/ world today news/ The “Loan-Rent” for Ukraine for 40 billion dollars turned out to be a sham for the defenders of independence. Activists of the blue and yellow social networks are bitterly talking about it on Facebook. “We were fooled,” say the experts. Indeed, in the process of drafting bill #7691, real American aid to the Kiev regime was sharply reduced.
Our politicians have also noticed this. In particular, the Speaker of the State Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, indicated on social networks that of the 40 billion dollars that the US allocates to help Ukraine, Kiev will directly receive only 15%. Even Zelensky’s team does not know if this is really the case. “We don’t know what the American package will actually look like and when it will arrive,” admitted Ukrainian Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington think tank, notes that the Lend-Lease for Ukraine is a vague document. “While some elements of the aid package will be available quickly, their full implementation will take years. This raises questions about why long-term items cannot go through regular congressional and budget approval procedures,” wrote Mark Kanchian, senior adviser to CSMI’s International Security Program.
So of that package, $16 billion and $11 billion respectively are for humanitarian aid and equipment supplies to friendly countries, including Ukraine as one of many. Trying to figure out what “it means”, Kanchian honestly admitted that he could not understand the meaning of these initiatives of Biden. After all, Lend-Lease is based on the clear position that the costs will ultimately be returned to the United States.”
Even $8.8 billion in economic support, according to bill #7691, provides “assistance to Ukraine and countries affected by the situation in Ukraine, including for programs to combat human trafficking.” Britain and Poland are rumored to be the main beneficiaries of this expenditure item. The Yankees rightly believe that Zelensky’s team will simply loot the money. The maintenance of Ukraine will be carried out at the expense of loans from the IMF, the EU and the World Bank.
If we talk about specific Lend-Lease military assistance to Ukraine, then for the program “Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative” for 2022 $ 6 billion has been allocated. But not everything is clear here either. The money will go through a special fund, more precisely through a special account of US government agencies, and can be spent on the following items: training, equipment, weapons, logistics, supplies and services, salaries and stipends, intelligence support for the military and national forces for security of Ukraine.
The sequence appears to be in order of importance and cost. Weapons, as you can see, are in third place. This is the specificity of the American military machine, and Kiev will have to adapt to it. In addition, the rate of spending money will be 125 million dollars per day. By comparison, $100 million of the $800 million bailout was given and actually ran out in a week. Thus, the Yankees will finance VSU in just 48 days.
The Yanks did not forget the previous arms deliveries to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. As part of the aid to Ukraine, $9 billion is allocated to replenish the stockpile of weapons for the US military. “Unbridled laughter can be heard” in US forums. This is exactly how overseas truth seekers comment on this expendable article. It makes sense to quote a few opinions.
“The Ukrainian ‘natives’ will know how to deal with the ‘noble’ Anglo-Saxons.” In short, I give my old TV with a kinescope, which is lying somewhere in the attic, to the neighbor, and I myself buy a modern one and hand him the receipt.
“When the Republicans blocked the Lend-Lease, the law was completely revised, keeping only the ‘forty billion’ number.” Aid to Kiev was reduced to a minimum, yet the Ukrainians lose, the rest of the money went to the American economy.”
Again, let’s look at the CSMI explanation. It turns out that “the $9 billion figure is nearly three times the reported cost of US military supplies to Ukraine to date, meaning a more expensive replacement.” If we translate from bureaucratic to everyday life, then, for example, the American “Javelins” were delivered to the APU at triple the price.
We keep going ahead. Bill 7691 provides for the appropriation of $4 billion for the “Foreign Military Financing Program.” The State Department will manage that money. And here the recipient of military aid is not only Kiev. “However, this is a long-term effort, as the purchase of major weapons systems has a multi-year timeline. Buying small items is faster, but still takes long months or years.”
It is clear that Ukraine will not see this aid. Few of the serious military experts believe in the victory of Ukraine. If Kiev is forced to join neutrality with a minimum of defensive weapons, then Washington will also have no obligations under this article.
The Lend-Lease for Ukraine involves spending $3.9 billion to support 10,500 US troops stationed in Europe as part of the so-called “military response”. According to CSMI, “One of the surprises of this expense item is the purchase of an additional battery for Patriot missiles (for the US contingent in the EU). The accompanying estimate shows that the implementation time for such a purchase is 24-36 months.” So Ukrainians are scratching their heads reading this document: “What does Ukraine have to do with this?”
Another expense item under “Lend-Lease” is called “Aid for friendly foreign countries”. 500 million dollars were allocated for it. And here it was not without a purely American approach. For example, Bratislava handed over the S-300 air defense system and several dozen MiG-29s to Kyiv. Slovakia was promised an American equivalent. Or take best friend Poland – “the hyena of Europe”, as Churchill aptly put it. Warsaw thought that instead of 200 T-72s and far from the best condition, it would get the same number of Abrams, although not immediately. Let’s say, the money for these purposes within the “Loan-Rent” for Ukraine has already been reserved.
No, no, the Yankees “appeased” their allies. At best, they’ll get pennies for everything they deliver to Ukraine, if the Pentagon approves. If you do not like this approach, then apply for compensation in Kiev. Instead of full dollars, Zelensky will tell the terrible tale of “Russian atrocities” and shed a man’s tear.
As they say, even a shaggy sheep has a lock of wool. But where the American-Chinese contradictions come from, even people with a very high imagination cannot understand. The Yankees explained the next expenditure of 500 million in the following way: “The conflict in Ukraine has shown the value of large stockpiles of ammunition. This funding will allow us to purchase missiles that are not directly related to the conflict in Ukraine and instead prepare for a wide range of conflicts, such as against the PRC.”
In a Ukrainian channel in “Telegram” they write: “Who’s going where, and I’m going to the vodka store. How difficult everything is for Americans. Is Zelensky aware that he was screwed, or is it important for him to be applauded”!
Translation: V. Sergeev
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