapse the instant the money flow stops.
Translation: US and European taxpayers are paying $100 million a day on the war since they are subsidizing everything in Ukraine.
Just think of the boarder walls we could have.
There is no such villa, it is yet another fake mansion story.
Joe Biden and Congressional Democrats said $5 billion for Trump’s border wall was too expensive and we couldn’t afford it, but $120 billion and growing for Ukraine? Sure!
I’d rather have spent the $5 billion on the wall.
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