Once again, former President Trump has cut to the chase to break the current funding deadlock and come up with a brilliant new suggestion as to how money should be doled out to support the Ukraine:

Issue shares in the country!

Instead of giving or even loaning billions more in printed money to the Ukraine, Trump has proposed that the country be valued as of today and then every US taxpayer issued a special 'Ukraine-share' based on their individual contribution to the value of the latest tranche of funding granted to the Ukraine.

The beauty of this scheme is that given the monetary value of Ukraine today, the whole country will be owned by US taxpayers within a year.

A new Ukraine ETF (Exchange Traded Fund) will be created on the US stock market so that taxpayers will be able to sell their share certificates on the open market if they wish or keep them as an investment in the anticipation of a windfall profit from Ukraine's bright future as a western-style democracy, free of corruption, and beholden to no-one.

Trump's suggestion is not that far from the voucher scheme employed in post-Soviet-collapse Russia when vouchers were issued to citizens to give them an ownership stake in massive state-run firms that were about to be privatized.

The result of that initiative was the collapse of the Soviet economy, real hardship for most Russians and a few oligarchs becoming immensely rich as they gained control of state enterprises by buying up the vouchers from impoverished citizens for peanuts.

Sounds like another winner for Trump!