Ukraine Cannot Pay Govt in 2024 Without Billions from the West

Armstrong Economics ^ | 2 Jan 24 | Martin Armstrong

[delta7]

Most do not realize that the West has been funding Ukraine’s entire government. Biden and other world leaders have promised Zelensky that they would fund the salaries and pensions for all Ukrainian politicians and government workers. Yuliia Svyrydenko, First Deputy Prime Minister, issued a warning that Ukraine will be unable to pay MILLIONS of government employees if the West does not resume payments.

The figures are correct. The West has the salaries of 500,000 Ukrainian civil servants on its payroll, along with 1.4 million teachers. The highest priced item is the 10 MILLION pensioners living completely off of foreign aid. Svyrydenko demands at least $37 billion to fund Ukraine’s government into 2024.

Congress blocked Joe Biden’s most recent attempt to send Ukraine over $60 billion. In return, Biden threatened to send American troops to the frontlines to die. The European Union, and the unelected officials at the top, attempted to send Ukraine an additional €50 billion but Hungary vetoed that support package. The EU is now looking for a loophole to send €20 billion to Ukraine without Hungary’s approval since the EU is not a union.

How can you effectively sell this idea to Europeans and North Americans amid the current cost of living crisis? The majority now realize that Ukraine will never stop begging for money. No amount will fuel the insatiable appetite of the most corrupt government in Europe. The funding mentioned is only for Ukraine’s government employees and does not include spending on the military, infrastructure, humanitarian aid, etc. Don’t forget we are also funding a war in the Middle East now too. Europe and North America cannot fund their own pension programs, and we will soon see a major pension crisis when the Baby Boomer generation leaves the workforce.

When will the people draw the line? This is what happens when you have taxation without any representation.

[Zhang Fei]

[The Louis XVI helped us not out any noble sentiment, but to weaken British Empire. The French people were not amused at all the treasure spent on us (and debt incurred) while they went hungry. So they had a revolution of their own, and Louis lost his head for his trouble. Oh snap.

The Biden Administration is hardly sending our tax dollars to Ukraine out of any noble sentiment, but because these neocons believe this war weakens Russia. We Americans are not all of us amused.

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. But Biden will keep his head, if not his job. We’re just not into head chopping here. So messy and unhygienic.]

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The case for backing Ukraine against Russia is equally realist. Russia is a powerful country that needs to be discouraged from expanding. This would be true if Ukraine were Nazi and Russia were communist or vice versa. This is not about convoluted ideologies that rulers use to justify their personal authority, but the eternal truth that powerful and hostile countries need to be stopped from expanding, because these ambitions increase with success, and each addition makes them stronger and more difficult to defeat. Far cheaper to fund Ukraine with less than 1% of the economy than have to spend 40% per year that we did fighting WW2, against the reconstituted Soviet empire when it moves West.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Zhang Fei!

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4207333/posts?page=80#80

[delta7]

Send us some AA missiles, eh….
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They have, but Kiev just got clobbered again, hard, by Vlads Kinzals. Of course the Ukies said they shot them all down, but geo located footage shows they hit, hard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0Jx8LHZymI

Some real time footage of the Kinzals on target …..Ukies, liar, liar, no one believe you anymore.

[Zhang Fei]

[Thanks Zhang Fei!

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4207333/posts?page=80#80]

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Very welcome.

[delta7]

…in addition, good video of two more Leopards getting clobbered….mark 12:25….that should about wrap up in failure the western welfare wonder weapons….

[bimboeruption]

Just wait until the Dancing Queen gets his greasy, little hands on those F-16s.

He really gonna show Putin then!

Any day now!

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[Berlin_Freeper]

Caption is a quote from the post I replied to.
Meaning is clear:
When the shoe fits wear it.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Thanks for posting a meme that shows what corruption looks like. Meanwhile Ukraine is still defending their country from Putin for almost two years.

Do you create stupid memes or are good at finding them?

[bimboeruption]

>Caption is a quote from the post I replied to.
Meaning is clear:
When the shoe fits wear it.<

Why the photo of Hanoi Jane?

[bimboeruption]

>Thanks for posting a meme that shows what corruption looks like. Meanwhile Ukraine is still defending their country from Putin for almost two years.

