UPDATE ON UKRAINE: RESOURCES

HOW TO HELP

• Talk to your government officials about supporting US aid to Ukraine. See here for a list of reasons why this decision is economically, militarily, and diplomatically strategic.

• Peruse this “best list of organizations for aid to Ukraine,” from CNBC, and support them.

• Support the KSE Foundation at the Kiev School of Economics, a group of companies that includes a world-class private higher educational institution (KSE University), one of the largest analytical centers of Ukraine (KSE Institute) and a Charitable Foundation (KSE Foundation).

U.S. SPENDING ON UKRAINIAN AID

• Can the United States Equip Israel while Simultaneously Equipping Ukraine and Taiwan? Center for Strategic and International Studies 

• Defense Budgets and American Power, Brookings Institute

• What’s the Future for Aid to Ukraine? Center for Strategic and International Studies

• Shares of gross domestic product: Government consumption expenditures and gross investment, Federal: National defense, Federal Reserve Bank at St. Louis

• Total US aid to Ukraine from the beginning of the war in Feb 2022 though the summer of 2023 has been estimated at $75 billion, which is 0.3% of current US GDP; The Council on Foreign Relations

2023 PREDICTIONS FOR THE WAR ON UKRAINE

• Russia Is Settling In for a War of Attrition, American Foreign Policy Council 

• Ukraine braces for another winter of Russian attacks on power grid, Atlantic Council

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, RESILIENCE, AND REBUILDING UKRAINE

• Turning to regions and local governments to rebuild Ukraine, OECD

• Ukraine's "Army of Drones" tells CBS News $40 million worth of Russian military hardware destroyed in a month, CBS News

• The Source of Ukraine’s Resilience: How Decentralized Government Brought the Country Together, Council on Foreign Relations

• Ukraine’s resilience: How an administrative reform boosted social capital and trust in Ukrainian communities, Center for Economic Policy Research

• "Postwar reconstruction assistance and local governments in Ukraine," Roger Myerson, University of Chicago

INTERNATIONAL EFFECTS

• How Russia’s invasion of Ukraine tested the international legal order, Brookings Institute

• 'Speak plainly!': Putin has tense exchange with his spy chief – video, The Guardian

• The Return of the Isolationist Republicans, Paul A. Gigot, The Wall Street Journal