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| 33 billion dollars to Ukraine is a lot of tax payer money that could be spent on Americans . JUST think if or government spent all the money it sends overseas on it's OWN people , we would all have Universal Basic Income ! |
That money will disappear into a blackhole like all those billions sent to Afghanistan
President "Sleepy" Biden has just approved , and called on Congress to send Ukraine another whopping billions in "aide" . It is certainly true that the decision by the United States to break what appears to have been a promise to the Kremlin that NATO would not expand eastward contributed to Putin’s paranoid nationalism. The U.S. militarism, imperialism, and false narratives on the mainstream news has for the most part deceitfully try to drum up support for the " war spending " with the American people . Did anyone ask American taxpayers about Biden sending another $33 billion to prolong the war in Ukraine?(1)>>33 billion dollars to ramp up the war effort . The administration’s response to Moscow’s war on Ukraine has only made this worse. Intelligence officials recently told the Intercept that Russian president Vladimir Putin had only decided to invade at the last minute, suggesting that, as a group of former diplomats and experts had urged in January, the war could have been headed off by negotiating with Moscow over Ukraine’s status in NATO and other defense matters.For whatever reason, the administration declined to do this, and instead took a reactive approach, My heart is torn up by the insanity of what happened to Ukraine. Sorry for its people , but the war is now a full funded proxy war against Russia. Is this guy insane? We’re at the brink of a financial crisis and he’s so willing to worsen the issue. No. We got distracted by Biden potentially cancelling a trillion in school loans, a rich man buying twitter, and probably something else. To Biden, the aid of (2)>>Ukraine is more important than the financial stability of the USA. That said I would still say no to more funding, until we talk domestic projects which have stalled for no reason. We're not just the military of the world. We have people that live here you know.When Musk bought twitter, I saw a post saying, "44B could pay for free community college tuition for the whole US for 5 years" and was like damn that's a good point. Now I see that the government is about to drop $33B (putting this expenditure up to $47B) and am wondering why they can't put that same amount of money into investing in the people who live here? Wish Biden would fight for Americans like he apparently fights for Ukrainians. (3)>>The US government [ Biden -Pelosi axis ] don't give a fuck about the tax paying Americans . We are all being screwed by our elected somewhat government , its vary ridiculous that they can't put more effort in domestic spending to give Americans certain specific needs when passing any budget . $47B ($14B + $33B) and that's not even a full year. Most news channels are shocked by the $$ amt. It signals U.S. escalation + Russia also knows this is our proxy war.
Throwing American Money into the Fire!.
What happened to Ukraine's not in (4)>>NATO and we're going to negotiate peace? Coming global recession?? I want to know how much of that money is going to circle back into select politicians pockets? (5)>>They're SLOWLY SQUEEZING US FOR EVERY DIME for this insane proxy war.War is it's own business. There's no huge payout to helping struggling Americans, only to destroying other countries and then imposing our will upon them. This isn’t solely on the shoulders of America and the American tax payers. I do not see in the news even being questioned . OUR SO CALLED European partners shelling out money like America is. Hard for me to really care about European security when I live several thousand miles away. And the inflation was happening before this whole broke out, sure it may get worse, but it was already here. While I feel for the people of Ukraine, it’s hard to see money go out county when there’s millions of people here who need the help too. Student loans was something that affects me, but what about affordable housing, healthcare, education, or what about the homeless situation too. (6)>>The government has no issue sending money aboard, but when it comes to its own citizens we are left hanging and told there’s no money to help out. And speaking of inflation where is this money coming from? I would assume they would need to print the money that is going to be sent over. Aiding and abetting a potentially catastrophic — and I do mean catastrophic — confrontation between the world's two nuclear superpowers are lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Like the media they echo and vice versa, members of Congress, including highly touted progressives, can scarcely manage more than vague comments that they want diplomacy rather than war. War is it's own business. There's no huge payout to helping struggling Americans, only to destroying other countries and then imposing our will upon them. NOW it sounds like throwing money out there, without adequate tracking capacity, is really just going to end up benefiting the military-industrial complex.While there I don't know the figures rest of Europe is spending US spent so far USD 25 Billion for a worthless war instead of doing everything to avoid it. Sri Lanka a country with 22Million people is as good as bankrupt n needs USD 4 Billion to just keep head above water! Biden's 10-year plan of domestic stuff has been cancelled solely for corporations to dictate everything that happens. It's not right. (7)>>Democracy isn't meant to be a business cabal. As a spin on what those much funnier and more clever than me have said before: Russia is going to continue to find out why us Americans can’t afford universal healthcare. And, might I add, I’m so proud that the Biden administration is doing this. With an economic dip and historic inflation going on in the US (8)>>LOOMING FOOD SHORTAGES , this decision could very likely make him a one term president because it’s such an easy thing for Republicans to attack. But the cause is not worth it.I'd say it's equally possible that attacking the spending on military aid to Ukraine could also be political suicide, to be honest.
