Hilarious how you blame "Soviet Bureaucracy" while ignoring the fact that Ukraine was and still is the most corrupt country in Europe. Zelensky is in fact the center piece of the Pandora Papers. Zelensky is the living embodiment of a corrupt politician, but somehow you forgot to mention that.

That has effectively declared war on Moldova, and if Romania were to insist on its claims, them too.

​@@JelMainBS. The ports targeted are in Ukraine controlled territory. Only response will be further security beefup in MD & RO. Same as when the missile hit Polish territory and 2 farmers died as a result in Poland.

@@linkme2dnet Nonsense. It's piracy, plain pure and simple, as is Russia's attempt to monopolise the entire Black Sea, itself an attack on the territorial waters of three NATO members. Ukraine is free to ship its wheat where it will, overland to Poland, if you like: the problem is that it massively increases the shipping expense to Africa. The missile was Ukrainian, an accident Poland has tolerated. But at the same time, one cannot forget Russia's attack on an American drone, and the three GRU attacks in the UK, the organised interference with democracy (which involved me personally, I should add, although it's simply more of a lifetime's focus on that pitiful excuse for a nation) and decades of enmity and abuse of many other nations. Pressure is building inside NATO for a less passive response.

The Black Sea does not belong to Russia, so Moscow has no rights over any it anyway. Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine (which includes Crimea and the Azov region), and Georgia have their rights to their parts of the Black Sea. Russia's Black Sea naval fleet has so got to go. Liquidate it if we must.

Ukraine will turn into obsidian and tektite by 2025.

this is the only 'silver lining' to the war frankly speaking. Yes there was widespread corruption in Ukraine before the war but what people dont realise is that this was *because* oligarchs had very close ties to the Kremlin / Siloviki etc. putin is the godfather of Medvechuk's daughter for F-sake! The Yanukovich government had to go. It's extremely difficult for Ukraine to modernise with such insidious Kremlin / russian influence in everything

Dude, Ukraine and corruption are synonymous words, at best they would have introduced "lobbying" instead of corruption, which would not have changed the picture much

bra, your comment lacks significant context. Yes there was widespread corruption in Ukraine before the war but you need to realise that this was because oligarchs had very close ties to the Kremlin / Siloviki etc or were russian themselves. putin is the godfather of Medvechuk's daughter for F-sake! The Yanukovich government had to go. Ukraine had 80 years of Communism/ Stalinism / Leninism and before 1917 (the year there was a Ukrainian attempt at independence - btw the map of Ukraine pre-1917 includes part of russia and was drawn and recognised by Dutch traders in the 17th Century. Can tell this next time a russian tries to come up with some BS about border changes by Lenin), they had two centuries of russian empire expansion and brutal aggression. Then consider the complete banning of Ukrainian language and culture throughout the entire 18th and 19th centuries, the active washing of Ukrainian history by Catherine the Great & Alexander II, and the execution of 100,000 Ukrainian intelligencia during the cold war. Oh, and the death of 10.5m Ukrainians from 3 famines deliberated caused by the Soviets - see Hoover Institute lecture on the subject - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aatpfNWI1r3Jp4k.html Now, you try to overhaul a country with such constant, long running, and insidious influence and adversity see how easy it is! People really need to give the Ukrainians credit where credit is due! They will accomplish the task but its painful, involves a lot of suffering, and it deserves everyone's support!

@@anneslot7013 Laughs in German

But Ukraine today has founding myth and once war is over even prospect of better days coming, so I would expect baby boom after the war.

Ukrainians should have concentrated on making babies. But in the modern world child-bearing and child-rearing are considered boring, old-fashioned and bad for the Planet.

​​@@MrToradragon Yeah, hopefully Ukraine would experience a baby boom with 2 children or 3 children per Ukrainian woman ideally like Israel's fertility rate. A booming, young Ukrainian population would be great overall.

The trend is the same everywhere but Africa, but it happens at different speeds in different places. The west may be declining soon but only slow, and it's easily the richest region of the world and thus will be best positioned to deal with it. Just how it is. Literally everyone else will get it much, much worse.

China is different because of their huge investments in AI and robotics. Their government predicted that the population will fall in the future because of lifestyle changing of the Chinese and onechild policy.

Yes. I do hope not. Is there any way of preventing that kind of disaster?

@@daydays12 convincing the people in power that it is worth it to create good quality urban spaces. Educating the public and see if people rally or not around this issue.

