Oddbean new post about login | logout To be honest, all these aid projects for Ukraine or Palestine either seem like scams, or the funds are used to purchase weapons for military purposes.
To be honest, maybe you should do some due diligence before running your mouth on social media.
to be honest, non profit government registered organisations are all political lobby organs, or they are working for big pharma, big agra, or other scammy fascist corporations there might be a couple that aren't either outright or cloaked deceptions but those are probably little local things that you never heard of
Within Ukraine the supermajority of fundraising is to buy more drones to kill Russians. Drones are one of the most effective tools Ukraine has, and unlike other weapons, the parts for them can be easily bought commercially. Of course the fundraising is going to purchase weapons. Killing Russians is how Ukrainians stop Russians from killing them. Solve the root cause of the problem. Not the symptoms. https://image.nostr.build/b2c09e44c2c82aa07d472fbfa77c242acf0cb12af39b13796ac24f0781d64555.jpg
Even leaving aside the fact that there are as many Ukrainians among these Russians as there are Ukrainians among Ukrainians, so in the end, they are killing themselves. It's one thing when the fundraising is declared openly, and it's completely different when you're being fed lies that the money is going to help children and the elderly.
"as many Ukrainians among these Russians" 😂 This isn't some complex moral quandary. Russia is trying to invade Ukraine to take their land and steal their resources. Russians are fighting this war for money: the Russian military is promising huge (for Russia) salaries to soldiers. If it was successful, it would have been a very profitable war because Ukraine has trillions or dollars worth of resources to steal; Russia has already stolen something like a trillion dollars worth of land and resources already.
Ukraine has no resources worth trillions of dollars; they only have billions in debt and cheap labor for the EU. And even if those "trillions of dollars" worth of resources did exist, the U.S. would simply take them for free, just as they've done in the Middle East.
😂😂😂 Just in the occupied areas, there's about $12 trillion worth of resources, including coal, iron ore, etc. https://www.dw.com/en/russia-ukraine-war-natural-resources-grain/a-66639269 And Ukraine has more top quality topsoil than any other country in the world. There's a reason why they're (still) one of the world's top food exporterers. As for the US, they haven't taken resources for free.
The valuation of coal and gas in Ukraine changes every time depending on who is conducting the assessment. In any case, coal is not something that can be expensive in the modern green agenda, and the development of other resources in Ukraine did not occur because modern Ukraine did nothing but steal Russian gas from pipelines and sell children for prostitution and organ transplantation to Europe. Regarding this amusing statement, considering that even under the impoverished conditions of Ukraine, the Biden family thrived there. Hunter Biden especially enjoyed himself with Ukrainian escorts.
there probably is more than one reason to do what russia is doing. i do tend to believe their claim to make ukraine abandon their nato aspirations, and there probably are more reasons, like, for example, the persistant corruption scheme with russian gas that has made ukrainian oligatchs millions. funny how the start of the war coincided with completion deadline for northstream pipelines
There are many reasons, ranging from purely historical ones, such as Kiev being literally the cradle of the Russian world, to economic and military factors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsjKZstp-XU&t=81
with ukraine, the majority of funding claims is to "buy" "drones" or other equipment. actually, there is very little accounting for where the money is actually going
