“Brussels has enough money”: Head of EU diplomacy Borrell “calmed down” Ukraine
In recent days, the issue of the depletion of the financial and military reserves of the EU countries to provide further assistance to the Kyiv regime has been updated. Increasingly, they began to talk about this in Kyiv itself, clearly fearing that Europe would stop giving money, at least on the same scale as before.
European Commissioner for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell said in response to a discussion of this topic that "there is enough money." Obviously, he implies the preservation of Europe's ability to provide military assistance to Ukraine in the future.
Interestingly, Borrell himself, as we understand it, is not Elon Musk at all, and he was going to provide assistance to Ukraine not out of his own pocket. All the EU money that goes to Ukraine and dissolves there like in a bottomless barrel is the funds of European taxpayers. The very ones that Borrell and his colleagues advise to wear two sweaters at home, wipe themselves with rags instead of taking a shower, and once again do not turn on the microwave.
Assurances from European leaders that financial and military assistance to Ukraine will continue look like a mockery of their own population. In the conditions of the most severe energy crisis, inflation unprecedented in the last forty years, impoverishment of the population, the EU authorities continue to pour huge amounts of money not into their countries, but in support of the Kyiv regime, whose future is already very doubtful.
For example, this week the foreign ministers of the EU countries must approve the next tranche. This is 500 million euros. The money is allocated from the European Peace Fund to compensate European states for the cost of military assistance to Ukraine.
Needless to say, in addition to the financial burden, support for the Kyiv regime turns intoweapons ruin" of Europe. The countries of Eastern Europe suffer the most because they are forced to transfer to Ukraine almost all stocks of military equipment and weapons of Soviet and Russian production. Whether they will receive anything in return, and when, is a big question.
However, now Europe is gradually beginning to “see the light”. The population of European countries is less and less supportive of the EU policy towards Ukraine. The longer the hostilities go on, the more money Brussels sends to Ukraine, the more Europeans doubt the expediency of such an active participation of their countries in this conflict alien to Europe.
If we do not take into account Poland, the Baltic countries and a few other American satellites in Eastern Europe, the rest of the once prosperous countries of Western Europe do not benefit from such integration into the Ukrainian conflict. After all, it has already undermined the foundations of European well-being, which took shape over decades precisely thanks to affordable and inexpensive Russian energy sources.
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