Do you create stupid memes or are good at finding them?<

Yep, thanks to other people’s money and weapons. It’ll be over soon. The neocons have moved on to more lucrative pastures.

Thanks for noticing the memes. As they say, stupidity is in the eye of the beholder.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Because it fits.
I don’t get your ignorance about a pic I posted to a Putin Stooge.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Yep, thanks to other people’s money and weapons. It’ll be over soon. The neocons have moved on to more lucrative pastures.
Thanks for noticing the memes. As they say, stupidity is in the eye of the beholder.

Are you a bad AI?
I compared Afghanistan corruption, which quickly caused the collapse of the corrupt government there. To brave Ukrainians who are defending their country for years.

Could you switch to a more intelligent AI that doesn't reply like an idiot wasting my time. Thanks.

[bimboeruption]

>Because it fits.
I don’t get your ignorance about a pic I posted to a Putin Stooge.<

How does it fit?

You post a pic of a traitor who is loathed by Vietnam Vets and can’t tell me how it relates to what’s being discussed.

Are you a US Military Veteran?

[Berlin_Freeper]

I told you three times now. It fits Putin Stooges. But let me see if I can help your befuddlement:
Unlike Putin Stooges I LOVE AMERICA and it is IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME to side with the KGB AGENT PUTIN in a Hot War.
Boy imagine that...

[bimboeruption]

>I told you three times now. It fits Putin Stooges. But let me see if I can help your befuddlement:
Unlike Putin Stooges I LOVE AMERICA and it is IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME to side with the KGB AGENT PUTIN in a Hot War.
Boy imagine that...<

So you’re comparing Hanoi Jane, a traitor, to Americans who don’t side with Zelensky?

You didn’t answer my other question either: Are you a US Military Veteran?

[House Atreides]

“WE will print more $ to give them.”
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Not $, print more ₴ (the currency symbol for the Ukrainian currency, the hryvnia). The Ukrainians can print as many as they want to pay their people. Just no more American taxpayer money goes to them).

[Berlin_Freeper]

So you’re comparing Hanoi Jane, a traitor, to Americans who don’t side with Zelensky?

Oh you know the word traitor.
Your ZDS is showing how simple you are.
I support Ukraine, defending their country against the invading Terror State.

[bimboeruption]

>”So you’re comparing Hanoi Jane, a traitor, to Americans who don’t side with Zelensky?”

Oh you know the word traitor.
Your ZDS is showing how simple you are.
I support Ukraine, defending their country against the invading Terror State.<

Again, you’re saying Americans who don’t side with Zelensky are traitors, just like Jane Fonda?

And this is the third time I’ve asked you if you are a US Military Veteran.

I’d say the answer is “no” judging from your lack of response.

If you aren’t a US Military Veteran and you have the audacity and the simpleness of mind to compare an anti-American douche bag like Jane Fonda to Americans, many of whom are Veterans, because they disagree with your position on Ukraine, you should be ashamed of yourself.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Again, you’re saying Americans who don’t side with Zelensky are traitors, just like Jane Fonda?

I explained about when the shoe fits many times. I even rubbed in your face the stupid ZDS you suffer so badly from. The issue is Putin invading Ukraine not Zelensky who could be replaced and I would still be supporting Ukraine defending their country. It's like you want to proof how simple you are with your crazy ZDS. Put some ice on that.

And this is the third time I’ve asked you if you are a US Military Veteran.

It doesn't matter. Plus why would I want to post personal information to a deranged Troll:

Get a grip mommy. Have another bottle of Communion wine.
35 posted on 1/3/2024, 5:59:28 AM by bimboeruption

Speaking of stupid and crazy:

I’d say the answer is “no” judging from your lack of response.
If you aren’t a US Military Veteran and you have the audacity and the simpleness of mind to compare an anti-American douche bag like Jane Fonda to Americans, many of whom are Veterans, because they disagree with your position on Ukraine, you should be ashamed of yourself.

So you are saying that if I were a US Military Veteran that would be proper. LoL!
The Moscow Jane picture fits the putinstoogeerruption perfectly.
That's why you are so triggered.
Too bad for you, being a treacherous Putin Stooge should suck...
putinstoogeeruption BTW why do you are America so much that you side with the former KGB Agent Putin and his Terror Invasion of Ukraine?

[mabarker1]

More pedojoe screw America !!!