@@Abcflc nah that's not possible. Especially knowing that Ukraine is poor af and corrupt.

The reconstruction process already going on in Mariupol for example. Quality of the buildings is OKAY I guess...

they should give up all the territories so Russia has to rebuild everything💀

So, you're less than two years old?

Currently occupied territory. I was born there when it wasn’t, silly

Russia is a country of killers

@@maxibardi Yes, silly me.

@@RandomGuy-qg9xf absolutely agree. Demographically, both for Ukraine and Russia, it is the worst time ever to throw the little amount of young people we have into the furnace of war.

Particularly if the EU's involved.

@@JelMain The EU is not perfect, it has all sorts of flaws. But it's one of the least corrupt parts of the world. Most of the top countries in the world for tackling corruption are in the EU.

Once the war is over, hopefully the demographic problems will be helped by immigration to Ukraine. The corruption is a huge issue but I think Ukraine as a country is more united than ever before as a people and there is the political will to tackle corruption. The war will provide the shock to the system that will allow corruption to be tackled.

@@ster2600 I've spent twenty years in Brussels face to face with the real thing. It's not presented a clean set of accounts since soon after it was formed - I was Head of Finance of WEU for half that time. It is loathed by the locals, and renowned for its sloth - they tell the tale of a local admiring the huge buildings and asking how many people work there - the reply's about ten. When they took on the Foreign and Security Policy Portfolio from us, they gave themselves three years to accomplish what took us three months to set up, a functional Military HQ, but hadn't accomplished it in ten. Eventually Cameron pulled the plug. The problem's that our Council focused on the job of keeping Europe safe. Theirs has taken on too much, and the defence portfolio is way down the list behind rabbit-farming in San Remo. The essence of good soldiering is speed, a word missing from their vocabulary. Indeed, their President, Ursula van der Leyen, was nominated to get rid of her from German politics after she fouled up her role of Defence Minister so seriously she left the army without boots for five years. When Ukraine blew up, it was discovered that was simply the tip of the iceberg, where everyone else has given Ukraine kit which would otherwise have gone to the scrap yard (but was still far better than what the Russians have, so it was adequate for the purpose) Germany's sent it's 50 year old Leopard 2s, with nothing better to replace them with. This is why they have no voice in the matter, they simply don't know their subject.

​@patagonianpaintsome people would say there was a plan

Demographically Ukraine not so bad. Ukraine mean age of first birth was 22 years in 1993, now it 27 years, so real fertility rate was 1,5 children per women not 1,2 (from 1993 to 2023). As mean age of first birth growing and will be 32 years old in 2050, so real fertility rate will be 1,5 before 2050, but per year fertility rate will be 1,2. So population decline will be fast but family structure will be not so bad. Real fertliity rate in Ukraine now for women who is 40 years old. Childless-7%, 1 child-50%, 2 children-37%, 3 and more children - 7%.

98% of houses belongs to families so majority of young couples inherited houses from grandparents in age about 30 years old. As they have no need in buying or renting house, they use money on local services. Typical Ukranian person in age 33 years old married with 1 or 2 children and inherited flat in city and house in village.

@@rohj4825 probably because theyre dying young

​​@@KennyNGABiggest reason for lower life expectancy is that older Ukrainians is overweight. So in Ukraine there are much lower number of people 70 and more years old compared with West Europe or East Asia. So for person of age 33 years old it very uncommon have grandparents.

​@@KennyNGABefore war mortality rate for person younger than 40 years old was almost at the same level with West Europe. So Ukraine population decline fast and will be about 17 millions in 2100, but the proportion of childless lonely old people in Ukraine will be much lower compared with West Europe or East Asia.

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Sending my luck to you guys aswell

And thank you for your support! :)

@@bannerjay3347 Thank you very much!

Cant reach first defense line.

And to Greece too. Still waiting...

Good for the USA used to the "you're fired" culture

Lol like Blackrock care

And the selling off of Public assets

​@@KayGornallsWordMagicthey have to keep expanding their markets or they'll cease up

It isn't. But it's the least bad option.

Hi, I think more significant still is the strikes on Reni, in the Romanian border. Odessa was already virtually useless since the war broke out. Those Danube River ports essentially were a lifeline to Ukraine, since they still had access to their trains (which have different gauges than in the West). Thanks for the kind words :) Cheers, Hugo

This brings us to the 4th scenario, the one signalled by col Macgregor, if the war is prolonged: Russia reaching the border with Romania and Ukraine becomes a landlocked country.

