The End of the War in Ukraine Will Trigger the Division of a $700–800 Billion “Pie”

Facebook Post by Anna Bon

December 29, 2025

But it could also trigger a European Renaissance.

For Europe, this would mean lower energy prices, rising investment, and export growth.

This is not a slogan.These are conversations already taking place in Washington, Brussels, and major global financial centers.

The question is not whether the money will exist.The real questions are:

• What will it be spent on?

• Who will become its beneficiaries?

• And how will ordinary Ukrainians feel it — not in words, but in income?

We Have Been Told the Same Thing for 35 Years

“Believe. Work. Be patient. A little more — and things will get better.”

We believed.We worked.We survived the war (and I truly hope this horror will soon end).

Now come the honest questions:How much longer are we supposed to “grind”?And what will we ultimately receive?

• Salaries that again fail to keep up with prices?

• Or a share in what will be built?

This Is No Longer Just About Aid to Ukraine

Today, the discussion is about:

• new power plants

• AI data centers

• large-scale manufacturing

• logistics

• infrastructure of the future economy

These are assets that generate income for decades.

The key question is simple:

Will Ukrainians once again merely work for these assets — or stand next to them — or will they own a share?

Not minimum wages.Not one-time assistance.But ownership. Participation. Profit.

Imagine Ukraine as a Startup

Not a Soviet factory.Not a bureaucratic machine.But a startup that survived where corporations would not.

This “startup” had:

• no venture capital

• no stable market

• no guarantee it would even open tomorrow

Why?

Because for four years, our shared startup — Ukraine — operated under shelling and blackouts.Those years were operating at a loss.But the team did not abandon it.They invested themselves.

Who Kept This Startup Alive?

• The military — so the “company” (Ukraine) could exist at all

• Volunteers — where the state could not keep up

• Doctors — without pauses or weekends

• Businesses — paying taxes when it was terrifying and unprofitable

• Scientists and engineers — who did not leave

• IT specialists — sustaining currency, infrastructure, reputation

• Teachers and parents — raising the next generation under sirens

• Athletes, artists, musicians — so the world could see and hear us

Yes, diplomats and politicians did a lot.

But ordinary people worked at a loss.Without guarantees.Without dividends.

And now we have reached a new stage.

The Next-Level Question

I recently wrote that Ukraine must stop asking and start building —energy, infrastructure, data centers, real assets of the future economy.

But there is a deeper question:

If this startup survived.If the country endured and becomes stronger.If recovery funds emerge — for infrastructure, energy, data, healthcare, defense, education —

Who should receive the dividends of this success?

Only banks?Only foreign funds?Only a narrow circle of operators and politicians?

Or everyone who held the system together when it was unsafe and unfashionable?

Simply put: Who will own these billions and these real assets?

A Telling Example from the United States

Recently, a remarkable story unfolded in Louisiana.

Entrepreneur Graham Walker sold his family manufacturing company Fibrebond for approximately $1.7 billion to energy giant Eaton.

But the deal itself wasn’t the most important part.

Walker set one condition:

15% of the sale price ($240 million) went to employees — even those without shares.

Around 540 people received money.On average — $443,000 per person.

Fibrebond was not a unicorn.It was a factory founded in 1982 that survived fires, crises, and hard years.

Why did Walker do this?

Because he believed the company’s success belonged to the team.

And it worked.

People:

• paid off mortgages

• invested in their children’s education

• started their own businesses

The small town of Minden (12,000 residents) received a powerful economic impulse.

Back to Ukraine

Today, the world openly states: Ukraine’s recovery will require $700–800 billion.

It is critical to understand:

• this is not “money tomorrow”

• and not “aid for consumption”

It is a 10–20 year process:

• energy

• industry

• technology

• healthcare and education

• security

• infrastructure

Assets that will generate income for decades.

The Financial Times writes that peace could become the beginning of a European renaissance — if it is honest and sustainable.

But the core issue is not only money.It is participation.

If in the U.S. an owner recognized the contribution of his team,why should Ukrainians not be beneficiaries of the country they kept alive during the war?

If We Were All One Team

If recovery is the scaling of what we preserved together —how do we structure it?

There are working global models:

• Alaska — direct citizen payments from an oil fund

• Norway — a generational fund with transparent governance

• Singapore — Temasek, the state as an investor

• Kuwait, Chile, Canada — discipline and clear rules

This is not about handouts.Not about slogans.

It is about whether Ukrainians can become beneficiaries of the future economy.

What If the Recovery Fund Was Also a Participation Mechanism?

• military — not only benefits, but ownership and annual income

• volunteers — not medals, but financial participation

• business — not new taxes, but returns for risk

• science and IT — not emigration, but capitalization of knowledge

• children of war — not pity, but starting capital

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What if the state finally said to its people:

You are not expendable. You are shareholders.

Then the key question would not be“how much will they give,”but how do we structure this so Ukraine becomes a country-asset, not a permanently ‘recovering’ one.

This Is Not About Parties

Not About ElectionsNot About Power

This is about the model of the country after the war.

Questions for You

• Should people who lived through the war be co-owners of the future?

• Direct dividends to citizens, or investment into pensions, healthcare, education?

• What should be fixed in law first: protection of the fund’s capital or a ban on political control?

• How do we ensure recovery does not become another round of asset stripping?

• Are we ready to think not as victims, but as co-founders?

Because if Ukraine endured, it must become a countrythat generates income for its people.

Otherwise, this will not be recovery, but yet another чужий бізнес on our land,and yet another anti-people division of assets.