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Data shows that European countries did not offer new military aid to Kiev in July.
Written by Lucas Leiroz, researcher in Social Sciences at the Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; geopolitical consultant.
Apparently, European countries are understanding that the path to peace in Ukraine requires stopping military aid. Data show that in July the six major European powers abstained from making new military agreements with Kiev. It was the first month without European aid pledges to Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian special military operation, in February. In fact, this indicates that Western support is on decline, leaving only Kiev to decide whether or not to continue with the conflict.
The news was announced by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy – more specifically through Ukraine Support Tracker, which operates within the Institute. According to the researchers, European authorities have become unable to keep up with the speed with which the US, UK and Poland send military aid. This situation has led to a slow decline in the supply of money, weapons and equipment, resulting in July’s absolute absence of support contracts.
The decline has been occurring since April. Looking from a realistic point of view it is possible that the Russian advance may have discouraged European leaders from maintaining high spending on the conflict, considering it as simply “lost”. Also, the discouragement may have been intensified especially after the Russian victory at the battle of Azovstal in May, when Western analysts finally began to admit that Kiev is losing the conflict.
More than geopolitical realism, there is also the direct pragmatic factor: Europe cannot promise Kiev more than it currently promises simply because it cannot give Kiev more than it currently does. Americans, British and Poles are managing to fulfill their promises because they have taken the Ukrainian situation as a national emergency and are mobilizing their productive forces to meet this demand. However, the EU has many other priorities that make it impossible to give more help to Kiev. In other words: whatever is happening at the front, Europe is not promising Kiev any more aid simply because it can no longer help.
Obviously, the situation will not lead to an abrupt interruption of aid, but a gradual decline. Certainly, the end of support will not be definitive or linear, having expectations for modest resumptions and new interruptions again. For example, at the beginning of August, there was a meeting between European authorities in Copenhagen to re-discuss aid strategies. It was decided that an amount of 1.5 billion euros would be sent. Although the act somehow means that Europeans still “care” about Ukraine, the number is far lower than previous conferences’ packages.
Commenting on the topic, Christoph Trebesch, head of the team compiling the Ukraine Support Tracker, said: “Despite the war entering a critical phase, new aid initiatives have dried up. (…) When you compare the speed at which the checkbook came out and the size of the money that was delivered, compared to what is on offer for Ukraine, it is tiny in comparison (…) I would say [current European support is] surprisingly little considering what is at stake (…)“.
Trebesch believes that the correct European stance would be to invest in the Ukrainian conflict the same amount of money invested in overcoming previous events, such as the eurozone crisis and the new coronavirus pandemic. Trebesch’s opinion reiterates that of many other pro-Kiev activists, who believe that a Russian victory would be an absolute disaster for the entire Europe and lead to the bloc’s collapse, which is why every possible effort should be made now in order to prevent Moscow from reaching its goals.
And even though political realism is growing among Europeans, many authorities still think like Trebesch. For example, Latvian Defense Minister Artis Pabriks asked: “If we are wanting the war to end as soon as possible, they need to ask themselves, are they doing enough?”.
In fact, realism may overcome ideological or humanitarian arguments. The EU certainly has other priorities to address. The conflict itself brings with it many problems, such as the energy and food supply crisis. Thinking about solutions to problems that affect Europeans should be a priority over thinking about strategies to reverse the military scenario.
Furthermore, the argument that the current crisis should receive the same investment funds from previous crises is unfounded. The pandemic has killed thousands of Europeans, requiring direct state intervention. The conflict in Ukraine, as much as it worries the EU, is a foreign matter and cannot be a priority now. If the US, UK and Poland keep Ukraine as a priority, it is because these countries maintain a geopolitical and ideological rivalry against Russia, which is not the case in Europe.
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I don’t know what’s more disappointing, China threatening to shoot down Nanci Pelosi’s plane and not doing it or Russia threatening to reduce decision making centers to ashes if Crimea is attacked and not doing it.
Russia please do as you say. Attack the rail lines, attack the supply lines, attack the decision making centers.
We are waiting.
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Hopefully they hold off on the outrageously stupid military escalations that leave the attacked party no choice but to seek revenge for 30 years … I prefer not to watch my family slowly die of starvation and radiation sickness in the wake of a nuclear war.
Have patience, success in War is NOT a race to the bottom.
Slava Rossiya.
Erdogan declared he s on ukraine side. Did he fool Putin?
Russia is going to drop the hammer on the NAZI bastards
They took quite a pounding today, this can’t last much longer.
