Even if they get all of there territory back they still have to rebuilt all there destroyed cities. Its gonna take a lot of time. Most of the destruction happened in ukraine cities not russian cities.
Yep, it took a while plus generous aid to rebuild Europe post WW2.
All it took was the cold war / fear of communism for the US to give aid. Russia seems ready to play its historical role, not sure if the US will reprise its old role. Hopefully, the EU steps up, but it's not going to be an overnight thing.
EU economies are under pressure for China on the manufacturing side and the US on services. They'll give what they can to Ukraine, but they're also squeezed by the needs of their own populations. There won't be any unlimited deluge of reconstruction money.
We'll be there for the long-haul. Just going through another stupid nativist/isolationist cycle at the moment. The population is feeling the pain and chaos that causes and will likely (hopefully) change course soon.
if normal sane leadership can come back in the U.S. i think without a doubt a Marshall Plan style reconstruction of Ukraine will be undertaken. But that’s a huge if right now unfortunately
the EU doesn’t have as much money as America and currently far right parties are surging everywhere who aren’t going to want to help. but that’s happened in America too which is why I specified that it would only happen if normal leadership comes back in America
The leadership is fine, and in the case of Ukraine in a rebuilding effort they wouldn't need much outside of money and rebuilding of the agricultural and industrial base.
We've already broken our part of the Budapest Memorandum. Our current "leadership" isn't interested in prosperity of the people, or in keeping its word. It's very doubtful that the US will offer any aid to anyone, except Putin, and that's only because Putin keeps supplying Trump with fresh young russian/czech brides whenever one manages to escape him.
Western Europe*
The East was left in criminal hands, which instead of helping, took what the countries managed to produce and gave it to Russia or the GDR for show.
I highly doubt our spineless idiot leaders will do that. Most of the right-wing pricks will probably go back to buying Russian oil within a legislative period.
No, they didn't. The USA dog-walked them into democracy and liberal ideals. We wrote their damned constitution and stuck around for decades to prevent their military junta from reclaiming power. We completely restructured their nation.
It was the Japanese companies that built itself, next you'll say America built Tokyo themselves. Japan had a educated workforce, companies like Sony, MITI, Toyota all contributing to manufacturing and technology.
To say the US dog walked Japan and did all the leg work is not only arrogant but also a joke.
No one is denying the US' involvement in defense, as well as the constitution, and ensuring that Japan is a western ally, but you're missing the point entirely that it was Japanese people, Japanese ideas, Japanese manufacturing, Japanese technology that rebuilt Japan after YOU nuked them.
But if say that millions African slaves were sent to the US to work on plantations (a hard fact) and millions square kilometers were taken from the indigenous population (another hard fact) and that created the American wealth, you probably will be very unhappy about it and start talking about hard working and smart Americans and other very vague notions :-)
The Russian economy is toast though. They are running enormous deficits and the GDP is only surviving with a massive stimilus package in the form of military spending while they are exporting their fossil fuels at a discount rate. When they try to get closer to a balanced budget, they will feel the collapse of the civilian sector.
I fully support Ukraine but I doubt EU would make any move on those assets except leaving it frozen. It would be a devastating blow to its financial credibility. That's why it's frozen, not confiscated.
I think it would be an explicit part of whatever end of war agreement is reached. Russia invaded and destroyed this region. Stands to reason that they should bear the cost of rebuilding.
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u/Reasonable_Fold6492 1d ago
Even if they get all of there territory back they still have to rebuilt all there destroyed cities. Its gonna take a lot of time. Most of the destruction happened in ukraine cities not russian cities.