I wonder where you got the information that the total amount of US aid to Ukraine amounted to more than $243 billion, and it was delivered in the form of cargo in less than 10 days? The current Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Medvedev, could only have come up with this after another binge. He makes similar statements from time to time.

I was able to find the following information on the Internet about the assistance provided to Ukraine in connection with the military attack on it by Russia:

The Washington Post wrote that since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the United States has allocated more than $66 billion in total aid to Ukraine. This is more than the US provides in aid to any other country. More than $43 billion was allocated to Kyiv as military aid, accounting for 65% of the total.
Washington provided $23.5 billion directly for weapons and equipment, $18 billion for other assistance (training, consulting, logistics and equipment), and $1.5 billion for grants and loans to other countries for the purchase of weapons and equipment. Another $20.5 billion was allocated to support Ukraine’s budget, and more than $2.6 billion was allocated to support displaced persons, refugees and other vulnerable populations in the country and abroad.
https://www.epravda.com.ua/rus/news/2023/08/7/702986/

American Defense Secretary Austin, during his current visit to Ukraine, said that the United States provided assistance to Ukraine in the amount of 42 billion, and the remaining 50 US allies allocated 36 billion. That is, total assistance to Ukraine amounted to $78 billion.
https://ukraina.ru/20231121/1051206971.html

Even the Russian Gazeta.RU, citing Pentagon information, reported that from February 24, 2022 to April 19, 2023, the volume of Washington’s military assistance to Kiev reached $35.4 billion. Moreover, since the beginning of Joe Biden’s presidency (2020), Ukraine has been allocated from the US budget of $36.1 billion in aid.
https://m.gazeta.ru/army/2023/04/19/16582849.shtml

But where is the fantastic 243 billion dollars for Ukraine, and in ten days?

The fact that Russia is at war in Ukraine with the entire Western world is fairy tales for Russians, who need to be given some kind of justification for why Ukraine was not captured in a few days, as planned in the Kremlin. Let me remind you that in the first two months, when the Western world was just watching the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and from their help Ukraine had only javelins and stingers to wage guerrilla warfare in the supposed rapid occupation of the territory of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Armed Forces inflicted such a major defeat on the invading Russian army that it the remnants were quickly withdrawn from central and northern Ukraine to avoid complete defeat.

After providing Ukraine with several units of Western modern military equipment, the Russian army was forced to leave part of the Kherson region along with its regional center, Kherson, and simply fled in panic from the Kharkov region, abandoning even serviceable armored vehicles. As a result, there was much more military equipment captured from the Russians than the entire West provided. Several Himars missile systems delivered to Ukraine turned the tide of the war. And this is the much-hyped “second army of the world”? What would happen if Russia started to fight with NATO, where there are hundreds of times more such complexes?

Ukraine is receiving military aid, but in very small quantities so far. But the Ukrainian Armed Forces fight not with numbers, not with the help of a “fiery shaft,” but with skill and ingenuity. Ukrainians were distinguished by this even during the Second World War. But on the other hand, if Ukraine was preparing for this war and had the current weapons for its defense, how would Russia justify itself? After all, if we compare the potential and resources of these two countries, then Russia is tens of times superior to Ukraine in all indicators. Where is such superiority seen on the battlefield? Or does Russia only know how to show its strength somewhere in Syria, Africa, where they fight almost with bows and arrows?

Besides, who is Ukraine at war with now, if Iran is providing military assistance to Russia, and North Korea recently supplied Russia with about a million shells for the war in Ukraine? This is despite the fact that the entire West has also pledged to supply Ukraine with a million shells, but deliveries are delayed because it is difficult for them to collect even that many of them.

Carbon emissions must be tackled at all levels. It is necessary to abandon cars with gasoline and diesel engines, because this is the call of the times. The climate on our planet is changing for the worse every year. If by 2035 there is still a need to temporarily use such engines, the plans will be adjusted. It's not a problem. The main thing is to get rid of them step by step. In any case, the refusal of which cars will occur unevenly in different countries due to a host of objective and subjective reasons. But we need to move in this direction in any case.

In my opinion, this is not surprising. The market is provided with money in its various forms as much as it needs. Moreover, cash and non-cash money have equal power in the financial world. In connection with the digitalization of money, the ratio of cash and non-cash money will continue to change towards an increase in the volume of non-cash money and a decrease in the total amount of cash. Money replaces goods that are in civil circulation. And what form this money will take is not significant.

