Buffett’s foundation, which focuses on humanitarian needs like agriculture, infrastructure and mine clearance, has contributed about $800 million to Ukraine since the start of the full-scale invasion, including $175 million in humanitarian demining.
  • ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Except he’s not funding a war, he’s funding the defense of a nation fighting for freedom and its right to exist.

    Ukraine didn’t get in this war as a pissing match with Russia. It was wrongly attacked and is a democracy defending itself. It’s had its children kidnapped and its civilians targeted. It will cease to exist if it loses. We don’t have a greedy capitalist funding an unjust war for profit as you’re trying to suggest. Helping Ukraine is the right thing to do. Refusing to help them will simply result in Europe fighting a better-resourced Russia later.

    • ByteJunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      We don’t have a greedy capitalist funding an unjust war for profit as you’re trying to suggest.

      Yet.

      • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        If there’s one thing billionaires are known for, it is, of course, giving billions to a war effort with absolutely zero strings attached. Totally.

        • ByteJunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          6 days ago

          I’m not arguing that these funds shouldn’t go to Ukraine. I’m arguing that no single individual should ever be allowed to have so much money that they are able to do this. They all need to be cut down to size ASAP.