The economic lifeline is expected to be disbursed by the end of the year.

The loan represents an extraordinary maneuver by Western nations to essentially force Russia to pay for the damage it is inflicting on Ukraine through a war that shows no sign of ending.

“Never before has a multilateral coalition frozen the assets of an aggressor country and then harnessed the value of those assets to fund the defense of the aggrieved party,” Daleep Singh, the White House’s deputy national security adviser for international economics, said on Wednesday.

The announcement comes after months of debate and negotiation among policymakers in the United States and Europe over how they could use $300 billion of frozen Russian central bank assets to support Ukraine.

Mr. Singh said that the United States would contribute $20 billion to the $50 billion loan and that the European Union, Britain, Canada and Japan would contribute the rest.

https://archive.is/HvbTC#selection-4743.0-4743.172

 

So $50B of funds that will most likely flow directly into the pockets of the MIC immediately prior to inauguration of the next President of the United States — thus ensuring YE bonuses and that NATO’s war in Ukraine will continue for as long as there are non-relevant soldiers available as fodder for this war machine.