Ukraine: A Trillion Dollar Goldmine of Death

"After joining the European Union, Ukraine will have the right to receive €186 billion from the bloc's budget over seven years," reports the Financial Times.

A pride of lions feasting on a wildebeest is not a pleasant sight, nor is a black widow spider devouring its poisoned prey something enjoyable to watch. Ukraine is prey to money-grubbing psychopaths—those unspeakable avaricious sociopaths that relish quartering the land, ensuring that bloody profits continue to pour into their insatiable bank accounts all over the world—and they plan to continue their pillage ‘til the last Ukrainian as long as they are killing the Russians. Unfortunately for all of us, Ukraine is not their only prey; we all are.

The West’s demise chapter is also being written as we speak, not only by woke ideological demons in power that work diligently to enslave us all by systematically committing a mentalcide but also by the plunder around the Ukrainian battlefields, soaked in blood and littered by destroyed steel.

Abandoned Leopard 2A6, M2 Bradleys, and a BMR-2 mine-clearing tank during an attack in the Zaporizhzia Region. Replacing then would rack in even more $$$.

Some, like Simplicius, are clamoring about Ukraine being 'faced with a disastrous loss of financial support' in the West, but I would not be so sure about it. Baltimore CVS small-time looters are coming back in throngs, in Tampa and San Francisco alike, and will keep coming back as long as no one is punishing them for their crimes. Why would it be any different with big-time crooks? They’re already vigorously selling a new propaganda BS stating that "helping” Ukraine means “stopping” China in Taiwan or some such nonsense in order to prolong the war. And even if they’d stop the war, facing disastrous arm-exhibition failures in Ukraine, they could go on fleecing us by “rebuilding” the country they helped destroy.

In my in-depth “Ukraine Bloody War: The Great Plundering” essay from September 29, 2023, I examined insane amounts of money going—unaccounted for, immune from any accountability or responsibility—to Zelensky. Billions plundered by Wall Street and trillions “lost” by the Pentagon are a rounding error for the U.S. insane empire of debt, so if Ukraine has gotten $200 billion or so thus far, one can safely say that a billion here or a billion there means nothing for criminals in power.

But, frankly, what’s $200 billion among friends if we racked up over $33 trillion in debt so far, an amount that boggles the mind and would rise to $44 trillion in another four years of a drunken millionaire, billionaire, trillionaire’s madness binge?

How a country, empire or not, so fiscally irresponsible as the United States could think it can rule the world and dictate to every single country, be it a small dictatorship in Egypt or huge ones like Russia and China, how to behave is an example of hubris that would be studied for centuries, assuming it does not kill us all on its way down.

Time stamp of this madness is October 4, 2023 at 11:56 AM ET

Now ponder what’s coming next to Ukraine, one of prime beneficiaries of our generous fiscal madness. If we forget a small issue of the bloodiest war since the World War II ravaging the country—Ukraine’s accession to the EU would “entitle Kyiv to about €186bn or about $195.65 billion over seven years”:

• €96.5bn from the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy.

• €61bn in payments from the EU’s cohesion funds, which aim to improve infrastructure in poorer member states.

• €28.5bn difference from The Financial Times total estimate and the breakdown offered is, well, not accounted for.

So, if the war related “assistance” stops today, they would have gotten about $400.00 billion for the war and the EU accession. They’d get hundreds of billions more for the war, but let us freeze those numbers for now, for easier calculation.

And than, there’s more. There’s always more.

Ukraine could be a "beacon about the power of capitalism", says Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, and “after the Russian military’s invasion of Ukraine commenced in early 2022, the World Bank predicted it could take at least $411 billion to rebuild Ukraine and its economy after the war.” We’re getting very close to a trillion dollars in a process that American political analyst and anti-war activist Bill Dores called a triple-plundering of Americans.

“First we have our taxes - funds that should be spent on human needs - spent on weapons. Then there is the inflation caused by printing money for the Pentagon. And then there is the price of food, energy and everything else pushed still higher by the shortages caused by war and sanctions.”

Now take a look at the part of Europe that requires and will require such colossal amounts of money, a triple-plunder “as long as it takes,” the Ukraine War map by the Institute for the Study of War and AEI's Critical Threats Project.

Ukraine is a very big country. Russian “full-scale invasion” and “total war” are contained in only about 20% of their territory.

The Marshall Plan Comparison

The Marshall Plan, officially known as the European Recovery Program, provided financial assistance to a number of Western European countries in the aftermath of World War II. A screen-grab of this interesting interactive map shows you the Europe as it was ravaged by the war.

The Second World War, the European Theatre.

The following comparison is a bit biased and unfair, but it serves us to understand what’s going on. Here’s London during the WW II.

London during the WW II.

I always feel guilty when it seems like I am downplaying the tragedy of a country I visited twice and lived in for four months in 2017, Ukraine, a land where I have friends who suffer and whom I love dearly, but I am not letting my feelings stand in between me and the truth. What the Russians call “Special Military Operation” is a brutal war filled with pain and mass deaths, but it is still limited to the four now annexed parts of Ukraine: Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts. (Crimea was taken in 2014).

