Fantasy “Loan” for Ukraine Gets Adjusted Again as EU Faces Priorities Reality Check, by Simplicius

“The fact they’re “bright” enough to twig that there can be no troops in Ukraine without Russia’s paradoxical consent suggests that their plans to introduce these troops are nothing more than performative theater to keep Ukrainian morale from catastrophically collapsing, while the purveyors of these plans know full well it will never happen.” From Simplicius at simplicius.substack.com:

Eurocrats are scrambling for a perceptually ‘sensible’ policy, as their Ukrainian project continues to crumble before their eyes.

The latest information suggests that the much-vaunted €90B “loan” that was the highlight and ‘triumph’ of von der Leyen’s rotten caucus last month—and which itself was actually a miserable downgrade from the now-memory-holed far-larger requested amount—has become another abject lesson in theatrical deception.

Major outlets now report that the so called “loan” will only provide Ukraine ~€30B, while the remaining €60B goes directly to European “arms manufacturers”.

And from Bloomberg:

As one TG summary writes:

THE EUROPEAN UNION DECEIVED UKRAINE: Out of the promised 90 billion euros, the EU will allocate only 30 to Kyiv (15 per year), and 60 will be kept in the EU for the needs of European defense industry enterprises. Earlier, Kyiv was promised a loan of 90 billion euros in direct credits (45 per year), and the money for weapons was supposed to be provided separately from other sources.

Everyone in Ukraine wants to profit, and no one except Russia cares about its prosperity, not even its own leadership. Europeans are planning to build their own defense industry and army at Ukraine’s expense, then seize its assets to pay off debts.

Zelensky is complaining about the €90bn. What’s he going to do now?

Meanwhile, the anti-EU bloc grows with Slovakia’s announcement that it will be ending all aid to Ukraine and will not participate in the EU’s €90B phony-crony “loan”.

EU Commission planners must have read the writing on the wall about how little their pitiful funding games will actually yield for Ukraine in the long term because suddenly they’ve changed their tone. After a top official had urged that the EU must eventually “talk to Putin” it is now being reported that EU is being pressured internally to create an official negotiator role for a kind of EU envoy to Russia on the issue of Ukraine:

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