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Not from his own coffers. He is dead broke. The wallet the Duce has his eyes on is the Eu's. The Eu does provide funds for weapons, but not for troops. Which is unfortunate. The Eu already pays for all kinds of salaries and pensions in Ukraine, why not pay the troops? But the Duce has a solution: why not just say soldiers are weapons?
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"Previously, Europeans refused to provide funding for salaries for our military, only for armaments. Our military can be the weapons that will protect everyone," Zelenskyy told reporters in Kyiv on Thursday, July 24.
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The soldier and his rifle are one indivible whole. Without the soldier, the rifle is useless. Without the rifle, the soldier, is useless. The Rifleman's Creed says so. A point impressively stressed by the terrifying Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket. The Duce makes a good case.
The Duce then points to the Russians as an example of the benefits of high signing bonuses and salaries:
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"Russia has long offered large signing bonuses and high salaries to lure tens of thousands to its army each month, seeking to avoid any repeat of a spike in public anxiety when President Vladimir Putin ordered a partial draft a few months into the 2022 invasion,"
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Except that has to be a lie. For years western and Ukrainian propaganda has told us Russian soldiers are badly fed, badly clothed, badly trained, badly armed, sent into battle armed with shovels...
Many questions and problems pop up:
Why all of a sudden Ukrainian soldiers need financial motivation? Hasn't it been argued ad infinitum that Ukrainians are fighting for their very existence and will never give up?
Don't get me wrong, I do not begrudge the long suffering Ukrainian grunt his pieces of silver. The Ukrainian grunt should get every hryvnia he can lay his hands on. It's not like if he doesn't get it it goes to fund weapons. Any excess goes to line the pockets of the Duce's men. Ukrainian soldiers on the payroll never "die". On payrolls they are immortal. Even if they are six ft deep. Some fat cat keeps collecting their salaries.
If the Eu chooses to agree with the Duce that the long suffering Ukrainian grunt be considered a weapon, and therefore qualify for salaries from Bruxelles, how is the Eu going to tackle the problem of paying for ghost soldiers?
There used to be two independent anti corruption bodies the Eu could rely upon, but the Duce did not like that, and just signed a Decree stripping them of their independence. This allows for a much more efficient and easier fleecing of public coffers.
At this point you may ask where is Uncle Sam in all of this? Why is the Duce not sending a bill to Uncle Sam for sign up bonuses for the Duce's soldiers? Shouldn't Uncle Sam be first in line to be fleeced? Here fate had been most unkind to our Peniless Duce. Uncle Sam's coffers used to be managed by one Senile Joe, whose senility the Duce took advantage of, and fleeced mercilessly. The long suffering American public replaced Senile Joe with an extremely tight fisted accounts manager. So tight fisted he puts Honoré de Balzac's père Grandet to shame.
So the Eu has to bear the burden?
Can the Eu bear the burden? The Ukrainian project is increasingly costly each passing year with no end in sight. The Duce is a very very bad case of good money after bad money. Should the Eu cut its loses?
Not from his own coffers. He is dead broke. The wallet the Duce has his eyes on is the Eu's. The Eu does provide funds for weapons, but not for troops. Which is unfortunate. The Eu already pays for all kinds of salaries and pensions in Ukraine, why not pay the troops? But the Duce has a solution: why not just say soldiers are weapons?
<<<
"Previously, Europeans refused to provide funding for salaries for our military, only for armaments. Our military can be the weapons that will protect everyone," Zelenskyy told reporters in Kyiv on Thursday, July 24.
<<<
The soldier and his rifle are one indivible whole. Without the soldier, the rifle is useless. Without the rifle, the soldier, is useless. The Rifleman's Creed says so. A point impressively stressed by the terrifying Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket. The Duce makes a good case.
The Duce then points to the Russians as an example of the benefits of high signing bonuses and salaries:
<<<
"Russia has long offered large signing bonuses and high salaries to lure tens of thousands to its army each month, seeking to avoid any repeat of a spike in public anxiety when President Vladimir Putin ordered a partial draft a few months into the 2022 invasion,"
<<<
Except that has to be a lie. For years western and Ukrainian propaganda has told us Russian soldiers are badly fed, badly clothed, badly trained, badly armed, sent into battle armed with shovels...
Many questions and problems pop up:
Why all of a sudden Ukrainian soldiers need financial motivation? Hasn't it been argued ad infinitum that Ukrainians are fighting for their very existence and will never give up?
Don't get me wrong, I do not begrudge the long suffering Ukrainian grunt his pieces of silver. The Ukrainian grunt should get every hryvnia he can lay his hands on. It's not like if he doesn't get it it goes to fund weapons. Any excess goes to line the pockets of the Duce's men. Ukrainian soldiers on the payroll never "die". On payrolls they are immortal. Even if they are six ft deep. Some fat cat keeps collecting their salaries.
If the Eu chooses to agree with the Duce that the long suffering Ukrainian grunt be considered a weapon, and therefore qualify for salaries from Bruxelles, how is the Eu going to tackle the problem of paying for ghost soldiers?
There used to be two independent anti corruption bodies the Eu could rely upon, but the Duce did not like that, and just signed a Decree stripping them of their independence. This allows for a much more efficient and easier fleecing of public coffers.
At this point you may ask where is Uncle Sam in all of this? Why is the Duce not sending a bill to Uncle Sam for sign up bonuses for the Duce's soldiers? Shouldn't Uncle Sam be first in line to be fleeced? Here fate had been most unkind to our Peniless Duce. Uncle Sam's coffers used to be managed by one Senile Joe, whose senility the Duce took advantage of, and fleeced mercilessly. The long suffering American public replaced Senile Joe with an extremely tight fisted accounts manager. So tight fisted he puts Honoré de Balzac's père Grandet to shame.
So the Eu has to bear the burden?
Can the Eu bear the burden? The Ukrainian project is increasingly costly each passing year with no end in sight. The Duce is a very very bad case of good money after bad money. Should the Eu cut its loses?
Zelenskyy turns to EU to help fund military pay boost to tackle recruitment woes
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is planning to ask European allies to help fund salary increases for Ukrainian military personnel fighting Russia’s invasion in order to alleviate the shortage of recruits.
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