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Another $2 bn to Ukraine and its neighbours from the USA. Not for rebuilding the economy; not for providing for refugees fleeing the war; not for providing food or medicine for civilians stuck in Ukraine; but for arms that will prolong the war, kill more people, drive more refugees, and destroy more infrastructure.
This $2 bn will not benefit Ukraine or Europe, but will benefit America's military-industrial oligarchs at the expense of American tax-payers. It's all part of Biden's wealth transfer program.
Blinken makes surprise visit to Kyiv, pledges $2 billion in new U.S. aid
By Clyde Hughes
Residents are seen walking near a destroyed administrative building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Wednesday following a Russian rocket attack. Photo by Sergey Kozlov/EPA-EFE
Blinken met with senior Ukrainian officials during his visit in the capital city. During the meetings, he communicated the new aid authorized by U.S. President Joe Biden.
It was Blinken's second visit to Kyiv since the Russian war began in February. He and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made a trip there in April to show support for the Ukrainian people.
"President [Vladimir] Putin and the Kremlin will not commit these systematic abuses with impunity," Blinken said in a tweet on Wednesday before his unannounced visit to Ukraine. "We are holding the perpetrators of these atrocities to account. The U.S. and our partners will not be silent. Ukraine and its citizens deserve justice."
Without counting the hundreds, if not thousands of children who simply disappear in Europe, the fate of women and child refugees from Ukraine is often deplorable and heart-breaking. All the fault of the west's war industry and determination to destroy Russia.
Ukrainian Refugees Report Cases of Exploitation in Europe
Angelika Larionova
The EU prides itself on having welcomed Ukrainians displaced by the Russian invasion. But DER SPIEGEL reporting shows that ruthless businessman are seizing the opportunity to exploit the refugees. Some cases seem close to human trafficking.
By Sara Cincurova und Steffen Lüdke
21.09.2022, 15.10 Uhr
Der Spiegel
Angelika Larionova suspected that something wasn’t quite right when she saw her new home for the first time. She was standing in front of a grayish-brown, dilapidated structure in an industrial park. The plaster was peeling from the walls and cardboard was jammed into the window frames so that no one could see inside. Recalling the moment, Larionova says she had wanted to turn around and leave.
Larionova had fled Ukraine a short time before, right after the first Russian rockets began raining down. In Sumy, not far from the Russian border in the northeast of Ukraine, she hurried to the train station, her daughter Jana in tow. Her husband had to stay behind. Larionova had hoped that she would find safety in the European Union and that she and her daughter would be taken care of in Slovakia. But that isn’t what happened.
Just outside of Čadca, a small city in the north of Slovakia, she was given work at a factory, where she was initially told she would be assembling automobile parts for 4.50 per hour, 12 hours a day. But the contract other Ukrainian women at the factory showed her only mentioned 10 hours of work – for an entire week. And the hourly wage was far less. According to the contract, she would receive just 37 euros per week. Starvation wages.
Lodging in an industrial area near Čadca: "That's not how I wanted to live." Foto: privat
In the rooms inside the crumbling building near the factory, there were three beds for five occupants. Larionova says she recalls finding pubic hairs in the sheets, and at night, she could hear drunk men having sex with the Ukrainian women. Larionova was afraid of what might happen to her daughter, who was supposed to stay here as well. She forbade Jana from going into the shared bathroom on her own. "It was awful," she says. "That’s not how I wanted to live."
There is much more to this story at Der Spiegel. It does little to lift your faith in humanity.
I don't agree with Roger Waters on everything, but on the Ukraine war, he has it right-on.
Pink Floyd founder cancels Poland concerts after war remarks
Roger Waters performs at the United Center on Tuesday, July 26, 2022, in Chicago. Polish media are reporting that Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has canceled concerts planned in Poland amid outrage over his stance on Russia’s war against Ukraine. An official with the concert arena in Krakow where Waters had been scheduled to perform in April said the musician's manager had withdrawn the April performances without giving a reason. (Photo by Rob Grabowski/Invision/AP, File)
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has canceled concerts planned in Poland amid outrage over his stance on Russia’s war against Ukraine, Polish media reported Saturday.
An official with the Tauron Arena in Krakow, where Waters was scheduled to perform two concerts in April, said they would no longer take place.
“Roger Waters’ manager decided to withdraw ... without giving any reason,” Lukasz Pytko from Tauron Arena Krakow said Saturday in comments carried by Polish media outlets.
The website for Waters’ “This Is Not a Drill” concert tour did not list the Krakow concerts previously scheduled for April 21-22.
City councilors in Krakow were expected to vote next week on a proposal to name Waters as a persona non grata, expressing “indignation” over the musician’s stance on the war in Ukraine.
Waters wrote an open letter to Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska early this month in which he blamed “extreme nationalists” (read - NeoNazis) in Ukraine for having “set your country on the path to this disastrous war.” He also criticized the West for supplying Ukraine with weapons, blaming Washington in particular.
Waters has also criticized NATO, accusing it of provoking Russia.
This is how Deep State controls the narrative. The most meager mention of NATO's 8-year effort to provoke Russia into attacking Ukraine. Also, AP doesn't bother to explain why Waters accused 'ultra-nationalists' for their part in starting the war. When a report leaves you with more questions than answers, it is a pathetic excuse for journalism.
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