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The Duce will like a pay raise for his troops

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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?




 
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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 consider soldiers 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 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,"
<<<

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 doesn't get 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?




I'm still waiting for Trump to cut OUR losses. As far as I know, we are still paying for Zelensky's government...their expenses, salaries, health care, etc.
 
I'm still waiting for Trump to cut OUR losses. As far as I know, we are still paying for Zelensky's government...their expenses, salaries, health care, etc.
yup.

And Ukraine is getting hit quite hard all over. Lots of folks turning against Zelensky.

Zelensky will get a golden parachute and refuge from prosecution when its all over.
 
And Russia still can't take Ukraine. Three and-a-half years later the world knows the Russian army is a paper tiger. Putin can't win, and can't stop fighting. How embarrassing for the former KGB agent.
 
Posts # 1/2/3 - Trump and Putin sympathizers (Putin and Trump sympathizers also works)
 
I'm still waiting for Trump to cut OUR losses. As far as I know, we are still paying for Zelensky's government...their expenses, salaries, health care, etc.
And now American/Western middle class folks MUST pay for Ukrainian mercenaries (oops soldiers) fighting for the interests of Western capitalists.
The Western war mongers must not be shy to open their pockets for advancing the cause of their Globalist leaders.
 
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yup.

And Ukraine is getting hit quite hard all over. Lots of folks turning against Zelensky.

Zelensky will get a golden parachute and refuge from prosecution when its all over.
Of course he will flee to his friend Macron in France with his French newly acquired private bank ready to prop up his lavish style of life.
 
Posts # 1/2/3 - Trump and Putin sympathizers (Putin and Trump sympathizers also works)
I think your beloved Western globalists do not pay much attention to Trump sympathizers, But they need your money! It's time to pay for this beautiful Anti-Russian proxy way in Ukraine. Trump will raise taxes and cover Mr. Green Goblin's expenses for his Ukrainian brave military folk/orcs.
 
And Russia still can't take Ukraine.



The combination Ukraine + Nato/Eu is nothing to be sneered at



Three and-a-half years later the world knows the Russian army is a paper tiger.


Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte begs to differ





Putin can't win, and can't stop fighting. How embarrassing for the former KGB agent.



Nato/Eu is the party that has sunk in hundreds of billions of dollars with nothing to show for it.
 
Of course he will flee to his friend Macron in France with his French newly acquired private bank ready to prop up his lavish style of life.

They still peddle that crap in Russia, huh?
 
Nato/Eu is the party that has sunk in hundreds of billions of dollars with nothing to show for it.

A humiliated & severely degraded Russian military.
An economically degraded Russia.
A bruise the size of Texas inflicted on Putzin's ego.

Money well spent.
 
I think your beloved Western globalists do not pay much attention to Trump sympathizers, But they need your money! It's time to pay for this beautiful Anti-Russian proxy way in Ukraine. Trump will raise taxes and cover Mr. Green Goblin's expenses for his Ukrainian brave military folk/orcs.
Europe will use the $300 billion in seized Russian assets to pay for their help for Ukraine. Then the rest will go to reconstruction as soon a Russia loses and goes home.
 
Europe will use the $300 billion in seized Russian assets to pay for their help for Ukraine. Then the rest will go to reconstruction as soon a Russia loses and goes home.
Yep . as "soon as". Keep dreaming .
Russia is at home in Donbass . no need to go anywhere .
 
And now American/Western middle class folks MUST pay for Ukrainian mercenaries (oops soldiers) fighting for the interests of Western capitalists.
The Western war mongers must not be shy to open their pockets for advancing the cause of their Globalist leaders.

Ukrainians and volunteers fight BECAUSE RUSSIA INVADED.

Yep . as "soon as". Keep dreaming .
Russia is at home in Donbass . no need to go anywhere .

Incorrect. They can go back to Mother Russia.
 
Yep . as "soon as". Keep dreaming .
Russia is at home in Donbass . no need to go anywhere .
Russians are dying like flies in Donbass and they will keep dying until they leave for good.
 
A humiliated & severely degraded Russian military.
An economically degraded Russia.
A bruise the size of Texas inflicted on Putzin's ego.

Money well spent.



Its not about money well spent. Clearly Zelensky does not agree with you that enough money has been spent
 
They still peddle that crap in Russia, huh?


Maybe you can explain why last week Zelensky moved to take over two independent anti-corruption organisations
 
Europe will use the $300 billion in seized Russian assets to pay for their help for Ukraine. Then the rest will go to reconstruction as soon a Russia loses and goes home.


How much of that $300 billion dollars is still left?
 
Maybe you can explain why last week Zelensky moved to take over two independent anti-corruption organisations

Maybe you can explain why Zelenskyy improved the SAPO and NABU in new legislation?


And explain to us why Russia has no anti-corruption organizations equivalent to Ukraine's SAPO and NABU?
 
How much of that $300 billion dollars is still left?

All of it is left. Nothing has been used except the accumulated interest.
 
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