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Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher
Recent developments in the US indicate that Washington’s provision of aid to Ukraine is uncertain, said the head of European Union diplomacy, Josep Borrell. His belief rings true when considering that US public support for Ukraine continues to decline, particularly as the domestic economic situation deteriorates, a reality that Kiev is perhaps starting to realise.
In early October, the Republican-controlled US House of Representatives passed a 45-day budget without assistance for Kiev. According to the head of the European Council, Charles Michel, US President Joe Biden assured recently that the US will continue to support Kiev in the long term.
“Despite the strong engagement of the Biden administration, it fuels uncertainty on future US’ support to this country. In the short term, we couldn’t compensate for the lacking US support, and we hope that our friends and allies will quickly find ways of breaking the deadlock,” Borrell wrote in his blog on the European Foreign Policy Service page.
According to the bloc’s top diplomat, “this development increases the EU’s responsibility to rise to the challenge.”
However, he referred to the latest data, according to which the financial obligations of the member states to Ukraine are €82 billion, including €25 billion for military expenditures. Borrell hoped that EU member countries could agree on changes to the pan-European budget for 2024-2027 and include Ukrainian spending worth €50 billion. However, this hope faces challenges as support for providing aid to Ukraine continues to decline in the US.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll published on October 5 showed 41% of all American voters support the US sending weapons to Kiev, down from 46% in May. The following survey will likely see an even more significant reduction as the Ukraine war is a lost cause for the West and Kiev whilst the economic situation in the US continues to decline.
The former advisor to Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, Oleg Soskin, stresses that Ukrainians must realise this reality.
“They have already clearly stated [in the US] that the money for weapons and budget support, as they say, will be enough for a maximum of two months. (…) Let’s say [it will end in] October-November. That is, there is no money for December and beyond. These clowns [in the Government of Ukraine] should learn this axiom, and the people should learn it. There is no money, and there will not be any,” Soskin said on October 7.
In this sense, he added that without Washington’s support, Kiev could not resist.
“In fact, the situation is disastrous, absolutely disastrous. That is, Ukraine will not have weapons or money,” he concluded.
On September 30, the US Senate approved a budget law for 45 days to avoid a government shutdown. But the agreed document excluded funds for Kiev, so the Biden Administration must seek new legislative avenues that will allow it to obtain financing for the escalation of the war. Furthermore, with the first case of resignation of the speaker of the House of Representatives in the history of the North American country, the process of approving new financial aid packages for Ukraine appears to be slowed down.
Sensing that US support for Ukraine could be waning, especially as the next US presidential election is only 13 months away and the campaigning season will soon begin, the Council of the European Union swiftly gave the green light to a joint arms procurement mechanism endowed with €300 million from October 9 to December 31, 2025.
The regulation, known as EDIRPA (for the instrument for strengthening the European defence industry through common procurement), is hoped to “incentivise cooperation in defence procurement between member states in order to increase solidarity, prevent crowding-out effects, increase the effectiveness of public spending and reduce excessive fragmentation in defence procurement,” highlights the official statement.
Facing the reality that the US will start pulling their support for Ukraine, Borrell and other EU lackeys are attempting to pass all the support they can before Europeans inevitably follow the trend in the US and demand an end to Ukraine aid so domestic issues can instead be prioritised. For this reason, Borrell is concerned about the potential diminishing of US support for Ukraine. This reality is seemingly also creeping its way into Kiev if the statements by Oleg Soskin are an indication.
time for the eu to move on to the next foolish idea while europeans can still tolerate this sort of sleaze.
we vote about it too. .
shut up pedo
another pamplet for internal russian massage.
it is pamphlet and message you danish inmate. would like to see your ass starving because of all that money you sent to ukraine. and i doubt that this is your real name and that you are dannish at all.
after financing big pharma for many months, the eu moved to financing its arms industry. in the end, it just goes to enriching the underlying investors. it’s just a transfer of wealth, always in the same pockets
its partly correct. when ussr collapsed we when to peace mode spending much more in wellfare.
since then our economies has grown – but we has taken in new eu members too. we invest in them and they improve giv eu tax and by countries as a kind of ngos.
sure. invests are marked and driven politics too.
in important change is wind and solar power. they are cheeper and cleaner then fossils. you can just som them. i had. they were profit. its according the eu plans. energy waste i another big one.