WHERE IS THE MONEY?
The Analyst

The West is very good at making promises but not so good at coughing up the money.
The availability of 1.5 million shells - and now another 300,000 that Estonia can acquire, required funding to the tune of $1.8 billion.
That’s a good deal. Yet Czechia which is brokering the deal, has received just about enough money to buy only 300,000 of the shells on offer.  However it’s been promised enough to buy twice that so far and is looking for the rest from donations. So where is the promised money? Nobody wants to admit who has and hasn’t paid. More to the point how is it so difficult to get hold of just $1.8 billion between some thirty+ countries? Some have offered nothing at all.
NATO is looking to take over the management of the Ramstein process and is looking for a $100 billion permanent fund to support Ukraine on an ongoing permanent basis.
Already, Hungary is refusing to take part and wants nothing to do with the matter.
Many countries are warning that the last thing needed is big numbers that actually can’t be financed and don’t have formalised support.
In the US it’s now become clear that the Speaker is unlikely to put any motion on the table when he said he would. Extreme pro-Russian Trumplicans like Marjorie Traitor Greene are threatening his position and he has barely ten day window to pass the motion before yet another recess for another two weeks starts on April 22nd. That again, is his own doing, designed to prevent any discharge motion of the existing senate-passed bill being voted on. Already at least another month has been added to any feasible aid package and they don’t start work until April 9! It’s deliberate and dysfunctional, it is a betrayal of every decent American.
Yet there’s good news said to be coming from the UK. An announcement on the use of Russian frozen funds for Ukraine weapons is set to be made any day.
The American Administration seems inclined to offer a similar deal not too far down the road.

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