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Don't forget that Ukraine has a pretty good donation website setup if that happens to be a cause you are willing and have the financial resources to give to.
by _DeadFred_ 2y ago
Don't forget that Ukraine has a pretty good donation website setup if that happens to be a cause you are willing and have the financial resources to give to.
- Jordan-117 2y agoWonder how long until donating to UKR gets you put on some sort of government list.
- amarcheschi 2y agohttps://u24.gov.ua/ https://u24.gov.ua/ You can choose the allocation of your donation, defence, or if you'd rather donate to other causes, humanitarian aid, demining, rebuilding (...) A few months ago in my city, an ambulance shelled by Russians in kharkiv was shown. It was quite destroyed, and chock full of holes. It was quite moving
- myko 2y agoThanks for the link, glad to donate
- simonswords82 2y ago@dang perhaps you could pin https://u24.gov.ua/ https://u24.gov.ua/ to the top of the comments? Either way, I've donated 50 bucks; seems like a great way to show support on a difficult day for Ukraine.
- VerminOctopus1 2y agoAn explicit endorsement of Ukraine seems a little weird as an official stance from HN.
- simonswords82 2y agoWeird in what way?
- amarcheschi 2y agoI guess he's saying that hn is "non tilted/neutral" toward any political stance, and as such pinning a comment to a Ukrainian donation gov website could be seen as "supporting" someone
- progbits 2y agoNeutrality is bullshit for cowards who want to profit from both sides. Neutrality is siding with the aggressor.
- amarcheschi 2y agoAgree
- lukan 2y agoSounds good, but if you want activism, then maybe a venture capitalist site is not the best place to organize it.
- amarcheschi 2y agoYou just need to spin it the good way... Donating to ukraine. Now, with ai
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- broadsidepicnic 2y agothanks, I once again donated a bit even though cannot much. I just feel for the guy, and for the country, too. What a friggin mess we've left them
- croisillon 2y agojust wired some bucks for defence, thanks
- odshoifsdhfs 2y agofuck it, just donated 500 (there goes my drinking money for the rest month! probably helped I am drunk right now) edit: just realized it is the 2nd. hard month ahead I guess!
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- akmarinov 2y agoIf Ukraine falls - it’ll absolutely get sanctioned. It’ll be Russia in all but name. Same with Afganistan - the government the US set up fell and the Taliban took over - of course they get sanctioned.
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- qweqwe14 2y agoAre there actual, living people thinking that donating to Ukraine will influence anything? These donations might as well be a margin of error compared to government funding, aid packages and what not. The Ukraine is simply too small of a country to actually win a war against Russia, all that these aid packages are doing is prolonging the war that Ukraine cannot win. It's like saying "if only Germany had <insert Wunderwaffe> it would've won WWII". At some point they were going to run out of men anyway (they did). Sort of like how Ukraine will eventually run out of men if they continue.
- Muromec 2y agoUkraine just recently got at parity in artillery with russia, which is why they are pushing this ceasefire and this is why Zelenskyy is walking away from it just like that.
- MindTooth 2y agoThanks for the reminder. Donated some for defense.
- IAmNotACellist 2y agoDo you not know how many of your tax dollars were already given to Ukraine?
- Muromec 2y agoIt's an interesting exercise in basic math and knowing your tax code. My bet is under 5 bucks for the whole last 3 years.
- Barrin92 2y agoIf you want the actual number, about 13 bucks per month per taxpayer[1]. So about what, three to four coffees a month to protect 40 million free people from defending themselves from autocracy? [1]https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1197958571 https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1197958571
- hashstring 2y agoYou took the $165 / 12 and arrived at 13 bucks per month per taxpayer. But if you had read the rest of the transcript, you’d arrive at this beautiful part: “The numbers we came up with, the $165 per person and the $11.25 per person, aren't really real because they are based on this idea that everything we sent to Ukraine and everything we sent to Israel came from tax revenue, and that's just not the case. MCMANUS: The revenue that goes in is not necessarily connected to how the government is actually budgeting. What we're paying in taxes just does not have to match what we spend. So the whole exercise is sort of irrelevant. GONZALEZ: It's irrelevant because of one big elephant in the room, which is deficit spending. We spend more than we bring in as a country.” And from who is the US borrowing most of their money from? It currently owes China roughly 850 billion USD, and it has to pay interest on this. And how does it pay this interest? Either it borrows more, growing the problem, or it is a portion of your taxes going straight to China <3.
- Barrin92 2y ago>And from who is the US borrowing most of their money from? The American people, largely. China owns roughly 3% of America's debt. The overwhelming majority of American debt is hold domestically (and thus eventually returns to US citizens) But if the 13 bucks weren't precise enough for you, the 4% interest America pays on 10 year bonds I suppose bring the monstrous bill up another 50 cents per decade, truly a game changer when it comes to defending the free world.
- just-ok 2y ago[flagged]
- akmarinov 2y agoSure does suck that Russia invaded Ukraine and caused this loss of human life, right?
- just-ok 2y agoPretty sure Ukraine shelled its own people for ~6 years before that.
- akmarinov 2y agoPretty sure Russia invaded Georgia before that in preparation for invading Ukraine
- _DeadFred_ 2y agoPretty sure there were UN monitors and reports. Funny the people that make this claim never sight those reports.
- redmajor12 2y ago[flagged]
- neonsunset 2y agoAs a Ukrainian, I'd like to caution that perhaps there are two funds you may want to consider over UA24 - one of which has full transparency and spotless track record (there have been concerns over UA24) where-as another used to be a political activist for a long time turned media personality turned biggest fund who directly sources thousands of FPV drones (more than 150k at this moment) and has the best proven quality of the "produce": - "Come Back Alive" fund https://savelife.in.ua/en/ https://savelife.in.ua/en/ which have full transparency, checks and balances - "Sternenko Community" which until recently was just a set of bank accounts, which directly funds strike drone production https://x.com/sternenko/status/1894360283595800643 https://x.com/sternenko/status/1894360283595800643 I donate monthly to the latter (alongside donations towards my ex-colleagues and acquaintances serving at the front lines and supply, but those are usually private), but I think western audience may be more comfortable with the former. Either way we appreciate your support in this tragedy of a war. Thank you.