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Ukrainian proxy war - a wealth-transfer pogrom for America and Europe
The first 5 countries on the list border onto Russia and the first 7 countries have all been occupied by the USSR in the last century. Skip Britain and the USA and you are right back into formerly occupied countries. NATO is using the fear of being occupied again to squeeze money out of Europe to continue the war in Ukraine.
If you had a similar graphic for the other side, it would probably be limited to one donor - Russia. If you "follow the money" you will easily see that this is a proxy war between the US and Russia.
71.28 billion Euros works out to almost $500 USD for every taxpayer in America. The next gift that Biden sends to American military manufacturers on behalf of Ukraine will put the total over $500. When you consider that middle-class Americans pay the vast majority of taxes, it becomes obvious that they will be paying much more than $500 each in this wealth-transfer pogrom.
United States to send controversial cluster munitions to Ukraine
By Doug Cunningham
White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan tells reporters at the White House that the Pentagon
will make a formal announcement about the arms package for Ukraine later Friday.
Photo by Samuel Corum/UPI | License Photo
July 7 (UPI) -- The Biden administration Friday said cluster munitions will be sent to Ukraine.
National Security adviser Jake Sullivan confirmed the decision as he told reporters at the White House that the Pentagon would make a formal announcement concerning it, which it did late Friday.
"Ukraine would not be using these munitions in some foreign land," Sullivan said. "This is their country they're defending. These are their citizens they're protecting and they are motivated to use any weapon system they have in a way that minimizes risks to those citizens."
Cluster munitions contain multiple small explosives that are showered over a large area as the munition explodes in the air over targets. Several countries have signed on to ban the use and production of the weapon due to the hazards to civilians when unexploded bomblets are left behind.
On Twitter, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said he supported the decision.
"For Ukrainian forces to defeat Putin's invasion, Ukraine needs at least equal access to the weapons Russia already uses against them, like cluster munitions," he tweeted. "Providing this new capability is the right decision -- even if it took too long -- and is one I've supported."
Later Friday, the Pentagon announced the forty-second drawdown of equipment to be sent to Ukraine for its defense against Russia's military invasion. In a Defense Department statement, officials said the drawdown would include "highly effective and reliable dual-purpose improved conventional munitions (DPICM), on which the administration conducted extensive consultations with Congress and our allies and partners."
DPICMs are the cluster munitions.
The drawdown also includes Patriot air-defense systems, Stinger anti-aircraft systems, 155mm howitzers and artillery, as well as personnel carriers and mine-clearing equipment. It also includes more than 28 million rounds of small arms ammunition and grenades.
Wow! Military industrial olicarchs in America just got a whole lot richer, while American middle-class taxpayers just got a little poorer. Their tax bill for drawdowns to support the war in Ukraine just passed $500 per taxpayer, (see article above), if taxes were equal, but since the rich and the poor pay little in taxes, middle-class Americans probably pay twice that amount, if not more.
America's proxy war with Russia is Bidenomics method of wealth distribution - from middle class to wealthy.
German defense minister Boris Pistorius said Berlin, a signatory to the ban on cluster munitions, would not provide Ukraine with such weapons.
"Germany has signed the convention, so it is no option for us," Pistorius told reporters, adding "those countries that have not signed the convention -- China, Russia, Ukraine and the U.S. -- it is not up to me to comment on their actions."
A 2021 report by the Cluster Munition Coalition found that thousands of cluster bombs around the world killed and injured civilians in 2020 long after fighting stopped.
So, the practice using of land mines, which Princess Diana fought to get rid of, has been replaced by something even more brutal and dangerous.
Human Rights Watch on Wednesday said both Russia and Ukraine are using cluster munitions and urged the United States not to provide Ukraine with the weapons.
"Cluster munitions used by Russia and Ukraine are killing civilians now and will continue to do so for many years," said HRW acting arms director Mary Wareham in a statement. "Both sides should immediately stop using them and not try to get more of these indiscriminate weapons."
HRW said that if the United States decided to transfer cluster munitions to Ukraine it would "inevitably cause long-term suffering for civilians and undermine international opprobrium of their use."
As if that matters to the Pentagon. By the time this proxy war is over, there will be nothing left of Ukraine anyway. It will be bombed back into the middle ages. But the arms manufacturers and the politicians they support will get filthy rich and laugh all the way to the bank. Do I sound a little bitter?
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