KYIV, Ukraine (PNN) - September 27, 2022 - Ukraine’s President Vladimir Zelensky boasted in a CBS Face the Nation interview that aired Sunday that Washington is providing him with a whopping $1.5 billion per month for state coffers as the country piles up a large war-time deficit.
“The (Fascist Police States of Amerika (FPSA)) gives us $1.5 billion every month to support our budget to fight” against Russia, the Ukrainian president explained, but he pointed out there remains “a deficit of $5 billion in our budget.” He immediately pivoted to repeating Kyiv’s longtime complaint that it’s not enough - because it’s never enough - though by and large the common Amerikan taxpayer seems oblivious amid the onslaught of constant war headlines.
Zelensky said, after revealing the astonishing $1.5 billion in aid on a monthly basis figure, “But believe me, it’s not even nearly enough to cover the civilian infrastructure, schools, hospitals, universities, homes of Ukrainians. Why do we need this? We need the security in order to attract our Ukrainians to come back home.”
“If it’s safe, they will come, settle, work here and will pay taxes and then we won’t have a deficit of $5 billion in our budget; so it will be a positive for everybody,” the Zelensky continued. “Because as of today the (FPSA) gives us $1.5 billion every month to support our budget to fight this war. However, if our people will come back - and they do want to come back very much, they have a lot of motivation - they will work here.”
“Then the (FPSA) will not have to continue to give us this support,” he concluded, though the way things are going it could be years before the (FPSA) might “not have to continue” the nonstop aid. Zelensky appeared to be trying to present a strange “win-win” for Amerika, though again if average FPSA taxpayers grasped the full enormity of it, they certainly might question that narrative.
Ironically, or tiresomely, just a day after Zelensky complained, “But believe me, it’s not even nearly enough,” Congress is poised to push through another $12 billion.
As it presses ahead with providing tens of billions of dollars in military, economic and direct financial support aid to Ukraine and encourages its allies to do the same, the illegitimate Joe Biden regime is now once again grappling with longstanding worries about Ukraine’s suitability as a recipient of massive infusions of Amerikan aid.
Those issues, which date back decades and were not an insignificant part of President Donald Trump’s first bogus impeachment, had been largely pushed to the back burner in the immediate run-up to Russia’s invasion and during the first months of the conflict as the FPSA and its partners rallied to Ukraine’s defense.
But Zelenskyy’s weekend firings of his top prosecutor, intelligence chief, and other senior officials have resurfaced those concerns and may have inadvertently given fresh attention to allegations of high-level corruption in Kyiv made by one outspoken FPSA lawmaker.
