Zero Hedge: D.C. Think Tank Urges America To "Invest" In Zelensky's $1 Trillion Reconstruction Plan
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a video address on Tuesday estimated it will cost more than $1 trillion to rebuild his country following the Russian assault, now over nine months in.
If this number sounds absolutely shocking and unrealistic... it is, given this would be five times Ukraine's entire GDP.
"The reconstruction of our country will become the most momentous economic, technological, and humanitarian project of our time. Even now, we engage dozens of our partner countries to rebuild Ukraine," Zelensky said during his nightly video address Tuesday, translated by Newsweek.
"The total volume of work amounts to over a trillion dollars."
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WNU Editor: The Ukraine President is dreaming if he thinks the West is going to give him a check for $1 trillion. His only hope is that the West forces Russia to pay reparations of $1 trillion. Again. He is dreaming if that is going to happen.
So what is the bottom line?
When the war is finally over, Ukraine (or what is left of it) will find itself in debt to the West for hundreds of billions of dollars because of weapons purchases and loan guarantees.
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