THE OUTCOME ? ??
In the other reality, Congress and the White House are almost effortlessly finding billions upon billions of dollars under the couch cushions to send weapons and other military assistance to Ukraine and finance a military buildup in Europe. (9)>>At SOME POINT , we should think if this WAR will last another 8 months , or more . It is frustrating enough that $46.6 billion, including humanitarian aid but not including Lend-Lease costs, is about to be spent dealing with the Ukraine situation at a time when Congress cannot see its way clear to spend approximately that on an annual basis to deal with a devastating and potentially irreversible change in global climate. Virtually every individual piece of the failed Build Back Better agenda—universal child care and pre-K, increased Affordable Care Act subsidies, elder care boosts, housing investments, and so on—is cheaper on an annual basis than the costs of this conflict.
Ukraine war is about extortion .
HERE IS ANOTHER thing that is down right "fishy" . I starting to "sense" that there is some kinda of scheme involved with this war. Since 2014 , our Deep State government has poured billions into Ukraine . (10)>>Ukraine , the news media, have created a stunningly misleading image of Ukraine. There has been a concerted effort to portray the country not only as a victim of brutal Russian aggression, but as a plucky and noble bulwark of freedom and democracy. The conventional narrative would have us believe that Ukraine is an Eastern European version of Denmark. NOT SO FAST . Zalenskyy's speech to Congress was such a give away what the plot is . His speech is Down right EXTORTION with the threat of World War 3. You'd think am CRAZY , but am getting the vibes that this war was somehow orchestrated . Perhaps Putin?? is really working for Zalenskyy ? You kind getting what am trying to put together . (11)>>AM NOT GOING FURTHER ON SPECULATION. It is entirely appropriate to sympathize with Ukrainians who are experiencing terrible suffering as a result of Vladimir Putin’s decision to launch a war. Whatever the level of provocations from the United States and its NATO allies, and Ukraine’s willingness to collaborate in those provocations, Russia’s response was over‐the‐top. It created a dangerous breach of the peace in Europe and a humanitarian catastrophe. However, one can condemn Putin’s actions and even cheer on Ukraine’s military resistance without fostering a false image of Ukraine’s political system. SO Connecting the dots here . NEWSWEEK published a article that Putin Testing 'Nuclear Blackmail' Tactic in Ukraine War: Ex-Russia Official. Let's go with the Newsweek article there , in VARY a similar manner Zalenskyy ALSO is using the same tactic using the nuclear scare to get support for this sham war that might drag America into a dangerous conflict with RUSSIA , but seriously is going to drain the US of weapons , possible wreck the US economy as long as this war goes on till no end .
Ukraine , US Military Industrial Complex bleeding US Weapons .
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| SURE signs of US Meddling . Speaker of the House , Pelosi visited Ukraine promising more weapons and Billions what a Con to escalate a war . |
Why this War Must END a Epilogue .
