Who really benefits from Ukrainian aid?

Ukrainians are fighting and dying on their own soil, while the U.S. arms industry enjoys huge profits and western Europe pays hard currency to the Russian invader.

In a public relations fantasy exercise, European gas companies claim they will refuse to comply with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s demand to be paid in rubles, but instead buy his oil using euros, writes Scott Taylor. Image courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

June 6, 2022

OTTAWA—In the see-saw wave of information and disinformation emanating from the conflict in Ukraine, it has been extremely difficult to accurately assess what is actually happening on the ground—let alone predict the eventual outcome. The early expectations by western military analysts were tha...

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