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[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

America spent fuck all on Ukraine in the entire history of its independence up until Euromaidan

Oh fr? Let's ask as-US-backed-as-US-backed-gets Kyiv Independent then: https://kyivindependent.com/how-us-foreign-aid-transformed-ukraine-through-the-years/

With the signing of a bilateral agreement between Ukraine and USAID in 1992, the agency started working alongside the Ukrainian government to build a competitive market economy, implement crucial social reforms [...] In over 30 years of working in Ukraine, USAID has played a key role in transforming numerous sectors [...] Dmytro Boyarchuk, the executive director of the Centre for Social and Economic Research (CASE Ukraine), said that Ukraine would not have been able to implement vital reforms without the support of international donors like USAID.

Obfuscate it as much as you want, pro-western Ukrainians themselves are telling everyone how maintaining a pro-western system depends on US funds.

The US didn't need to do a damn thing

Nice deflection but the fact is that it did, often and extensively. If the US didn't need to spend that money, then you shouldn't worry, pretty soon they might not be. Let's see how friendly that world is to the US and their chickenshit vassals in the UK et al, I yearn to see it. Most of all I yearn that y'all see it.