“No country has spent as much on Ukraine’s defense as the U.S. Ukraine has received a total of over $113 billion in American military, economic, and financial aid,” wrote John Rossomando in an Aug. 30 article published in the journal 19FortyFive, citing a recent report by CSIS. “This marks the largest flow of aid to a belligerent nation since the U.S. Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act in 1941,” he added, which amounted to $51 billion in inflation-adjusted dollars.
In 1941 that money helped bring victory over Fascism, but what is it buying today?
According to Dmitri Kovalevich, the special correspondent in Ukraine for Al Mayadeen English, Ukraine is being turned into a giant slave labor camp. The Kiev regime, presented as fighting for “freedom and democracy” in Washington, London and Brussels, has banned all men between the ages of 18 and 60 from leaving the country. A bill has been introduced in the unicameral legislature, Verkhovna Rada, “that provides for the conscription of forced labor of all those who have not been conscripted to the armed forces,” Kovalevich writes. “Formally free citizens who already cannot legally leave the country due to wartime restrictions will now also be subjected to forced labor.”
“There is also already a serious shortage of trained personnel in Ukraine,” he writes further. “Hundreds of thousands of factory workers, skilled tradespeople, railway workers, drivers, and other equipment operators in agricultural industries, and on and on have been conscripted into the army. Many of them have died or been seriously injured in the futile attempts of Ukraine’s leaders and their Western patrons to storm the well fortified defensive lines of the Russian armed forces.”