Beside Huge financial loss to the United States in the coming months . (13)>>There really is a serious possibility of nuclear war . Pope Francis said that NATO “barking” at Russia’s door may have led to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine — and said he has offered to meet the Russian president in Moscow. In an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, Francis reflected on Russia’s lethal aggression toward its neighbor and said while he might not go as far as saying NATO’s presence in nearby countries “provoked” Moscow, it “perhaps facilitated” the invasion. REALITY the Unite States is guilty to have instigated this war from the start . This war began way back in 2014 with a coup that was orchestrated by US President Obama that replaced a pro- Russian government with a puppet regime that was pro NATO and anti Russian . Mr Putin was speaking in his first telephone talks in more than a month with French President Emmanuel Macron. The French leader again called for a ceasefire and for talks to end the war brought on by Russia's invasion.Calling for a stop to arms supplies, Mr Putin accused Ukrainian forces of committing war crimes by bombarding towns in eastern Ukraine where Moscow-backed separatists control large areas, according to a Kremlin statement. (14)>>ANY HOPE for this war to end , now rests with the hands of God . In the interview, Francis ruled out going to Kyiv for now: “First I have to go to Moscow, first I have to meet Putin.”In reality, the dialogue between the president and the Pope promises to be both intense and interesting, "an exchange of philosophical and political views on the world between the leader of Russia and the head of Catholic Christianity". Even in Putin's recent interview with the Financial Times, reprinted by global press , the Russian president had defended the Catholic Church, "attacked by liberal ideologies", proposing the aid of "state" Christianity in Russia. As Avdeev argues, "the Vatican is interested in stability and security in all regions of the world, where the Catholic faithful live", and interests match those of Russia, starting with Syria and Venezuela.Regarding the thorny problem of Ukraine, the ambassador recalls that "the Vatican supports the Minsk agreements, distancing itself from any interference in the life of Orthodox communities". And this despite the Greek-Catholic uniates who, according to Avdeev, often "contradict the appeals of the Vatican to avoid the politicization of the faith and the ideologization of the flock of the faithful".
NOTES AND COMMENTS : (1)>>33 billion dollars to ramp up the war effort . The package has about $20 billion in defense spending for Ukraine and U.S. allies in the region and $8.5 billion to keep Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government providing services and paying salaries. There’s $3 billion in global food and humanitarian programs, including money to help Ukrainian refugees who’ve fled to the U.S. and to prod American farmers to grow wheat and other crops to replace the vast amounts of food Ukraine normally produces.The package, which administration officials estimated would last five months, is more than twice the size of the initial $13.6 billion aid measure that Congress enacted early last month and now is almost drained. With the bloody war dragging into its third month, the measure was designed to signal to Russian President Vladimir Putin that U.S. weaponry and other streams of assistance are not going away.(2)>>Ukraine is more important than the financial stability of the USA. The Biden administration’s wild spending should remind Republicans, who became joyous big spenders during the Trump years, of the importance of budgetary sobriety. The national debt recently passed $30 trillion. Its SEEMS WE CAN SPEND MORE ON WAR THAN PEACE !. So here are so far the costs of money to Ukraine , the military budget . While we can’t just get rid of our military budget, we could streamline our military and realistically cut the budget 35-45%. Of course this could be said for the government as a whole. Problem is when you start trimming the fat, all the politicians will start screaming because they’re the ones with their hands in the cookie jar.So, I’m not a military budget genius however, it has been studied by those far smarter than me and they tend to agree that: you could cut $100 billion a year alone in just admin cost by eliminating bloat, mismanagement, and redundancy. By removing bureaucracy you can save billions annually for example the US Army said it did not need anymore tanks yet the politicians kept producing so as not to close the plant in OHIO so some politician wouldn’t lose an election. Why not retool the plant and produce something we need? Nuclear weapons is another area where cuts could