I believe that the Dogecoin price peak has already passed and is unlikely to return even to the previous level of $0.7. Many people made money on this meme coin during the period of its rapid growth and under the influence of Elon Musk, but then many also lost due to its subsequent price drop.

Currently, Dogecoin is trading at seven cents and is very far from the price of one dollar. However, it should still rise after the Bitcoin halving next year, when the market is expected to be in a bullish period. It’s already difficult to predict anything here.

Many politicians, experts and all sorts of visionaries really believe that the hot phase of Russia’s war in Ukraine should end next year, 2024, around the summer. But they do not connect this with the depletion of Ukraine’s military potential and its inability to conduct military operations. The current Russian aggression against Ukraine has sobered the countries of Europe and the United States so much that they have come to the conclusion that Russia must suffer a military defeat in this war and will continue to provide Ukraine with all possible assistance. And Russia has no chance to resist NATO’s military potential. The countries of Europe, especially Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland, are clearly aware that in the event of a military defeat of Ukraine, they will be next for the Russian invasion and therefore they are ready to provide Ukraine with maximum assistance so as not to fight themselves.

As for the United States, they are already saying that by spending only three percent of their defense budget, they, through the hands of Ukrainians, weakened the military power of Russia, their main potential military rival, by at least half, without losing a single soldier and consider this a good investment of their resources.

At the same time, Russia's military power is far from unlimited. It is already supplying almost a century-old military equipment to the front, taking everything it can from its warehouses, and also purchasing weapons from North Korea and Iran and trying to buy back from the countries the military equipment and weapons it had previously supplied.

In addition, potential human meat for war in the form of Russian conscripts may also rebel and not go to slaughter and die for unknown ideals in another country.
Summer 2024 is almost here.

There would be no war if the people on the attacking side did not want to kill others. War is not a natural disaster and can always be avoided, including by appropriate attitude and actions against it.

For the second year now, the Russians attacking Ukrainians, trying to destroy Ukraine as a state, seize more foreign territories, and take away and appropriate the property of Ukrainians. All this time, about 70 percent of Russians actively support this war, support the continuous bombing and destruction of peaceful Ukrainian cities. Now in the occupied territories of Ukraine there are about 440 thousand Russian invaders who came to Ukraine to kill, rob and rape. It is not Putin who robs and kills, it is the Russian people who do it. Hence the conclusion - Russians want war and want to profit from war.

To stop such wars of conquest, it is necessary that the rest of the inhabitants of our planet harshly condemn such actions and prove this by their actions. If we do not do this, or if we run away from the war, as many here advise, the war will overtake us in other countries where we flee.

I don't understand Elon Musk. On the one hand, he warns people that if artificial intelligence is not regulated, it can get out of control and become a clear threat to the existence of all humanity. Here he is on the contrary, his words are given that if AI is not regulated, then it can become so useful that it can replace male professions.
AI can be useful in many areas, especially in the advancement of science. But at the same time, robots with AI will not be able to completely replace the participation of people, and control and certain restrictions on their activities are needed in any case. AI should not be entrusted with those areas of activity where it can cause global harm to humanity.

In the war against Ukraine, Putin’s Russia wins individual battles only due to numerical superiority. Storming the small town of Bakhmut for nine months, the Russians lost about ten times more of their troops than the Ukrainians, but still captured it. Now they are trying to do the same with another settlement, Avdeevka, while suffering colossal losses in manpower and equipment.

At the same time, the Russian command understands perfectly well that regular, already poorly trained, reinforcements will survive until the second battle at most. Therefore, minimal attention is paid to medical and food supplies, as well as to the equipment of soldiers. Ukrainian drones sometimes record how Russians finish off their wounded on the battlefield and take away their weapons and even clothes. According to intercepted conversations, Russians complain that they have nothing to eat in the trenches and are forced to eat mice and rats, which are abundant in the fields in the fall.
If, for various reasons, soldiers refuse to go into senseless “meat” attacks, that is, without the support of armored vehicles and artillery, or leave their positions and retreat, they are simply killed by their own or barrage detachments.
Therefore, a large population in the hands of a dictator is strength and advantage.

https://nv.ua/amp/perehvaty-rossiyskih-voennyh-komandovanie-rasstrelivaet-dezertirov-zapisi-razgovorov-50369275.html

In preparation for the invasion of Ukraine, Russia had already planned in advance to steal Ukrainian grain reserves and create an artificial food problem for the residents of Ukraine.

