Some of Our Leaders Are Putting Other Countries First
Some of our leaders seem to care more about other countries, e.g., Ukraine and Israel, than they do about our own.
Once again, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has come to Washington, begging for even more money, this time some $8 billion dollars.
The U.S. Congress has already approved $175 billion for Ukraine in the last 2½ years. Added to over $52 billion from the European Union and $43 billion from the World Bank (17.5% of which comes from U.S. taxpayers), Ukraine has had more money to fight this war than Russia has.
The Kiel Institute said in mid-January Ukraine had at that point received from all sources what it described as a “staggering” $278 billion.
Ukraine’s total GDP in 2022 was only $160.5 billion. That whole country could have been rebuilt in a beautiful way with all the money it has spent on this war.
Now, much of Ukraine has been shelled and bombed to smithereens all because many leaders from Britain and the U.S. urged Ukraine not to go through with a peace agreement in the spring of 2022.
That agreement would have saved thousands of lives on both sides and hundreds of billions of dollars.
Four big U.S. defense contractors threw a lavish party at the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington in December 2022 in celebration of all the money they would be receiving as long as all the members of Congress (to whom they contribute) could keep this war going.
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