MOSCOW — The United States has delivered 50 ventilators to Russia as part of a $5.6 million humanitarian donation to help the country cope with the pandemic.
I can’t help it. This just feels a little gross.
Just 50? Were there stolen mail ballots stuffed in the boxes? Were there really ventilators in those boxes? Payments from Kushner to his overlords? This doesn’t pass the smell test.
“Russia has reported more than 317,000 infections and more than 3,000 deaths. Officials have scrambled to secure ventilators and other essential supplies as COVID-19 spread.”
This virus is spreading faster than GRU malware in Florida voting machines.
Just an observation but the USA, Russia and Brazil are the top three countries for cases of COVID-19. Each of these countries is led by someone who denied and diminished the seriousness of the pandemic in its early stages.
It’s really disturbing to me that this tangerine tyrant has so corrupted my government that I can’t look at humanitarian aid without skepticism. Back when we more-or-less agreed as a nation that Russia was a bad actor in the world and resistance to their global scheming was The Right Thing To Do, I would see this as “okay, don’t blame the Russian people for the actions of their corrupt government.”
Now that my own government (the administration, at least, and a good portion of Congress as well) is corrupt and seemingly aligned with Russia at every juncture? My eye, it is jaundiced…
“We have nine factories that are throwing out ventilators at numbers that nobody can believe. There’s not been anything like that since the Second World War.”
— Dr. Cadet Toadglans mit der Bone Spurs, master tactician
This shell game with ventilators fascinates me. Consider:
• The number of ventilators shipped by Russia to the US is obviously secret (unless, of course, somebody with better research skills than I can find it).
• The phantom ventilators were made by a Russian company that is under US sanctions.
• There is disagreement about who paid for them. One US official said the government paid for them outright. However, the Russian Foreign Ministry said half the cost was borne by Russia’s sovereign wealth fund RDIF, which is currently under international monetary sanctions.
• The “Aventa-M” ventilators were produced by the Ural Instrument Engineering Plant (UPZ). UPZ is part of a holding company called Concern Radio-Electronic Technologies (KRET), which is also under US sanctions and which itself a unit of Russian state conglomerate Rostec, which is under international monetary sanctions.
• The “Aventa-M” ventilators were linked to two deadly hospital fires and are now banned for use in Russia.
• But not to worry, the Russian ventilators were put out of service as soon as they touched the tarmac at JFK while their use was “under review.”
So far, so good. But it also raises some questions? (Superior Researcher Alert!)
• Is the US sending back the “Aventa-M” ventilators? If not, why not?
• Just as the COVID-19 virus has taken its show on the road — “If it’ll play in Peoria ….” — the US is slated to send 8,000 ventilators abroad. The ventilators the US will send cost $5,000 to $30,000, depending on the model. Who’s making them? More importantly: Who’s paying for them? (Everybody gets one wild stab, er, guess.)
“In a certain way, I’d like them to be donations. I really do. I think it’s good will. It’s hard to say you have to pay us in order to save people from dying.”
— Humanitarian, philanthropist, superhero,sentimentalistand all-around good guy Dr. Cadet Toadglans mit der Bone Spurs
check out the story at the Daily Beast titled…“Trump’s Been Playing a Ventilator Shell Game With Russia—and Moscow Mocks Him”
Are the ventilators surplus to our anticipated needs assuming a new outbreak this Fall of the virus? And I want to see an analysis by an honest organization. There are several — perhaps a group led by Johns Hopkins Public Health School.
Assuming we have a surplus assuming a new outbreak later this year, I would send them to developing countries with the ability to utilize them in South America and Africa. Russia is capable of Producing them on an emergency basis or purchasing them on the international market.
Not the first time. Can we send the full 53, soon?
did they announce an investigation into the bidens?