​@@mike42356yep. Nightmare situation for Erdoğan as much as him and Putin have been pragmatic in their various conflicts across the world this would be the straw that breaks the camels back.

​@@joeylopez7978No one is saying anything about that. Ofcourse that Russians are gonna payback. Original comment just said that Odessa has been hit hard, not finding any excuses.....

@@joeylopez7978 Russia also got the Kerch bridge attack on themselves by invading Ukraine. What’s the point? Conflicts are always initiative or reactionary

True this is rarely talked about in Europe. Probably because these nations themselves benefit from this growth. 🤐

That is a terrible thing. Almost as if the monster has won 😥

True. The kids will have been in school for years and the parents (mothers) will have jobs that earn a multiple of what they could get in Ukraine which, moreover, is largely destroyed... Old people may or may not return, but the young will stay in EU, for sure.

@@der110 This is true. It is uncomfortable to admit that most of the immigration from Ukraine is mostly beneficial to the host-countries, but detrimental to Ukraine long-term. On the other hand, forcing children from immigrants to move back can be as world-shattering for the individual families as the forced evacuation caused by the war. European countries should lay a path for families to transition back to Ukraine if they wish. But this will not be an easy issue.

Lol why not just to move аll people to Europe and give the territory to Russia?)

More to come!

@@IntoEurope shame on you for spreading Russified EU propaganda

raymoo

@@siltdoctor3478 die-sækku queze?

Still, I believe that the recovery of Croatia is a success story. You're a respected member of the EU, and your economy is growing despite the tourism crash during the pandemic. Recovery is an ongoing process, but if Ukraine is on the same trajectory as Croatia it would definitely not be the worst case scenario. Though of course I hope Ukraine gets a total victory that includes lots of war reparations and border recognition.

Despite the mines you mentioned, I still want to drive along the Dalmatian coast with my fiancée one day soon. 😊

@@MeeesterBond17 Don't worry Dalmatian coast is clear of mines, problematic areas are in the interior along the border with Bosnia. I hope you have a great holiday :)

greetings from Zaporozhye, Ukraine. Thank you and your wonderful people, wonderful and beautiful country for the support you give us!

@@zeNoldor If only you had a President that actually LOVED his country instead of complaining he wasn't allowed at the grammys!!!! He is responsable for this mess and unless and until Ukrainians have the honesty within themselves to admit they were duped by Zelensky and tricked in fighting a war NO UKRAINIAN want, this conflict can go for quite a while! How many young men were sent to the battlefield that didn't even want to fight?!

Love USA from Ukraine 🇺🇦 ❤🇺🇸

thank you 😘

Glory to USA🇺🇦🇺🇸

G-d bless our Countries!

God bless USA! Warm greetings from Ukraine ❤ Thank you for all your rupport and help!

No one did it to japan. Japan is the nation that in 30 40went to be closed to becoming modernized and defeating Russia and becoming a great power. Same for Germany. Even then some things can’t be rebuilt nazis destroyed german(prussian) university’s 70 year later still german university’s have not recovered to global rankings.

@@Myanmartiger921 true but Germany is still an industrial power house.

Exactly this!

​@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231it was a powerhouse before ww2 same as Japan ....Ukraine was poor and horribly corrupt

@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 Can't say if its still the truth.

wirtschaftswunder

Pray for the Ukraine's existence , instead.

Lol, they might not even exist after this.

@@eliasziad7864 Same could happen to Russia. What's your point exactly.

@@adlerzwei Same could happen to U.S.A and E.U.

Yes, good luck with that.

Those talented people would be hired abroad and leave. To not have EU visas was a major point of getting into the trap that they are in now. Also, that's the power of money printing that only a few countries have - to buy most of the talent. People from Ukraine will live in another country, pay taxes there, provide to the economies there, all while telling stories of how they love their homeland.

The corruption level is horrific in Ukraine, they need the media to sweat blood to mask it up with next to no success. Anyone who gets the slightest idea of f makeing a change would end up bad....