happen especially in the area of ICBM’s. Weapons development is another area of excessive waste. We’ve spent $30 billion to redesign the Brandy over the last 20yeqrs and have yet to do so. What about the Comanche helicopter program, zumwalt destroyer, F-35 program, Crusader program, FCS program, GCV program etc… All spent billions and billions on tech that didn’t deliver. So by streamlining the acquisition approval process you would save money. Now to bases do we really need as many as we have and why do we cut their operation budget but keep increasing the HQ budget? Then there is the whole VA system that is a bureaucratic nightmare. (3)>>The US government [ Biden -Pelosi axis ] don't give a fuck about the tax paying Americans . Democrats, who narrowly control Congress, and Republicans disagree over whether to combine the Ukraine funding with billions of dollars for COVID-19 relief that Biden requested in March.I think a lot. $125bn in bloated bureaucracy at the pentagon. Billions spent on failed weapons programs & buying obsolete or faulty equipment/weaponry, some created & manufactured in the USA. Then there are the inflated costs that the US contractors are charging the US military. The US military is almost like a jobs program. SO this war is great for the military , but not for the average tax paying Americans . Biden's funding request includes over $20 billion for weapons, ammunition and other military assistance, as well as $8.5 billion in direct economic assistance to the Ukrainian government and $3 billion in humanitarian aid.In additon to lots of bombs and guns, Biden said this about the $33 billion he's sending to Ukraine: "It's going to allow pensions and social support to be paid to the Ukranian people, so they have something in their pocket". But if American workers' pockets are empty, fvck 'em. (4)>>NATO and we're going to negotiate peace?But before the war started, Putin presented the West with a list of demands including, most notably, a halt to NATO enlargement.America's arms-and-sanctions approach may sound convincing in the echo chamber of US public opinion, but it doesn't really work on the global stage. It enjoys little support outside of the United States and Europe, and eventually may face a political backlash inside the US and Europe as well.In the early days of the war, the talks made little apparent progress. Ukraine appeared to be demanding an immediate ceasefire, and Russian withdrawal of troops.The prospect of a quick peace deal between Ukraine and Russia remains unlikely. Perhaps the best case short term is that both sides broker a ceasefire that includes a framework for an agreement, and then work the details out over time. (5)>>They're SLOWLY SQUEEZING US FOR EVERY DIME for this insane proxy war. Every war since 9/11 has taken the American tax payer to the cleaners , endless wars , occupying , regime change in two decades nearly 10 trillion dollars were burnt fighting the war on terror .Costs of War estimates show that Americans are far from done paying the bill on the war on terror, which continues across multiple continents. Nearly 20 years after the United States’ invasion of Afghanistan, the cost of its global war on terror stands at $8 trillion and 900,000 deaths, according to a new report from the Costs of War project at Brown University. NOW the War in Ukraine is just another continuation of the same war , a proxy war against Russia another 33 billion $$$. WE should ponder why can't the US gov spend 33 billion for every American ? It took last year during the Covid pandemic months to pass a stimulus for a mere 600$ while forking 25 billion to Pakistan . (6)>>The government has no issue sending money aboard, but when it comes to its own citizens we are left hanging and told there’s no money to help out. The public skepticism around the United States “sending them money,” however, will almost certainly remain, especially as the U.S. economy continues to be battered by inflation . This is how I feel as well. I'm very critical of the military industrial complex- but I'll let it slide for stuff like this. Our tax dollars couldn't be spent on a better cause to improve the quality of life for Americans .The war in Afghanistan started in 2001 and continues to this day. The Iraq War, begun in 2003, still involves between 5,000 and 9,000 American troops. Those conflicts have cost a combined $2 trillion, or by some estimates more than $5 trillion, which would make them the most expensive wars in American history, except for possibly World War II. What explains the American tolerance for such open-ended, seemingly never-ending wars?For comparison, the average U.S. taxpayer will have paid more than $4,100 for diplomacy since 9/11 through fiscal 2018, according to data compiled for Defense One by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. In 2017, that totals nearly $285 per taxpayer, just $4 less than cost per taxpayer for the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.