Friday, March 1, 2024

How Much To Rebuild Ukraine? Half-a-Trillion Is The Opening Bid

Is it any wonder the biggest of big money wants in?

From Kyiv's Liga.net:

Rebuilding Ukraine could cost $500 billion as experts tally repairs
How much money is needed to rebuild Ukraine after the war? The World Bank estimates the current cost at $486 billion

The World Bank, together with the European Commission, the UN and the government of Ukraine, increased the assessment of Ukraine's needs for post-war recovery. It now stands at $486 billion, according to the third Third Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment (RDNA3)....

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If interested see also:

Big Money: BlackRock and JPMorganTo Set Up Ukraine Reconstruction Bank (BLK; JPM)

"Zelensky Says Rebuilding Ukraine Will Cost More Than $1 trillion; Talks To BlackRock About The Opportunity (BLK)"

More On BlackRock's Plans For Ukraine

"Marketing Ukraine's Reconstruction To Fuel The War"
If you want in on the action, get to know this woman....

It's possible I am being too cynical as to the motives behind this call to action, that this is truly altruistic. Possible but not probable.
 
This looks like buying a place at the table for European companies to nail down a quarter-trillion euros worth of reconstruction contracts and any ancillary power/control/influence that might be available for the taking. 

And finally, let's cut to the chase:

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

....“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....