Some will emigrate and resettle. But most will gain skills and come home. And create good jobs in Ukraine. Ukraine 🇺🇦 is slaying the corruption pattern as fast as possible. It’s a lovely country and rebuilding at peace ✌️

@@davidcpugh8743 tell me you've never been to Ukraine without telling me you've been to Ukraine lol. The whole shtick of that country for the last 30+ years was trying to find someone to pay for them. The plan now is to be on West's allowance, playing the victim card for the next 40 years or something. Hell, all that their president is doing is going on tours asking for money, while making an effort to convince people abroad that the people of Ukraine are "just like them". Damn, they have even legalised weed in Ukraine, what a progressive country lol, now give them some more of that sweet cash. Set some more biolabs, let Blackrock buy some more land, anything goes so that they don't have to work by themselves. "Slaying corruption" lol, I remember when the oligarchs were killing each other in plain daylight in their power struggle just 5 years ago, good luck with that.

😂 Neither Germany or France are going for that and the UK is too broke. Only Larry fink can save Ukraine.

You have no idea of what's really going on. The country is being sold to Blackrock. Ukrainians won't be able to own anything after reconstruction.

You know what South Korea was like up until the 2000s, right?

​@@skp8748unfortunately a Brexit broke UK will be more than happy to lend money to Ukraine at extortionate interest rates.

​@@skp8748how's the uk broke

We all? Nah 😂 Russia!!! 🤍💙❤💪

Germany was rebuilt by US, Poland was rebuilt by USSR (now they hate us), any other devastated country was rebuilt by some major power. No one needs strong Ukraine, the West only wants to destroy Russia

@@fitgirl8812 Russia is nice country before it got captured but the dictators putin/stalin/lenin since then this country is a 3 d world shit that terrorizes its own people and invades countries, weak country which wanna be USA but can't reach it and will never reach it cause weak as fuck and all it can do just threat smaller countries 😂

@@dimkuch9519 Nice piece of of western official propaganda )) Do more CNN and BBC )))

​@@fitgirl8812seeing you support russia. I want to ask. Why? And dont try giving me the nazi stuff bs. Just a straight up. Honest answer

Yeah exactly that's why post soviet countries who joined EU are unlivable, those germans and americans are extracting every penny out of those economies and most people resort to begging on the street in rags, heartbreaking really But seriously, have you ever seen a chart of GDP per capita for like Poland or Czechia in the last 30 years

@@freddekl1102 Poland didn't privatize as quickly or with as few protectionist policies as Russia and Ukraine did. It was also given near immediate access to the European market and forgiven the lion's share of its past debts. This never happened for Ukraine and Russia, which dissolved into oligarchies.

Yes.....Ukraine will have to be very careful....there are many sharks about.

It requires a very steady hand by the government. Nationalise or regulate core exports f.ex. and not let "cowboy entrepreneurs" go free by corrupting politicians and administration. Not easy, but possible if openess (press freedom) and democracy is maintained.

@@AleksiJuvakka They were also heavily industrialized as a major port area and part of Baltic trade, and so started off in 1991 exporting refined oil and electronics rather than just agricultural products. It was never going to be a major source of cheap labor and raw goods... which is all the EU and its investors seem ready to see Ukraine as.

And when do expect get the money?

@@pedropalotes7638 I'm assuming you meant where do you expect. I'd argue the three following I think would be the most justified. 1.) Selling of all seized Russian assets 2.) Direct loans from the US & EU (United States did this after WWII, it was called the Marshal plan, worked out decently) 3.) Russian Reparations (keep it just under the amount the Russian economy is losing from sanctions, so a payment of reparations means the removal of sanctions) Personally I think these are the best avenues for long term prosperity. We've seen aid before, during and after a war in Europe help to keep out Russian influence while not inherently stripping worker's rights, or democratic practices through the means of over privatization. Privatization is always a dangerous move for workers rights and democratic practices.

@@angelahornung8488 the three following have lots of problems. 1.- The russian assets are mainly in EU banks and EU laws only let you seize them (now they are frozen) if EU is at war against Russia, do you see the french or german government (the main of the assets are in their banks) declaring war against Russia? I dont 2.- EU economy has enough problems to make new loans, EU Comission told Spain to cut government's budget in 22.000 million euro, what do you think will happen in countries that have to make cuts in the budget when is published they are loaning money to Ukraine? In Germany AfD has grown a lot, since this war begun. 3.- Sanctions arent really hurting so much as our media and our politicians says as Russia has hadnt problems to find other markets and as EU countries continue to buy from Russia, France and Spain were last years'main buyers from russian LNG

The EU could also consider making a special offer/emergency case. For example, the Balkan states in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars. The circumstances are really unprecedented. Especially since the EU knows that if Ukraine doesn't have a safety net, it would be invaded again by Russia

@basiledex2164 Keep dreaming putlerbot

France and Germany carry EU. And France is a country that handle well crisis because of it's socialist economic. (Mostly Keynesianist)@basiledex2164

@basiledex2164 The US is in a recession like 50% of the time and yet they still manage to be a world power. Why would the EU have any reason to dissolve anyways?