(7)>>Democracy isn't meant to be a business cabal. Democracy means the rule of the people, but Americans do not fully agree about who belongs to the people. Although there are areas of agreement across partisan and ideological lines, some in our nation hold that to be “truly” American, you must believe in God, identify as Christian, and be born in the United States. When we Americans talk about capitalism, it’s usually as an economic system that complements the political system of democracy. Competing capitalists keep the state from accumulating too much power, and the elected government puts a regulatory check on business interests. At least that’s how it’s supposed to work. In practice, it goes a little differently. Democracy isn’t supposed to be a vehicle for wealthy people to hedge their bets, but the open secret is that capitalism is more than just an economic regime. It’s a total social system, and it’s ruled by a small class of people, not elected representatives as such. The practices that we think of as making up democracy — like voting, volunteerings, protesting, writing op-eds — are just part of what determines the structure of American social reality, and not a very big part when it comes down to it. Between “money is power” and “all power to the people,” we know which one describes life in the United States. (8)>>LOOMING FOOD SHORTAGES . Joe Biden spilled the beans of the likely prospect of food shortages coming . MAYBE IN THE FALL . I base this that the war in Ukraine will still be going on by this Fall. America has always been a strange place with food - we produce SO much, and we waste SO much, but even here there have been people struggling with getting enough food due to income inequality. Rising prices are going to highlight that income gap even more. I think if we can focus on the food issue we can do more here - as we do have so much food in the USA. The US is not prepared for any kind of DISASTER. Nice of the government to publicly acknowledge what farmers and ranchers have been discussing for months now. Long before the war all the countries we import over eighty five percent of our fertilizer and chemical feedstock from were severely limiting or banning exports. Not to mention we have very few production plants here and a few burned down in recent months.This is a nightmare. In America we may have access to food but they will become more and more expensive. NOT likely that we may see empty shelves , but perhaps. The Indicator had a recent episode about this- basically, the problems are: Recent past: Droughts in major coffee-producing regions that supply the US Current Events: Labor shortages, high transportation prices. Believe this? It’s been obvious for months. Look at the charts of commodities they have been going up for months. The world went insane in 2020-21 and printed fiat to extreme levels, but they can’t print commodities. Economics 101, more currency and same supply equates to mass price rises. Look at what fertiliser prices have done, colossal imperative to planting and the input to so many other foods. Food shortages…. you better be hoarding. (9)>>At SOME POINT , we should think if this WAR will last another 8 months , or more . It MIGHT LAST A YEAR UNLESS IT GOES NUKE . But at the meantime ... Ukraine burns through in a single day the same amount of weaponry it receives in a week, according to a senior Polish official, and Kyiv's eastern neighbours are concerned with keeping up with demand. YES !!! the demand that the US will fork up trillions in the next few months of the insanity of this stupid war . MEANWHILE President Joe Biden has in recent weeks ordered more US troops to NATO's eastern flank to reassure edgy allies and pledged to protect the bloc's territory if Russian forces stray over more borders. Until Russia fails. It could be a week, it could be a month, it could be years.Ukraine is NOT in a position to defeat Russia. They are doing well locally but, Ukraine by itself, would be unable to enter Russian territory and force capitulation. Realistically, this will be a protracted war. A year at the shortest 5 years at the longest. With insurgent operations happening in Russia on a regular basis starting within the next 60-90 days. (10)>>Ukraine , the news media, have created a stunningly misleading image of Ukraine. Ukraine’s track record of protecting democracy and civil liberties is not much better than its performance on corruption. In Freedom House’s 2022 report, Ukraine is listed in the “partly free” category, with a score of 61 out of a possible 100. Other countries in that category include such bastions of liberal democracy as Rodrigo Duterte’s Philippines (55), Serbia (62), Hungary (59), and Singapore (47). Interestingly, Hungary—which has been a target of vitriolic criticism among progressives in the West because of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s conservative social policy—ranks eight points higher than Ukraine, which is the recipient of uncritical praise from the same Western ideological factions.Even before the war erupted, there were ugly examples of authoritarianism in Ukraine’s political governance.