Comments on: Europe Must Lead Ukraine’s Reconstruction https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2023/08/09/europe-must-lead-ukraines-reconstruction/ Truth Exists: Lies Are Made Up Wed, 09 Aug 2023 20:52:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: penny2 https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2023/08/09/europe-must-lead-ukraines-reconstruction/#comment-2925 Wed, 09 Aug 2023 20:52:08 +0000 https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/?p=4796#comment-2925 In reply to Mark Finnegan.

The entirety of Ukraine is so pitiful. So easily preventable. And the US shows it’s arrogance yet again- I mean that piece was published in a serious forum
Today Zelensky says Russia’s going to have no more ships if they keep shooting.. Oh, really? Zelensky, Ukraine has lost 400,000 citizens in the fight- dead, unknown wounded, unknown displaced and this is what the idiots states?!

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/zelenskyy-warned-russia-may-left-111411454.html

“”We don’t have as many weapons, but if they continue to shoot, they may be left without vessels by the end of the war,” Zelenskyy told Argentina’s La Nacion

]]> By: Mark Finnegan https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2023/08/09/europe-must-lead-ukraines-reconstruction/#comment-2924 Wed, 09 Aug 2023 18:09:39 +0000 https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/?p=4796#comment-2924 Hi Penny,
Thanks for the linked article, I would never have seen it had you not chosen to inject some absurd humour into my day. Your cryptic analysis was spot on ! “We break’em you fix’em”. (ha)
It is telling that the author, apparently some forward thinking Harvard geo-political savant, neglected to mention that world leading US defense expenditures are largely wasted on more than 800 lonely and vulnerable foreign bases from which neo-colonial power can be exerted on largely unwilling host nations. That is the portion of the expenditure not wasted on internal graft, fraud and payoffs. And this for a stock pile of over priced and over hyped hardware that has largely proven to be remarkably combustible when tested in the real world conditions of the current conflict.
Russia will ‘foot the bill’ when it comes to reconstruction of the Donbass, Lugansk and Crimea where the most of the destruction occurred. They are part of Russia now and will remain that way. The cost will be onerous but will at least serve as a massive stimulus to the local economy.
As for what remains of western Ukraine it will limp forward as what it is a failed corrupt rump narco-state. It will receive minimal EU or US ‘humanitarian’ reconstruction assistance and most of that will disappear into the pockets of western and surviving Ukrainian oligarchs. The pitiful exodus of the Ukrainian people will continue much to the discomfort of the receiving nations.

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