Take a look.

Most of Ukraine is not occupied. That’s not to say the Russians are not bombing a lot of it.

Having said that and showing the map above, I must state that, comparatively, Kiev is almost left intact. I took this photo from “Bombing Kyiv Into Submission? History Says It Won’t Work,” propaganda piece by The New York Times because Russia did strike Kiev several times, but a massive bombing, not even on a 1/1000th scale of the one London endured never happened.

Smoke over Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, on Monday after Russian missile strikes.Credit...Finbarr O'Reilly for The New York Times.

I hope I managed to convey a message—the enormity of the Ukrainian tragedy is a true horror, but in the bigger picture, the war theater represents only a small part of Europe and a negligible bit of the world. And yet, it’s been given disproportionate amounts of money. As I wrote earlier, in the years 2019–21, Russia allocated 3 to 3.6 trillion rubles to the military ($44.1 to $48.5 billion, based on annual average exchange rates), according to official reports.

If their budget—now poised to raise dramatically—was “only” $48.5 billion, that’s a fraction of the approximately $200 billion given to Ukraine. Why is Zelensky not riding onto the Red Square and not hanging Putin there if we gave him so much more than he needed to win? Perhaps most of that money was abused, misused, or embezzled. I have no idea, but this all screams to high heavens.

But they’re already getting ready to continue the plunder.

The Marshall Plan Comparison

Named after U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall, who proposed the plan in 1947, The Marshall Plan is widely regarded as a successful and beneficial program that played a significant role in Europe's post-war recovery and the prevention of further conflict. It had a lasting impact on the economic, political, and social landscape of Western Europe and remains an important symbol of international cooperation and assistance.

The program aimed to aid in the economic recovery and reconstruction of these war-ravaged nations. The countries that received assistance under the Marshall Plan included:

1. Austria

2. Belgium

3. Denmark

4. France

5. West Germany

6. Greece

7. Iceland

8. Ireland

9. Italy

10. Luxembourg

11. Netherlands

12. Norway

13. Portugal

14. Sweden

15. Switzerland

16. Turkey

17. United Kingdom

These European countries received financial aid and technical assistance to help them recover from the destruction caused by World War II and rebuild their economies. In terms of U.S. dollars, the Plan provided approximately $13 billion in aid to Western European countries from 1948 to 1952. This substantial financial assistance was instrumental in the economic recovery and reconstruction of war-torn Europe during the post-World War II period. The Marshall Plan’s equivalent was about $231.42 billion in 2022 dollars.

Now, think about it:

• $231.42 billion to, after the Word War II, rebuild Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, West Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom vs.

• $411.00 billion for Ukraine that is entitled for another

• $195.65 billion from the EU and all of that after it has received, thus far

• $200.00 or billion in the “war assistance.”

We’re talking about an estimate of $806.65 billion and counting (the U.S. will very soon give another $24 billion to Zelensky) in total for one country, vs. $231.42 billion for 17 countries. The former number goes to a country in a local war, while the latter goes to countries ravaged by the four-year agony called World War II.

Moreover, the combined population of these 17 countries was roughly around 340 million people at the end of World War II. Please note that these numbers are estimates but are enough for us to get a picture. The current population of Ukraine is 37,047,050 as of Tuesday, October 3, 2023 per Worldometer. However, after I've published this essay, I read Simplicius, who has shown a leaked census document showing Ukraine currently at 23 million. His other source confirming such an utterly bleak situation is the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev. I have no way of independently confirming those dismal demographic data, so below I still use Worldometer's number; I still think it's important to have these other numbers in mind.

Per capita, in this crude but illustrative estimate, Ukraine is set to be getting 917.75% more money than the people in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, West Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Kingdom put together, after it has gobbled up around $200 billion of our money while we have no clue where one single penny ended up being abused.

Perhaps lost in the memory hole? A corrupt pocket or two?

Wait, there’s more. There’s always more.

Don’t take my word for it. Transparency International, in its 2022 report on worldwide corruption, ranked Ukraine 122 out of 180 countries, with 180 representing the most corrupt. But, I guess, if Nazis are fine, all is fine for the Cabal of criminals in power.

The Demolition Phase

“Every institution and system in the United States is in need of a rebuild. Demolition first. Creative phase follows. Americans are insanely good at creativity,” wrote Scott Adams. Many agreed and I picked a few:

• “A complete overhaul. Removal. Reversion. Restoration.”

• “It is up to us to rebuild it all.”

• “Scorched swap policy is the watchword. Count me in!”

• “I like this perspective. Hopefully we are learning from these troubling times. I'm just sayin...”

• “I’ve been saying this, disruption is required! Thank you!!!”

• “It's nice to see a positive spin in our current situation. I'm with you, Scott!”

We must stop corrupt criminal psychopaths in power. I hope there’s enough energy and, frankly, anger left in the American people to do so. Otherwise…

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