(11)>>AM NOT GOING FURTHER ON SPECULATION. Looking at the farce they are calling "invasion", it might be that they are just incompetent. Seriously, how do you mess this so badly? How? Well looking how this war started at the center of this is the US , its not a war between Ukraine and Russia , its a war between the US and Russia with Ukraine at the center . CONSPIRACY YES? So what I suspect this , the US is sending money and weapons to Ukraine knowing that possibility of interception by the Russians . American money has in Ukraine has been laundering about in the Russian oligarchs hands for awhile via the Zalenskyy regime. [ see https://observer.com/2016/05/the-u-s-is-missing-millions-in-ukraine/ ] besides American Money . Large amounts of weapons have mysteriously vanished . Western countries, including the US, have in recent weeks dispatched many different types of sophisticated weapons to Ukraine, worth millions of dollars, which has provoked Russia to up the ante. TOP US security officials were quoted as saying by CNN ,that the US intelligence agencies had “almost zero” ability to follow the consignments to their final destination, referring to it as "the largest recent supply to a partner country in a conflict."(12)>>CURIOUSLY , Biden mentioned that it will CREATE FINE JOBS. Biden's remarks at Lockheed Martin pretty much mach up with the notes above . AS long as this war goes on , yes it will create jobs for weapons productions . Virtually all the guns, tanks, jets, helicopters and anti-missile defense systems heading eastward in the coming weeks will be purchased from private manufacturers like Raytheon Technologies, Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Oshkosh Defense LLC. As will the tools, uniforms and logistical services necessary to amass and reorient U.S. troops. Across the country, the war-based economy can be seen in an industry which includes everything from Homeland Security educational degrees to counter-terrorism consultants to private-run preferred traveler program for airport security gates. Recently, the “black budget” of secret intelligence programs alone was estimated at $52.6bn for 2013.The US wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria have cost American taxpayers $6.4 trillion since they began in 2001, according to the report by the Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs at Brown University published in November 2019. Taxpayers in the US were exploited financially by the government's immense military expenses. From 2001 to 2021, the US annual defense budget has kept rocketing. According to the latest study by the Cost of War Project of Brown University, the war in Afghanistan has cost $2.3 trillion. That is an expense of $300 million per day for 20 years. (13)>>There really is a serious possibility of nuclear war . This is WHY AM SO AGAINST the WAR , support of any kind to Ukraine by sending weapons in order to prolong a war that could kill millions . America should have been a standard for peace , not escalation. "Does Joe Biden intend to take the US into a direct war with Russia? ..because of a deep economic recession ,or a bigger distraction ..Those questions need to be asked and answered quickly, because the White House is about to flip from a “proxy war” into an actual hot war"CTH. (14)>>ANY HOPE for this war to end , now rests with the hands of God . The Christian media mogul returned to “The 700 Club” a few months after he retired from the show he hosted for 55 years on the Christian Broadcasting Network. In his return, Robertson claimed that Putin was simply following God’s wishes when Russia invaded Ukraine — to fulfill a biblical prophecy. “I think you can say, well, Putin’s out of his mind. Yes, maybe so,” said Robertson, 91. “But at the same time, he’s being compelled by God. He went into the Ukraine, but that wasn’t his goal. His goal was to move against Israel, ultimately.”Pope Francis is renewing calls for an end to the war in Ukraine, emphasizing the impact on children.In a tweet on Saturday he wrote: "Never war! Think first about the children, about those who are deprived of the hope for a dignified life: dead or wounded children, orphans, children who play with the remnants of war."Francis added: "In the name of God, stop!"
