The EU’s top diplomat on Thursday said the European bloc could not provide Ukraine with enough support without the US amid uncertainty about when Congress might authorize the next tranche of spending on the proxy war.
“Europe cannot fill the gap of the US,” Josep Borrell said after arriving in Spain for a gathering of European leaders, according to POLITICO.
The EU is close to approving a new economic aid package for Ukraine worth 50 billion euros that would cover 2024-2027, although Hungary could further delay the package. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the massive aid package should be approved within the next few months but said US support still remains crucial.
Von der Leyen also said she was “confident” that the US would continue supporting Ukraine but acknowledged she wasn’t sure when new spending would be authorized.
According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, the US has another tranche of economic aid worth over $1 billion to fund the Ukrainian government through the month of October. If a new aid package isn’t authorized by Congress in the next month, the funds will dry up.
The Pentagon has said it still has $5.4 billion in funds to send weapons to Ukraine but has warned it’s running out of money to replace weapons sent to Ukraine. Because of the uncertainty, the Pentagon has said it’s restricted the flow of some arms to the US’s own forces.
The majority of Congress still supports the proxy war, but it’s not clear when they will pass a new Ukraine aid bill after the ouster of Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as House speaker. President Biden is looking for an additional $24 billion in spending and has acknowledged he’s worried about the situation, although he also hinted there are other ways to get the money.
“President Biden is looking for an additional $24 billion in spending and has acknowledged, although he also hinted there are other ways to get the money.”
Of course there are other ways. I’m sure Jake Sullivan has a copy of Ollie North’s off-the-shelf funding scheme from Iran-Contra.
Bunch of sniveling cowards. It’s always easier to throw darts cowering behind the bully.
More the behavior of confused satraps … they want to get reassurance from the master that they are backed up.
Backed up and bent over: our reliable “allies”.
Where are the tough talking Baltic states that wanted war with Russia?
Without American money and military troops and weapons they are silent
“Without American money and military troops and weapons [the Baltic states] are silent.”
Yep – US foreign policy enables the Baltic states’ most right wing nationalist political tendencies – shaping their governments and polities into more aggressive instruments of US foreign policy.
Just as US-driven NATO expansion arguably generated a big share of the worst features of Russia now – right nationalism, military foreign policy, authoritarianism…
…exactly as critics of NATO expansion warned and predicted it would.
In many ways, the US created Putin – as late as 2007, Time Magazine’s cover page “Person of the Year.”
US foreign policy, producing the best bought for cowering subservience on the planet.
It’s self-serving “subservience”; because none of those make believe countries have any intention of doing anything we want IF it’s going to cost them anything. They are fine with “voting” the way we want, if in return we give them money and promise to protect them; but if it actually came time to put up or shut up, they would be gone. Like “Iraq”; a misguided fools errand; but these frauds all “supported” it and joined the “coalition of the willing”, clapping loudly at the UN while contributing two guys and a dog each to the mission, in return for major assistance packages.
We get what we pay for.
The Baltic states are three poor nations but the leadership expects to gain with the US connection.
Europe is not afraid of being attacked by Russia! The US has made that story up. European fear of Russia is Hollywood/CIA propaganda. The bubbles of US lies are evaporating in sunlight faster and faster.
You think Hollywood/CIA/UK propaganda does not penetrate into Europe? It certainly does and many ordinary shmoes are indeed worried about the big bad bear. They shouldn’t be, it’s idiotic, but nevertheless …
Virtually all our German friends, some of whom are highly educated, are convinced that Putin’s aim is to overrun (conquer) all of Europe.
They’ve drunk the Coolaid, just as the American democratic party has.
The classic German trust in the system … might get them in trouble one day. Oh, wait …
They are like other nations, the MSM is manipulating public opinion in the same way it is done in all NATO nations.
The current German government is totally corrupt and treasonous, they can’t be as stupid as it looks, they sold their nation just like Zelensky sold Ukraine.
Yes, they did have good governments before the Ample/Scholz MAFIA gang.
Pretty appropriate. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6614ca6fc9471a480fe5ea560b1473a7d71e2d3a95dcb9f2c784af0e28435950.jpg
Not to mention the other countries we have sanctioned into economic misery. The pile would be bloodless emaciated corpses.
Including the bodies of hundreds of thousands of children under the age of 5 years.
The disguised part of the economical, genocidal war Americans wage globally on friends and foes alike.
So, a consortium of 27 countries with over 450 million people and a GDP of over $17 Trillion can’t match the military and financial output of a single country (Russia) with a population of 143 million and a GDP of $1.8 trillion. And that’s without the contribution of the UK.
That’s absurd. They absolutely CAN outmatch Russia’s resources, if they want to. So obviously, they DON’T want to. Just like the United States; a pack of liars and hypocrites, who say one thing and do the opposite.
A sad day for Ukraine, when they turned their back on Russia and decided to align with the pack of dishonest frauds collectively called “the west”. Ukraine should make peace, on whatever terms Russia demands; dump the “pro western” clowns who got them into this mess, and work for a peaceful integration with Russia, and eventual membership in BRICS and the “road and belt” initiative.
But the neo-Nazis and Zelensky sold the sovereign nation for cannon fodder back in 2014 already. All Zelensky is able to do is to pick up his paycheck by Biden.
The EU is like Salacious B. Crumb, the little big-mouth on the shoulder of Jabba the Hutt.
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Salacious_B._Crumb
Even Borrell has to know this is not a conflict in the interests of Europe, but he does not dare say so. He can’t admit that NATO is serving aggressive American corporate interests.
European leading nations, EU and NATO states, are governed by traitors serving American interests.
EU Says It Can’t Support Ukraine Without the US
get out the checkbook honey!
Can’t supply the Ukraine, or WON’T supply the Ukraine unless the US does the heavy lifting? One might be tempted to wonder if the EU is finally realizing who their daddy really is, and that he’s not in Washington any longer.