@basiledex2164 continue dreaming

The main issue is the level at which the west helps Urkaine. With this current "keep Ukraine alive" levels we pay huge cost in human lives

Most of the millions who left the country since february 2022 won't come back in Ukraine to live. MOst of themm were already dreaming about leaving the country enven before the war started. After this war the most economically viable part of Ukraine will be under the russian side. The country will be spiritually broken as it's economy.

I would not be that hopefull.. We had few migration waves in Poland, many people left and have never came back, even if we are currently safe and have strong economy. People just settled somewhere else and are happy with their life. Who would come back to completly devastated city?? Without work, schools and so on... Only old stubborn folks.

Mostly women left and many of them since the war started settled, found boyfriends and surely some married. Many women lost husbands, what they have to come back for? Also many came back from Poland. 5 million Ukrainians also live in Russia. Likelihood is more will go to Russia. The thing is, many people speak only Russian. If they are engineers or teachers, lawyers, they do not want to go to Romania or UK in their 50s and start earning new language. Would you? It takes your career back and some people hate speaking another language. Russian language is also very specific. It is very hard for them to speak without an accent and they know they are being mocked for it. Maybe but easier for Ukrainian speakers.

Ukrainians are bilingual. no normal Ukrainian wants to go to Russia. many people were forcibly taken there, children for example. Someone was able to get out of there @@olivka7560

Yes indeed!

Ukraine has natural resources out the wazoo, when this is settled investors will flood in, especially because govt money will flood in, too. The opportunity for grift will become even bigger than it is now

Companies didnt want to invest even before Ukraine civil war and annexation of Crimea. Ukraine is the most corrupted country in Europe. Even in this war at 400 mln have been stolen thats why Zelensky fires everyone all the time.

flag on the avatar made me laugh.

Fuck that. Everyone is suffering it is not politically palatable.

Far better for the UN to tackle it.

You forgot the conditionality of those loans where Ukraine is already selling off public assets. That kind of growing economy?

And be honest to yourself, with this current climate collapse and systemic oil/profit driven inaction toward demise, there would not be a 2100

@@toyotaprius79 There's no need for conditionality. Very low interest rates mean they could take their time paying them off, much like western Europe did with their marshall loans. It's not supposed to be a debt trap. In fact the low interest rates are kind of indirect grant since they'll likely trail inflation. And with that attitude the marshall plan shouldn't have been done because some people thought we'd all perish in nuclear hellfire before 1980.

😂

You omitted the ongoing climate collapse. Not so easy

@@toyotaprius79 I didnt omitt anything, i dont think you comprehend how badly the climate and enviroment was screwed up in Europe after the war either.

@@alexanderrose1556 Question is not in can or cannot, but rather what for? Ofc european banks can print out trillions of euros and entice european business to build Ukraine up, but whether it wants to or not will depend on their interests, not Ukraines. Let me repeat - Ukraine's bright(!) future is no matter of interest to anyone beside the ukrainians. Other powers are taking part in this conflict with their personal interests in mind.

The population of Europe after WW2 did not practically halve along with the fertility rate being significantly below replacement. Key difference and problem to tackle, I feel.

Ukraine may be repopulated by African migrants who will be all too glad and proud to rebuild a real European country!

@@Slavianophile Lol, they will instantly leave to Germany my friend, like thousands already did from Poland Slovakia, Hungary etc.

