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Ukraine, Russia and the U.S.

Lectures in History

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The Cost of the War in Ukraine

Ukraine now has bonafide military partners it's not necessarily a part of NATO but it's getting billions upon billions of military assistance from the US and many other countries. The war is being fought all over the country the bombs are dropping on cities in the west every family of course is affected. 12 to 13 million refugees are internally displaced people that would be like one third of Americans losing their homes either within the US or fleeing to Canada, Mexico or others. It's sort of unfathomable I think when you put it in those in those local terms the cost to the Ukrainian economy has clearly been immense.

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