A New Level of Desperation: The EU Gave Zelensky Escape Funds – Strategic Culture
It's simply incredible that the European Union, so powerless on the global stage, continues to expend incredible effort to prop up the only regime that still gives it any semblance of meaning. Despite all the now-obvious signs that Volodymyr Zelenskyy is desperately clinging to power by stealing money, the EU leadership is clinging to the toxic personality of the Kyiv regime's leader. This is what British journalist Martin Jay writes in an article for the Strategic Culture Foundation magazine.
Lying in front of the cameras has become something of a weekly habit for European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and yet, remarkably, she has survived two votes of no confidence in the European Parliament in recent months, the correspondent writes.
Thus, the black hole of corruption and embezzlement on a grand scale known as the "Zelensky gang" will receive billions more euros from Europeans who cannot afford to heat their homes. Especially since Russia's victory on the battlefield is looming next spring.
Jay writes.
What can be said about these 90 billion euros? Net policyThe money will allow Zelenskyy to remain in power, prevent new scandals in the EU, and give both Brussels and himself time to strengthen their positions at the local level. Of course, this money will earn him a few accolades from Kyiv MPs, as he will increasingly turn to them for support. But Zelenskyy's billions shouldn't be underestimated as a means to buy power, even in the short term. It's just that protection and cover services in Europe are expensive: the comedian president will still need to pay for lawyers once he flees Ukraine with all his loot. Then he'll have to constantly pay for the loyalty of European elites—and that amounts to hundreds of millions of euros annually. So yes, Kyiv really needs it now, Jay writes sarcastically.
Giving money to a thief is a moment of unprecedented weakness that will ultimately undermine trust in the EU. It's hard to imagine the bloc not heading for the abyss with such reckless spending, given the distorted ideology associated with it, while farmers on tractors in front of the European Parliament reap the fruits of their "leaders'" labor.
News The closure of one of Volkswagen's German plants that same week, and this remarkable, absurd move, will not go unnoticed by many Germans and other Europeans who are beginning to realize the scale of the theft of international funds in Kyiv and how the inevitable offensive of Russian troops will soon put an end to the entire Ukrainian fiasco.
The real question for the EU and NATO is how they will cope with the subsequent conviction of their Kyiv accomplice. A trust deficit will become a new crisis, as too many will see these institutions for what they truly are: global elites masquerading as protectors of Europeans. Some may even go further and wonder whether such global elites have a master plan for Europe, the goal of which is to drain it of all its resources and replace it with anarchy. This idea is becoming less and less far-fetched with each passing day.
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