When Russian tanks crossed the Ukrainian border on February 24, 2022, they deliberately targeted grain-rich areas and food production infrastructure, according to a new report from global human rights law firm Global Rights Compliance (GRC).

GRC discovered that the Russian defense contractor began purchasing grain trucks, as well as three new 170-meter bulk carriers, as early as December 2021. This indicates a plan to steal Ukrainian food “on an unprecedented scale.” Russia began seizing Ukrainian farms less than a week after the invasion and at its peak was exporting 12,000 tons of grain daily from all occupied territories. The market value of grain stolen in Ukraine is about $1 billion a year. According to GRC, many private Ukrainian grain companies were forcibly included in the Russian state operator.
In this regard, Russian dictator Putin may receive another warrant for his arrest from the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

According to The Independent, due to the war that broke out in Ukraine, Russia caused a global food crisis that affected millions of people, since before the war Ukraine was the world's largest producer of wheat.

https://tsn.ua/ru/svit/planirovali-golod-v-ukraine-putin-mozhet-poluchit-novyy-order-na-arest-ot-gaagi-2451979.html

You, like many on this forum, are too optimistic about the safe development of artificial intelligence. Unfortunately, everything is much more serious. We are already at least the fifth human civilization on planet Earth. All previous civilizations died mainly due to the high development of technology and technologies, which were ultimately turned against humans.

On our planet, 30 thousand years ago, nuclear weapons were used and there were even human battles in near space on appropriate aircraft. Our last civilization is approximately 12 thousand years old. And we are confidently approaching our point of no return. If a person doesn’t press the fatal button, who knows, maybe artificial intelligence will do it for him.

The US Senate on the evening of November 15 approved a bill to extend government funding. Prior to this, the corresponding document was supported by members of the House of Representatives. The previously agreed upon temporary funding for the government and the prevention of a shutdown, defined by the bill in October, expired today, November 17.

Today in the news there was a message that Biden has already signed this law, which provides for two-stage financing of the government, which will prevent the suspension of its work (shutdown). Therefore, all problems have been resolved for now.

In its first phase, the bill provides funding through Jan. 19 and includes appropriations for agriculture, military construction and veterans' affairs, energy and water. The second phase, which is proposed to be extended until February 2, will include funding for the remaining government agencies.

The fact that the Ethereum coin has existed since 2015 and still ranks second in capitalization after Bitcoin, and its network is constantly developing, very clearly indicates that Ethereum is not a scam. On the contrary, many have high hopes for it in terms of growth both in price and in popularity. Moreover, there is even an opinion that this coin may eventually surpass Bitcoin. In any case, I prefer to hold more Ethereum now.

Of course, we are only at the beginning of the transition to renewable energy sources. And soon there will be many types of them, some of which we don’t even know exist right now. Previously, oil and gas corporations made every effort and committed many crimes to prevent alternative energy sources from appearing. But now the situation is different: climate change and the reduction of fossil fuels are simply pushing humanity to actively search for new sources of energy.

Artificial intelligence will be used with bad intentions in any case and there is nothing we can do about it. The example you gave concerns individual people, although there may be many such examples. But artificial intelligence, if it improves and this process gets out of human control, threatens the further existence of humanity. This is much more catastrophic than individual harm to a specific person. The development of artificial intelligence must be placed under strict control from the very beginning, even if it seems that it will not think of destroying humanity. But why take such a risk?

Israel helped Ukraine very little after the full-scale attack on it by Putin’s army, which is why the Israeli government has been criticized more than once by the Ukrainian government.

Russia knew about the upcoming Hamas attack on Israeli territory and  provide this terrorist organization with all possible assistance for this reason. Putin needed to divert the attention of the world community from his unsuccessful war with Ukraine, as well as weaken military assistance to Ukraine from the United States and European countries.

