Soros Demands $20 Billion From IMF For “Russia War Effort”
Forbes claims he’s worth $24 billion as of July. If its so urgently, desperately, necessary, why doesn’t he just pay for it himself?
Someone who saw Soros at a public event recently told us that he looked completely ga-ga.
Brilliant at investing, even before he was senile, Soros was lousy at public policy and politics, making himself unwelcome at home and in most coutries of the world, but especially in Russia, with his meddling and lecturing. This might well be his last eruption before stumbling off into oblivion.
This article originally appeared at Zerohedge.
Here are the highlights from what the Open Society founder has to say about the “existential” Russian threat in a just released Op-Ed:
Europe is facing a challenge from Russia to its very existence. Neither the European leaders nor their citizens are fully aware of this challenge or know how best to deal with it. I attribute this mainly to the fact that the European Union in general and the eurozone in particular lost their way after the financial crisis of 2008.
Getting warmer:
[Europe] fails to recognize that the Russian attack on Ukraine is indirectly an attack on the European Union and its principles of governance. It ought to be evident that it is inappropriate for a country, or association of countries, at war to pursue a policy of fiscal austerity as the European Union continues to do.
Even warmer:
All available resources ought to be put to work in the war effort even if that involves running up budget deficits
And hot, hot, hot:
[IMF] should provide an immediate cash injection of at least $20 billion, with a promise of more when needed. Ukraine’s partners should provide additional financing conditional on implementation of the IMF-supported program, at their own risk, in line with standard practice.
And there it is: the Russian “existential” war threat is, to Soros, nothing but an excuse to end the whole (f)austerity experiment (just don’t show Soros Europe’s latest record high debt load), and to return to its drunken sailor spending ways.
Ironically, this is precisely what we said would happen, only the globalist neo-cons were hoping the Ukraine civil war would become an all out war between Russia and Ukraine, thus unleashing the “spend your way to prosperity” Soroses of the world. For now, this plan has failed which is why ISIS was brought into the picture.
But it never hurts to try, eh George. And the one thing that is not mentioned is that the people who would gain the most from this latest IMF spending spree would be, you guessed it, billionaires like George Soros of course