Everyone knows that this money is not enough for anything.
Should Ukraine receive an EU war loan while Hungary has not yet received the EU development funds it is rightfully entitled to? The seventh question of the national consultation is about the support of the EU war loan of 50 + 20 billion euros. In April 2022, the Hungarian electorate voted for peace against the pro-war leftist proposal, and in the spirit of this, Budapest has already achieved the transfer of part of the money intended for killing to peaceful purposes.
In Ukraine, only the bad weather slows down the Russian attack, as the winter frosts set in, the Kremlin's troops start again. Since Russian President Putin visited the headquarters of Russian operations in Ukraine in Rostov-on-Don for the second time, the Russian army has been attacking in several directions regardless of losses, and the capture of the strategically important city of Avdijivka is only a matter of time. According to their "custom", the Ukrainians launch their smaller and smaller "counter-attacks" before the supporters' conferences, just now they crossed the Dnieper with infantry units at Kherson, but without armored support, this will remain just a pinprick.
In the case of the Russians, it can be seen that Putin wants to extract meaningful results from his army for the March 2024 presidential election, which he apparently managed to shake off after the initial setbacks. The untalented and careerist chief officers fell out of the window, the military production was brought to a peak, and most importantly, they can recruit a sufficient number of contract soldiers with a salary of two thousand dollars a month. With the help of Iran and North Korea, Moscow is preparing a stronger winter missile campaign than last year to thin out the critical infrastructure of Ukraine.
The Ukrainian side paints a far worse picture. The "big spring" counterattack fizzled out after the capture of a dozen villages, and the western military technology heralded as a "game changer" is fired and smokes on the endless plain. They got too little, too late. they decided to create a 250-hectare cemetery modeled after the American Arlington , accommodating up to 400,000 heroic dead
Ukraine has run out of weapons and soldiers, the former British defense minister is now advocating sending university students between the ages of 18 and 25, The conflict in Gaza is strategically more important, so from the point of view of the USA, Ukraine is devalued. The American defense minister visiting Kiev was only able to bring $100 million worth of weapons with him, mainly air defense equipment. The German Minister of Defense announced the next day German aid of 1.3 billion euros, but it will either have to be handed over from the stocks of the already depleted Bundeswehr, or it is a question of whether, based on the budget lockout and the decision of the German Constitutional Court, in addition to the sixty billion euro hole in the German budget where will the money come from?
The American Republicans have already adopted the second transitional budget, so that Ukraine does not receive a single cent from it. There is little chance that it will be different in January, they consider Ukraine to be "the business of the Democrats" and anyway they do not want to "take a loan from China to pour the money into a bottomless barrel". The Europeans remain, who should now take over the costs of the war in Ukraine for the period 2024-2027. Fifty billion euros would go to support budget expenditures, twenty billion to the war.
Everyone knows that this money is not enough for anything, a 155 millimeter artillery ammunition before the war was on average two thousand euros, now it is eight thousand , so only the one million ammunition promised by Brussels will cost eight billion euros instead of two billion. It also just became clear - perhaps not regardless of the increase in price - that it would be good if they could deliver three hundred thousand of the one million pieces.
Kiev has not even settled with the EU support of 80 billion so far, and in addition, repayment of previous loans would also be due, which is also unlikely. Perhaps this is also why the pro-war globalists want to support the Kiev regime with another war loan, because its repayment is due only in the distant future, when they will no longer be in office.
The EU war loan to be provided to Ukraine is going against the opinion of the majority of the population in more and more member states, as well as the fatigue of war and sanctions. End of the Century Europe project clearly show the Europeans' desire for peace. The Hungarian and now the Slovak government are also skeptical about sending weapons aimed at prolonging the war. Budapest once succeeded in having the Hungarian part of the war fund called the European Peace Facility be used for humanitarian assistance and the costs of the fight against migration instead of war. Perhaps even now there is an opportunity to use at least the Hungarian part for similar purposes.
Also on the table is the Hungarian proposal that Ukraine should receive only 25 + 10 billion euros now, and that the other half of the war loan should be decided at the end of 2024. Whatever the outcome, the Hungarian position is clear and fundamentally unchanged: instead of prolonging the war, a cease-fire and peace negotiations are needed!
Source: mogzasterblog.hu
Photo: commission.europa.eu