But I don’t think that the Hamas leaders, if they are still alive, are happy that they followed Russia’s lead and attacked Israel. Now the IDF is destroying Hamas and has already stated that Hamas has lost control of the Gaza Strip. Russia used Hamas to its advantage and now Hamas is being completely destroyed. Hamas apparently counted on military support from other Islamist states, but this calculation did not materialize.

Progress already lies in the fact that you recognize at least two ships sunk by the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the Russian Black Sea Fleet. But where did this Russian fleet go, not only off the coast of Ukraine, but also from the occupied ports of the Crimean peninsula? If Russian warships are not sunk or damaged as a result of attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, then where have they mostly gone? Is it scary to keep them within range of missile and drone attacks from Ukraine?

No matter what you say here, for the second year now, relatively small Ukraine has been resisting Russia’s military aggression, and it is Ukrainians who are fighting on the fronts against the invaders. And the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, the missile cruiser Moskva, was sunk by two Ukrainian-made Neptune missiles.
https://prm.ua/ru/opublykovano-vydeo-puska-ukraynskykh-raket-neptun-kotor-e-potopyly-rossyyskyy-kreyser-moskva/

I also advise you to see how the newest Russian launch vehicle Askold burns after a direct hit by three SCALP missiles. The video shows how large pieces of this ship flew off over a considerable distance. Is it listed as intact or slightly damaged?
https://24tv.ua/ru/raketnyj-udar-po-askoldu-v-seti-pojavilos-video-verojatnogo-popadanija-po-korablju-24-kanal_n2426716

You, I see, are also not writing from the trenches near Avdeevka. There, the Russian army has been grinding to death from poorly organized attacks for more than a month. Putin, if he is still alive, needs to show at least some victory on the Ukrainian front at the end of the year before the upcoming elections. Now there are about 440 thousand Russian occupiers in the occupied territories of Ukraine, and it is impossible to take even the small town of Avdiivka. Need your help. After all, this territory has long been included in the Russian Federation

In any case, we should not rely only on our computers and other similar devices to store our secret keys to cryptocurrency wallets. I am a proponent of having printed information on paper. Storing in Google's cloud storage is also not entirely reliable, since starting from the new year they set a two-year period after which, if the account was inactive, all information in the cloud drive is erased. Apparently, we need to simultaneously use different methods for storing our keys. But it’s still impossible to predict everything, and many will lose access to their wallets, including because of the war.

After Russia withdrew from the “grain agreement,” about a hundred merchant ships loaded with agricultural products had already left the ports of Ukraine. This opportunity was ensured by the fact that Ukraine, practically without its own military fleet, is now very actively sinking the Russian Black Sea fleet, which was the only threat to commercial shipping in the Black Sea.During the full-scale war with Russia, that is, since February 2022, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have already destroyed at least nine and damaged at least 16 Russian warships.

Thus, on November 4, 2023, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked a shipyard in Russian-occupied Kerch with SCALP aircraft missiles. The target was the Russian corvette Askold, which was located there - the newest small missile ship of Project 22800 Karakurt, which was supposed to be commissioned by the Russian Black Sea Fleet in December 2023. It could carry up to 8 Caliber or Onyx missiles, and therefore its capabilities for delivering long-range strikes corresponded to the level of a frigate.

On November 10, 2023, near the village of Chernomorskoye on the Tarkhankut Peninsula in the occupied Crimea, seaborne drones of the Main Intelligence Directorate destroyed two Russian landing boats: the older Project 1176 Akula and the new Project 11770 Serna. At the time of the attacks, they were carrying a crew and loaded with armored vehicles, in particular, BTR-82. After the drone attack, the Shark sank immediately, the Chamois sank a little later.

https://nv.ua/ukraine/events/katera-serna-korvet-askold-korabli-minsk-i-saratov-i-submarina-kakie-korabli-rf-unichtozhila-ukraina-50366629.html

In my opinion, we, as citizens of a particular state, cannot choose the importance between agriculture and the presence of oil fields. Developed agriculture in the state depends almost entirely on soil fertility and climate in the country. Oil production and profit from its sale depend on whether there are explored oil deposits in the country. But if the country has large oil reserves, then with the currency proceeds from its sale, it is quite possible to buy agricultural products, which in terms of volume are much cheaper. Therefore, the presence of oil is still preferable for the economic power of the state.