03-01-2025, 09:16 AM
This post was last modified 03-01-2025, 09:17 AM by quintessentone. Edited 1 time in total. 
(03-01-2025, 09:11 AM)Oldcarpy2 Wrote: About Zelensky "losing billions" and refusing to account:
https://www.csis.org/analysis/where-miss...id-ukraine
"On February 2, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said he had only received $75 billion of the $175 billion the United States had spent on Ukraine. The cry went up, what happened to the other $100 billion? Was it lost or stolen? The answer is no. Only part of the aid goes through Ukrainian control. A large part pays for activities as a result of the war but not to Ukraine directly. These include the United States training of Ukrainian forces, global humanitarian assistance, additional costs of U.S. surge forces in Europe, and intelligence support for both NATO and Ukraine.
As CSIS has reported before, “aid to Ukraine” is a misnomer because 90 percent of military aid is spent in the United States. Of aid overall, 60 percent is spent in the United States, about 25 percent is spent in Ukraine, and the final 15 percent is spent globally."
And:
"General Keith Kellogg, the Trump administration’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, denied these interpretations. He noted that “we have a pretty good accounting of where it is going” and that most appropriated funds are spent in the United States."
Zelensky explained the monetary breakdown on Fox News yesterday. In total expenditures from the U.S. is around $140 Billion, so where does Trump come up with $500 Billion. It's robbery, plain and simple on Trump's side.
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