@@Slavianophileтак не зрозумів

@@Slavianophile 😂Oh they will alright, unless they're gonna turn it into a third world shithole like they have back home

@@Slavianophile Ось же зрада

2-3 years . The /day The war IS over construcción Will begin

Americans will focus on selling arms (+ probably permanent military base) and probably gas/oil in the black sea, maybe even a nuclear power plant .... There is a reason it was french companies who built the sarcophagus around Chernobyl a few years ago, the US is just too far (not to mention they don't even use the metric system)

@@trthib US based Agrotech and big agri-business companies are buying land in Ukraine for decades now, when prices were stable. Now just imagine the cost of land which is ridden with mines and explosives and will be unproductive till decades more ! Energy & Electricity, Mineral & hydrocarbon, food and farming, IT & Services sectors already have huge US based companies present. It's the Iraq-Cargill-Haliburton saga all over again. UK as usual will get to lick the bones and chew on the crumbs. EU based companies will have some subcontract at best but simply will not have enough political capital in Kyiv to win anything more substantial. Bigger worry should be the EU's capacity to finance long term reconstruction considering the mountain of debt due to the COVID and Energy crisis. Slow growth and borderline recession on some countries like Germany will only add to the woe.

@@trthib only US has the money to actually fund a reconstruction just as it is American military aid keeping Ukraine fighting.

Assuming Russia doesnt defeat ukraine and turn it into a rump state.

So Ukraine will become a US protectorate. So much for inependence.

You continue to support Russia further in order to continue to beg for help instead of becoming a European country. hello from Ukraine

@@zeNoldor I'm begging for help? What about Ukraine your home country BEGGING for our BILLIONS of our money and BEGGING for F-16. Btw my friend couldnt go to the dormatory because you dirty Ukrainians are living there. Start making peace you warmongers.

Exactly

But in weapons... 💀

Flourish again? And when exactly did it "flourish" before?

@@rob6927 I’d say before Moscow tried to suck it dry? In the Soviet Union it was full of factories producing a large about of ships tanks etc, if it was already free it would have been rich but Moscow took it for potato’s and now that they are somewhat free, they have huge grain exports, huge gas and oil deposits in its territory, and still have a large manufacturing infrastructure

@@codyponto8403 What? 😂 So then you are basically saying that it was "flourishing" when it was actually under Moscow's rule?😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂

@@rob6927 wow Someone can’t read

@@codyponto8403 Well, only a 🤡 can say "in the Soviet union it was full of factories etc..." and who was in charge of the SU?

I appreciate that!

Glad you liked it!

всю незалежноссть запад выводил деньги из украины и рассказывал что это олигархи, а теперь папуасы дякуют ему за то что он их на мясо отправляет ))

@@asd99579Het Ivan! I thought you were English! Speak English, Spanish, French or Ukrainian on our damn technology. And shut up no one asked you bot.

And we thank you my brave friend

​@marksimpson4215 you mean just be a Russian puppet state. NEUTRALITY IS THE PIPE DREAM NOTION since 2014.

EU and NATO are different things.

Of courrse I know, my country is a member of both. but do you know why NATO was formed and by who? Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore, but NATO stayed, plus instead of Soviet Union, you now have European Union which if you look at it closely it is a hidden communism under 'democracy' umbrella.

​@@fastertoveu stupid? OP means the EU or NATO

​@@papierbak Yeah, you are right, my language was too harsh.

@@nightcitymusic1 Not sure you understand what communism is, if you think that.

Yeah only downside is that ukraine would only have the manpower to continue this war for 2 more years at maximum...

The one that never wanted a peaceful agreement were Ukranie. Even fucking Merkel admitted Minsk agreements were a fake to bait Russia.

There was an agreement. Minsk agreements. Ukraine violated it.

@@daniser87 russia violated it first but go on i guess

@@pumpknight8539 which clause?

How did you do your calculations? It's quite doubtful that the way our economies are going there is going to be a trillion+ spare to give out, also keep in mind the amount is just getting higher the longer the war continues.

@@rob6927 I mean 2% is still quite a large amount, you'd have to deprioritize something else, but my point is that it's possible. Basically, the calculation was: The US federal budget (expenditure, they're deficit spending) is about $6 trillion per year (according to Wikipedia). (These days 1$=1€ more or less.) So in 10 years (arbitrary time period) that's 60 trillion. 1 trillion is somewhere between 1-2% of that. For comparison the German federal budget is about €300 billion per year. So if we take for example all of the OECD, you see what I mean that it wouldn't be a massive problem.

@@xway2 As if it was that easy. Good luck with finding a trillion dollars in the current economy. And also the longer the war keeps going, the amount needed rises as well... I don't see how any of this could end well for Ukraine. Most likely the "help" they will get will only be getting some kind of visa program to work in the West.

