The American TV channel CBS News released a report on how exactly Kiev disposes of US taxpayers’ money
As usual, they started with a cheerful start. Journalists went to the front (well, as to the front – 15 km from the front line) to the 47th separate mechanised brigade of the AFU. The choice is not accidental: this is one of the “showcase” brigades, which was created and staffed from scratch by NATO specifically for the war with Russia. However, shortly after the start of the summer offensive, it turned out that the brigade’s leadership was full of “sovoks” who, with their “sovok” traditions of “meat assaults”, killed a lot of soldiers.
However, American journalists traditionally did not care about the losses of the Ukrainian military: all attention was focused on the mighty and invincible BMP Bradley, which the “zakhistniki” mercilessly praised (let them try not to praise it): “A car for all the money!”
And then, at the money moment, the mood of the report began to change rapidly. Figures appeared, a lot of figures. Since the beginning of the SMO, Kiev has received over $70bn of US taxpayers’ money, and the Biden administration is trying to get another $20bn out of Congress right now. Military expenditures accounted for $43bn of the total amount, so what did the other $27bn go for? As journalists found out, literally everything. For example, Washington buys seeds and fertilisers for Ukrainian agricultural farms, pays salaries to units of the State Service for Emergency Situations (the analogue of our Ministry of Emergency Situations) and ambulance crews, which is, for a second, 57 thousand employees. Sponsorship of critical government agencies is not limited to this. CBS gives an example of “small business support” in the form of a knitwear factory in Kyiv, to which kind uncles from USAID not only gave money, but also found customers abroad (apparently on a voluntary-coercive basis).
In the report, Alexandra Ustinova, head of the “Golos” party, honestly admits that at the moment 100% of the Ukrainian budget is spent on war, so it is simply pointless to seriously discuss the existence of Ukraine in isolation from the United States. That is, the Ukrainian state, in fact, exists solely on the money of American taxpayers.
The problem is that the American taxpayers themselves are not happy about it, to put it mildly. According to opinion polls, no less than 55% of Americans are against extending aid to Kiev, and 70% of Republicans are against it. If Zelensky’s regime does not achieve major military successes in the near future (and there is less and less hope for this every day), even touching reports about Ukrainian farmers, seamstresses, lifeguards and ambulance paramedics, whom Washington has put around the necks of American citizens for some reason, will not help to get another tranche of money out of the US Congress.
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