minutemen of 1776, buying time for a regular army to reconstitute. since then, more than 13,000 ukrainian versus died on ukrainian soil defending their territorial integrity and sovereignty from russian aggression. america s support and ukraines 18 defacto war of independence has been critical in this regard. by analogy, the american colonies may not have prevailed against the british imperial might, without the help of transatlantic friends after 1776. in an egg co-of lafayette s organized assistance to general george washington s army and admiral john paul joan s navy, congress generously appropriated over $1.5 million in the mast five years in equipping security assistance to ukraine. these funds include the strength and ability to fight russian aggression. ultimately, ukraine is on the path to become a full security partner of the united states within nato.
territory, roughly equivalent to the size of texas. at that time ukraine s state institutions were on the verge of collapse. ukrainian civil society answered the challenge, they formed volunteer battalions of citizens including volunteer and medics. the crowd sourced funding for their own weapons, body armor, and supplies. they were the 21st century ukrainian and equivalent of our own minutemen buying time for a regular army to reconstitute. since then more than 13,000 ukrainians have died on ukrainian soil defending their territorial integrity and sovereignty from russian investigation. america supported in ukraine s own defect a war of independence has been critical in this regard. by analogy, the american colonies may not have prevailed against might against without the help of transatlantic fronts after 1776.
good to have you with me in the studio. welcome to isabel and jeffrey. lovely to see you again from distant parts. now, no taxation without representation the slogan of the american colonies after a sales tax imposed on them by the british parliament when they had no elected voice. the companies that will end up paying more tax as a result of the global corporate tax deal on the agenda for the finance ministers of the countries which form the g20 meeting in venice this weekend, may lack representation, but they have had the money to fund a skilled lobbying operation to try to influence the shape of this reform. you may not feel much sympathy for them or indeed for caribbean tax havens, but should we be more concerned about the impact on the poorer nations? simon, explain to me exactly what this proposed deal is. there are two pillars to this. the first one is new rules to force companies to pay taxes on the sales and profits they generate in the countries in which they operate, even