@@rob6927 I mean I agree, I don't think it will happen. It's just that I think it would be good to help them fully, even from an egoistic perspective (at least for the EU), and it would theoretically be possible if there is the political will to do it. Just like a lot of countries (mine included) are now finding the money to start spending 2% GDP (which is like ~6-10%+ budget) on military. Large reassignments of the budget are possible if we just decide to do it.

@@xway2 Well, after the "help" they got so far they probably won't exist after this is finished 🤷🏻

the subtitles were likely simply generated, in the video I think the guy says 15%

Yes but the most important parts are under russian controll. Crimea has Oil and a port while donbass has also Oil and good soil

I think the best option for Ukraine would be peace on Russia's terms. Russia is only interested in territories with a large Russian-speaking population. Thus, Russia may be interested only in Transnistria, the situation with which can be solved much easier diplomatically, by returning the inhabitants to Russia or giving up the entire territory of Transnistria.

@@sptrco Well, if you judge like that, then the goals of the war were not Transnistria, it seems that no one is pressing on them, just a small piece of the micro country of Transnistria

@@landate1 I follow the situation in Transnistria and Moldova. Transnistria rebelled because it did not support the pro-Western orientation of the Moldovan authorities. And now the situation is getting worse due to the reduction in the number of Russian diplomats and the pumping of Moldova with American weapons. So I consider it important for Russia to reach the borders of Transnistria to deter Moldova or Ukraine from possible encroachments on the territory with Russian peacekeepers and Russian people

what encroachments, fascist creature, are you talking about?!!!@@sptrco

Hi, Thanks for the kind words! I actually have an engineering background (though it was part of a multi-disciplinary degree), I then worked for a start-up for a bit and then did a master's in media. Cheers, Hugo

@@xunqianbaidu6917 I’m talking about EU finances, Ireland gives more than it receives

Thank you dear Ireland

Kyiv is already a large modern city. No one will give Russia further to occupy anything.

Thank you very much!

It won’t be managed well. It’ll turn out very similarly to Iraq in my opinion.

@@slimdiddyd But if they're an EU and potentially a NATO member I think it'll be an entirely different story

@@Bille994 they won’t be. The US state department has no intentions of actually honoring the promises made. The goal of the US in particular in supplying Ukraine is pretty much exclusively to weaken Russia in a cheaper fashion than a direct conflict with them. I actually don’t believe the US government even wants the war to end at all, with the way supplies have been drip fed instead of merely opening the floodgates at the outset.

agreed! an impressive, resourceful and resilient people

The Ukraine has many issues which will take decades to resolve. But yeah, granting them candidate status, cooperating and working together to eventually have them in the EU would be the best way forward. They need a real perspective (a future) and we could make use of their multiple dormant Ressources. Biggest issue is the general aging and demographic issues in the west meaning no to low growth economies. Frankly, theres a real probability that there just won't be enough (money) to go around.

Believe me, it can. The dynamics during the last few years is very positive and now during the war it's 3x, society wants to get rid of it very much, the problem is the corrupt judges. It's very hard to reform those, cause they are independent and basically outlawed. Once that's settled corruption will be nulled. Each case of corruption is widely discussed through public and makes people very angry. Ukraine now and 10 years ago are two different countries.

@@user-yd4to1tv1t Indeed. In other hand is veterans who fighting not for corrupted shit in suits. I believe soldiers will make them afraid to steal money. There's many questions to politicans right now, but there's an bigger enemy in the frontline so we can't do anything.

@basiledex2164 check your sources, it's russian propaganda, you dambass

@@badofi Yeah, it's difficult to work out, I've come up with figures as low as 17 million, and as high as 23 million. I reckon it is likely more toward the higher end, 22-23 million. But whatever figure it is, it isn't getting better for Ukraine. Every year it is likely dropping around half a million.

My prediction is if nothing major happens, next spring peace talks will begin.

​@@RafaelW8I would say the opposite. If something majore happens and it will fail for Ukraine then maybe

But Bakhmut (Artyomovsk) is now under Russian control and there are still attacks from Ukraine. So this is not the final view of this city.

You don't know what you're talking about 😂 Ukraine before the war was safer than streets of Bengal. Now the West is semi-calm and a year or two after the war the East will be as well.

@@ohajohaha nobody’s got the money in abundance for a hopeless nation please understand, Ukraine failed to deliver what west wanted besides Ukraine’s top leadership is corrupted. Ukraine is not any better than Pakistan Ukraine’s fate lies with RUSSIA

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