Or that any equipment being delivered in the future is being withheld as military reserve. The Putin cockroaches can’t possibly understand this since they already depleted all of Russia’s military reserves. The Ukrainian forces are destroying the shitty Russian army just fine as it is.
Oh come on kike, nobody believes your B.S. here. The Russkies are turning Ukrap unwilling conscripts in to burger meat on a daily basis and turning NATO donated crap old military hardware in to scrap metal.
Erdogan declared he s on ukraine side. Did he fool Putin?
The Message I just received from Allah, “The Russians are doing Great in building the new state of Novorossiya”.
That wasn’t Allah you got the message from. It was from your favorite islamic spirit. Shaitan. You’re such demented freak you’ll take any message as Allah.
Why is the hook nosed Shite hawk pretending to be a Muslim, the majority of sane people hate both equally ya nutjob!
I think they are sending less cause they may need it themselves after ukraine has fallen. It seems to be clear that the West-EU-Elite believes that Putin will not stop at the polish border. If this is really the case or not does not matter but they believe it and act accordingly.
The difference is just that Poland believes it can stop Putin in Ukraine while the others do not. The Brits and US just see all of continental Europe as the choosen battlefield and will just use the Poles and Romanians just as much as cannonfodder as they use the ukrainians now.
Russia wouldn’t even stand a chance against NATO regardless of wether they keep their weapons or not. Not after everybody saw how pathetic the shitty Russian army is. It’s the laughingstock of the world.
my analytics projecting successfully proved that USA defeated Viet-cong and the taliban. that rusty condom in your rectum predicts more peurile desperate comments in future—-you win dildo; Russia wins the war
Everybody around the world chuckles when the Putin cockroaches talk about the war in Ukraine as a special moronic operation. It tells just how delusional and demented they are.
All that and Kicking the shit out of Ukraine every day.
According to Tel Aviv, the war must continue and you goyim need to die
Due to a CIA Jew puppet President in Ukraine Germany will not have enough gas this winter. Now that is funny, would be even funnier if the holocaust had been real!
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” For example, at the beginning of August, there was a meeting between European authorities in Copenhagen to re-discuss aid strategies. ”
Mmmmmm. My informant in MI6 tells me that the EU has its Wonder Weapon to obliterate Russia. My informant changes his Pronouns as part of his cover. ‘She’ has told me that the Wonder Weapon is a US trained Regiment from Denmark, commanded by Brigadier Jens Holm. The Shitstabbers, as the brigade is affectionately known, are really scary when they scream and shout a lot.
he, he, he, dream about it. Europe stay together in support of Ukraine defence and against Putin Russia aggression
You moronic faggot!, you can’t even spell European.
EU= We must do everything to help Ukraine. Ukraine= Can we join the EU? EU= No Ukraine= Can we joint NATO? EU/US= No
The cost is becoming to high to bear with their economies diving , costs for everything rising supporting a lost cause. Russia and the European countries had no serious issues before the US stuck the red hot poker in to create mayhem for all. Looks like they are slowly waking up to reality.
Ukraine is also bleeding the EU it is costing Kiev 7 billion a month (who do you think is paying) it literally is in bankruptcy, Russia now controls lots of Ukraine’s rich resources.Russia on the other hand has removed itself from the West and is independent.
Just give the Russians what they wanted at the beginning of the war. With a little extra just because you had to be dicks.
It might not be so much a European realization that the Ukraine cannot win the war, as it is that unlike the US, which has bottomless supplies of military hardware, Europe’s armies have been cut to the bone since the end of the Cold War, and they just had very little to give. When your army is small and most of its spare equipment has been sold off already, there is very little weaponry to spare.
The EU is weak and pathetic. They are scum and cowards who are so happy to kill white christians.
Europe must stand against Russia already 50,000 white christians are dead because of the Muslim loving Putin
The military support from Western nato countries to Ukraine must also have an effect on those countries in the form of weakening the ability of their own military ordinance supply let’s say should a major conflict occur involving one or more of these Western powers. It may find it difficult to replace the stocks of weaponry and other ordinance it has already sent to Kiev. Also 80% of all Western goods are imported from China!
Its not the scam-covid-demic that has killed thousands of Europeans, but the killer injections pushed by the Soros/Gates/WEF globalist cabal that has killed and injured hundreds of thousands already and will kill millions more unless people wake up to the scam and refuse any more jabs.
Its not the scam-covid-demic that has killed thousands of Europeans, but the killer injections pushed by the Soros/Gates/WEF globalist cabal that has killed and injured hundreds of thousands already and will kill millions more unless people wake up to the scam and refuse any more jabs. Its the common cold and influenza, which happen every year. Stop believing lying politicians, and that means all politicians.