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The Fourteen Facts about US Aid to Ukraine
Hudson Institute ^ | 11/3/2024 | Luke Coffey

Posted on 11/07/2023 1:37:49 PM PST by marcusmaximus

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FACTS:

 

41 posted on 11/07/2023 2:22:36 PM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: marcusmaximus
"Since Russia invaded Ukraine for the second time in eight years, Russian troops have ravaged Ukraine’s cities, raped its women, and stolen its children."

That's a bullshit lie and you are a bullshit liar for parroting it.

42 posted on 11/07/2023 2:22:42 PM PST by ganeemead (everything )
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To: Allegra

You should read the article with an open mind, too.


43 posted on 11/07/2023 2:22:45 PM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: ganeemead

Where’s Putin?


44 posted on 11/07/2023 2:23:18 PM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: kiryandil; jimwatx; JonPreston; cabojoe

And then there’s this version. Hilarious. He will “geev you back monny.” 😂

https://rumble.com/v3ua5m4-zelensky-morphs-into-nigerian-prince-email-scammer.html


45 posted on 11/07/2023 2:27:05 PM PST by Allegra (Stop the Zeepers from Censoring FReepers)
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To: marcusmaximus
"Russia is our enemy."

Russia is a Christian nation. It is an enemy only to stupid and evil people.

46 posted on 11/07/2023 2:27:28 PM PST by ganeemead (everything )
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To: marcusmaximus

There are an awful lot of ‘facts’ this fellow is promoting - with just his mouth and bravado as proof. In looking at his background, I can see why.

https://www.hudson.org/experts/1453-luke-coffey


47 posted on 11/07/2023 2:27:54 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: kiryandil

Thanks bro but I’m realistic. Too many Christian Zionists on here and I’m not into that nutso stuff. My own sister is into it and she’s mentally ill. If Free Republic likes that (and no doubt they are major donors) then so be it. But these people are hardly America first and I’m done with their nonsense. Let the chips fall where they may. But I can’t indulge these idiots much longer. Let them ban me I don’t care.


48 posted on 11/07/2023 2:28:30 PM PST by jimwatx
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To: ganeemead

Where’s Putin?


49 posted on 11/07/2023 2:29:12 PM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: cabojoe

🤣👍


50 posted on 11/07/2023 2:30:27 PM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: marcusmaximus

F-15 ‘s on the way as well.


51 posted on 11/07/2023 2:30:56 PM PST by Sunsong
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To: marcusmaximus

One normally would, but the claim that there has never been more accountability than here, now in this series of funding/arms assistance events is ludicrous.

According to the government we have little or no inflation, no recession, the CPIs are great, employment is great - nothing’s wrong. Ha.... Biden is still giving money to the Taliban in Afghanistan for cripes sake.


52 posted on 11/07/2023 2:32:09 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: marcusmaximus

Where’s Putin, you ask? Killing Ukrainian Nazis.


53 posted on 11/07/2023 2:32:09 PM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: marcusmaximus; Allegra

54 posted on 11/07/2023 2:32:31 PM PST by cabojoe ( 🇺🇸 Stop Ukie censorship. Release Gonzalo Lira)
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A Third of Humanitarian Aid for Ukraine’s Military has ‘Disappeared’

Kiev Post ^ | 10/20/23 | Kiev Post

Posted on 10/20/2023, 12:58:32 PM by JonPreston

Around a third of the humanitarian aid intended for the armed forces did not reach the 200 or so military units for which it was intended after clearing customs, the State Customs Service of Ukraine has said.

“During 9 months of 2023, as a result of the joint measures of the Department for Combating Smuggling and Customs Violations of the State Customs Service and the Department of Internal Audit of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, more than 9,000 instances of the movement of humanitarian aid goods intended for 200 military units were checked,” the agency said.

In doing so they established more than 3,000 cases of where its receipt by military units had not been confirmed.

Customs also reported that they had sent 387 reports that indicated possible criminal actions the Criminal Code of Ukraine [regarding illegal use of humanitarian aid for profit - ed.]

(Excerpt) Read more at kyivpost.com ...


55 posted on 11/07/2023 2:33:45 PM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: Sunsong

So be it, mama!


56 posted on 11/07/2023 2:33:47 PM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: jimwatx
--- "Wow they actually removed my comment."

While I have no idea what you wrote which triggered a moderator to "remove" a comment, something irritated....

The article is not filled with facts, in anything other than the polemical way. It is opinion, masquerading as fact. So looking at the Hudson Institute, one learns that it is three short blocks from the White House, for starters. Nothing like being near to the seat of power.

Details:

Hudson Institute
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Fourth Floor
Washington, DC 20004

Its leadership is doing quite nicely. "JOHN P. WALTERS, PRESIDENT AND CEO, $ 545,542 salary.

Nice work, if you can get it.
Of the 501(c)3 "charity" which pays no income taxes for being "charitable", one learns of the group. Form 990: With "functional expenses" of $22,325,841 on a gross of EOY $ 86,634,994. or about 25 percent of its total assets to pay its staff and benefits.

Source: Hudson Form 990 FY 2022

As to the author, "A native of Missouri, he and his family currently reside in Northern Virginia." He is part of the governmental elite.

Our upper class, deeply involved with the UK as with the US government can be gleaned by reading through Luke Coffey's bio online.

Luke Coffey
My favorite laugher of the "facts" is:
"Fact: The US is not engaged in a proxy war against Russia."
Why?
"The definition of a proxy war is a war 'fought by states acting at the instigation or on behalf of other states'.”
Got that? Because some other nation didn't tell the US to fund the Ukraine-Russia war these last years, it isn't BY DEFINITION a "proxy war."Because were not "acting on behalf of other states." Though, of course, we are.

Word games for the rubes.

Meanwhile....

Debt Clock

Federal Budget Deficit Grew to $2 Trillion in FY 2023 Tax Foundation, 12 October 2023


57 posted on 11/07/2023 2:34:36 PM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: C210N

There are fast-talking used car salesmen in shiny suits I’d trust more than that shyster. 😂

https://rumble.com/v3ua5m4-zelensky-morphs-into-nigerian-prince-email-scammer.html


58 posted on 11/07/2023 2:35:00 PM PST by Allegra (Stop the Zeepers from Censoring FReepers)
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"Let’s not forget that Ukraine is the main player in the market of surrogacy, organ predation, and human trafficking, which also feeds the pedophile network. The denunciations of humanitarian organizations leave no doubt about these unprecedented horrors: children are being killed and dismembered to send their organs to clinics in the West; wounded Ukrainian soldiers are having their organs harvested for the same purpose; the lives of innocent creatures are being sold to rich perverts to satisfy their abominable deviations. And we know how much the deep state is composed of characters who can be blackmailed precisely in furtherance of these execrable crimes, a dynamic highlighted by the recent film Sound of Freedom." ~ Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò


59 posted on 11/07/2023 2:35:02 PM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: marcusmaximus

Iran, Hamas and NK have nothing to do with whether the taxpayers in this country are getting the proper accountability in the support they are forced to give the Ukraine by this administration. Just another politically-based tidbit to sway opinion and distract. ACCOUNTABILITY.


60 posted on 11/07/2023 2:36:16 PM PST by Gaffer
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