By Jolly Green

Giving
aid to countries that buy their military equipment from Russia is the
same as giving that aid directly to Russia.

It’s
time to stop US and UK aid that is going to any countries who buy
arms from Russia and none NATO members.

If
countries can afford to buy billions of dollars of military equipment
and arms, they most certainly do not even need financial aid from the
US, UK, and EU.

Where
UK Aid Goes To, Top 10, 2015

1. India
   (₤150.4m)
   
2. Bangladesh
   (₤157.5m)
   
3. Afghanistan
   (₤199.6m)
   
4. Tanzania
   (₤199.7m}
   
5. Syrian
   Arab Republic (₤201.6m)
   
6. South
   Sudan (₤205.2m)
   
7. Sierra
   Leone (₤213.8m)
   
8. Nigeria
   (₤253.5m)
   
9. Ethiopia
   (₤ 334,1m)
   
10. Pakistan
    (₤351.4m)
    

The
UK pay’s aid twice, because besides giving direct aid to the
previously listed countries, it also is a major financier of the EU
Aid Fund. Contributing 0.17% of its Gross National Income to the EU
Aid Fund.

Where
US Aid Goes To, Top 10

1. 
   Tanzania
   ($531m)
   
2. 
   Ethiopia
   ($580m)
   
3. 
   Nigeria
   ($625m)
   
4. 
   Kenya
   ($625m )
   
5. 
   Jordan
   ($676m)
   
6. 
   Egypt
   ($1.557b)
   
7. 
   Iraq
   ($1,683b)
   
8. 
   Pakistan
   ($2.102b)
   
9. 
   Afghanistan
   ($2.327b)
   
10. 
    Israel
    ($3.075b)
    

The
UN boasts 193 members, and the U.S. provided economic assistance to
184 of them or 96% of the countries in the world. To be sure, the
amount of assistance drops significantly after the top 10 countries
or so. Of course, State Department officials might claim that some of
that money is to help the poor. But China has the second-largest
economy in the world—and is a major buyer of U.S. debt. So the US
borrows’ money from China in order to give them financial
assistance?

US
Pays 22.1% of NATO Budget; Germany 14.7%; 13 Allies Pay Less Than 1%.

Where
EU Aid Goes To, Top Ten, 2017

1. Somalia
   (€918.68m)
   
2. Pakistan
   (€923.12m)
   
3. China
   (€965.15m)
   
4. Ethiopia
   (€1.05b)
   
5. Afghanistan
   (€1.36b)
   
6. Iraq
   (€1.37b)
   
7. Morocco
   (€1.57b)
   
8. Syria
   (€1.73b)
   
9. India
   (€1.79b)
   
   
10. Turkey
    (€3.85b)
    

Currently,
Turkey is receiving aid from the EU the sum of €3.85b. They then
place an order and pay for Russian S-400 missile systems. Turkey has
agreed to pay Russia $2.5 billion US dollars for its missile defense
system. So it is, in fact, the EU who is paying for the S-400 to be
installed in Turkey.

Last
year, both China and India signed with Russia an intergovernmental
agreement for the procurement of four regiments of Russian-made
S-400s. Turkey will become the first NATO-member country to purchase
the system.

There
is the necessity to inflict sanctions immediately on Turkey, China,
and India. Among those sanctions must surely be the suspension of aid
from all sources as well. They cannot expect the US, UK, and EU to
pay for the Russian S-400 systems. Because that is exactly what is
happening.

Currently,
the US is paying around $150 billion annually for its airbases in
foreign countries; Turkey gets a nice slice of that.

So
isn’t it time to stop paying anything to China, Turkey, and India?
If the Russians want to fund them and to pay out billions for bases
let them do so, they will be brought to their knees sooner. They are
already suffering from an ever-increasing recession that is linked to
US sanctions.

Any
country supporting Russia and buying military equipment and arms from
them should be given the financial aid chop.

With
regards to Turkey, Erdogan has surely supplied enough evidence now to
prove, without any doubt, he cannot be trusted. He is obviously in
the pocket of Putin and will possibly render up US and EU aid
providers secrets about military hardware. You can be sure Putin will
be looking to acquire the equipment of the US, UK, and EU members to
copy design and technology of their advanced and superior equipment.

The
one thing we can be good in the knowledge that up to 10% of
everything Russia provides has a 10% inherent failure rate. So you
can be sure that also applies to the S-400 system.

Jolly Green, blowing the bugle for sensibility.

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