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Former top [[Reagan administration]] economic official [[David Stockman]] commented on the [[Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act]]:

Former top [[Reagan administration]] economic official [[David Stockman]] commented on the [[Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act]]:

[[File:67aafc7c2030272b750cc8d0.jpg|left|300px|thumb|[[Russian]] troops discover a USAID office after liberating Kurakhovo.<ref>https://t.me/geopolitics_live/40432</ref>]]

[[File:67aafc7c2030272b750cc8d0.jpg|right|300px|thumb|[[Russian]] troops discover a USAID office after liberating Kurakhovo.<ref>https://t.me/geopolitics_live/40432</ref>]]

{{quotebox-float|“What in the world is wrong with these blithering knuckleheads?...Last week’s action brings already spent and promised Ukraine weapons and aid to $54 billion...For crying out loud, Ukraine’s [[GDP]] last year was just $155 billion...At the current run rate, they have spent 120% of Ukraine’s GDP on its own destruction, and with no end in sight...It is no wonder, therefore, that the pretentious little peacock who parades as the country’s president is now telling the world that the war will go on until the last Ukrainian soldier is dead and [[Washington, DC|Washington’s]] endless bounty is finally used up...There is no other way to say it: Washington has empowered a madman, who is so smitten by his own strutting on the world stage that rationality itself has become the victim”.<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/stockman-perpetual-debt-perpetual-war</ref>}}

{{quotebox-float|“What in the world is wrong with these blithering knuckleheads?...Last week’s action brings already spent and promised Ukraine weapons and aid to $54 billion...For crying out loud, Ukraine’s [[GDP]] last year was just $155 billion...At the current run rate, they have spent 120% of Ukraine’s GDP on its own destruction, and with no end in sight...It is no wonder, therefore, that the pretentious little peacock who parades as the country’s president is now telling the world that the war will go on until the last Ukrainian soldier is dead and [[Washington, DC|Washington’s]] endless bounty is finally used up...There is no other way to say it: Washington has empowered a madman, who is so smitten by his own strutting on the world stage that rationality itself has become the victim”.<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/stockman-perpetual-debt-perpetual-war</ref>}}

On August 3, 2022 the ''[[Washington Post]]'' reported that Zelensky was withholding aid for civilian humanitarian relief and infrastructure repair  intended by the [[United States Congress]] for cities.  The ''Washington Post'' accused Zelensky of turning Ukraine into an [[autocracy]] and trying to stymie mayors and potential political rivals by withholding the billions of dollars that the U.S. Congress appropriated.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/03/ukraine-political-divisions-zelensky-mayors/</ref>

On August 3, 2022 the ''[[Washington Post]]'' reported that Zelensky was withholding aid for civilian humanitarian relief and infrastructure repair  intended by the [[United States Congress]] for cities.  The ''Washington Post'' accused Zelensky of turning Ukraine into an [[autocracy]] and trying to stymie mayors and potential political rivals by withholding the billions of dollars that the U.S. Congress appropriated.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/03/ukraine-political-divisions-zelensky-mayors/</ref>