What Sort Of Dirt Does Zelensky Have On The U.S., The U.K. etc., That He Can Float A Trillion Dollar Ask?

Seeing this story a month ago:

Biden lost temper with Zelenskyy in June phone call when Ukrainian leader asked for more aid
Biden had barely finished telling Zelenskyy he’d just greenlighted another $1 billion in military assistance when the Ukrainian president started listing all the additional help he needed.

—NBC News, October 31, 2022 

I thought "that sounds like every blackmail/extortion relationship I've ever seen in the movies."

And then, undeterred, President Zelensky came back this month and said he needs another $55 billion.

And now this via Newsweek (at 0:54 mark) "we're gonna need a trillion":

President Volodymyr Zelensky is hoping Ukraine will be chosen to host the 2030 World's Fair, despite its going to war with Russia. Zelensky said the fair in Odesa would prop up Ukraine as "a role model of reconstruction." pic.twitter.com/Jb9sHCfZRD

— Newsweek (@Newsweek) November 29, 2022

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November 18: "As U.S. Spending On The Russia - Ukraine War Approaches $100 Billion: Russia Delanda Est" 

Very related: 

UPDATED—Fundraising Lessons From Volodymyr Zelensky: Get In Front Of The World Economic Forum.... Ask For $5 Billion.... Per Month

Update below.

Original post:

From Fortune, May 23:  

Zelensky pitches Western leaders at Davos on the business opportunities that would come from giving Ukraine $5 billion a month

The World Economic Forum annual meeting opened in Davos, Switzerland on Monday morning, with as grim a message as the elite gathering has heard in many years.

In the three-day summit’s opening address, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky, dressed in his trademark wartime olive-green T-shirt, and projected on monitors from Kyiv, told about 1,000 CEOs and government officials that Ukraine needs $5 billion a month, beginning immediately, in order to stave off full-blown economic collapse—a collapse that would have deep global ramifications.

“The amount of work is enormous,” he said. “We have more than a half a trillion dollars in losses, and tens of thousands of facilities destroyed. We need to rebuild entire cities and industries.”

Yet rather than describing the dire situation as a crisis, Zelensky cast it as a potentially lucrative opportunity for Western countries and companies.

"Patronage" for investors 

 Zelensky said Ukraine would have a “special, historically significant model of rebuilding,” in which companies and countries could choose a specific region or mine to rebuild....

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