Like so many people in the West, Andrew Forrest was at once horrified and enraged by Russia’s brutal war of aggression against Ukraine.
Just weeks after the full-scale invasion started, Forrest – one of Australia’s richest people – started to corral support for what he said should become a fund of at least $100 billion, targeting Ukraine’s reconstruction, and focused on green infrastructure. In the aftermath of the biggest war in Europe since 1945, Forrest saw it as a chance to replicate the post-Second World War Marshall Plan of US economic aid to Europe.
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