Posted on 10/18/2022 9:28:37 PM PDT by kiryandil
A much-touted EU fund meant to help countries replace weapons shipped to Ukraine is increasingly unable to cover an influx of reimbursement requests — and it hasn’t even sent out its first payment.
Days after Russia’s war began, the EU set up a €500 million pot, encouraging countries to arm Kyiv and ask the EU to foot the bill. After looking at the receipts it received, Brussels determined it could cover about 85 percent of the costs, according to estimates shared by three diplomats.
Then the EU authorized an even bigger pot — eventually totaling €1.5 billion. That’s when the flood of receipts started. The EU got so many requests that it calculated Brussels could only cover roughly 46 percent of the asks, the estimates show.
The plummeting percentage angered Poland, one of the EU’s largest weapons donors to Ukraine — and a leading reimbursement seeker, having submitted €1.8 billion in receipts, according to the diplomats. For days, the country blocked a final agreement on disbursing the second tranche of money, hoping to negotiate a higher rate.
"For them, below 50 percent is just too little,” one diplomat noted.
But Warsaw ultimately relented, agreeing on Wednesday to the 46 percent figure, according to diplomats. The move came as frustration mounted among other member countries who saw Poland as standing between them and large EU payments.
Still, the waning payback scheme risks damaging the EU’s reputation as a reliable military partner — just as Ukraine implores Europe for more weapons to aid a counteroffensive and fend off renewed Russian bombardments. Already, EU powers Germany and France are facing criticism for not donating enough, while some smaller countries say they’re running low on supplies.
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Baby needs a new pair of shoes.
Imelda Marcos nods her head in approval and admiration.
“Don’t let them tell you that you have ‘too many’!”
Send our heavily armed 87,000 IRS enforces once they get hired.
Ukraine is “Gimme Dat Nation.”
The Azov Nuffins
The new weapons are a general good. The swap of new for old benefits everyone. Its better that Poland has modern weapons, as its next in line vs the legions of evil, and it is the keystone, backstop and general reserve of the Eastern European defense.
It is Poland after all that will first have to ride to the rescue of the Baltics, or Moldavia.
Ahem. Fighting. Uses up weapons you know. Well known physical fact. When one shoots off a shell it is gone, downrange somewhere, hopefully in some Russians lap. There is then an empty space in the ammo box.
War also uses up shoes.
https://emergingcivilwar.com/2022/04/07/on-the-march-a-few-notes-on-shoes-boots/
Every nation at war is “gimme dat nation”.
That is war.
“War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.”
- Thucydides.
Personal note - I carried the “Peloponnesian War” in my backpack one summer at maneuvers/bivouac. I read it through then. Yes, crazy, as we were exhausted all the time. I was young though, and I read very, very fast. But it brought that all to life.
Does a blackhole make a sound?
Welp, an answer was given a couple days ago.
“NASA is sharing the sound of a Blackhole....they have named it Ukraine”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK_J05Bx3h8
The longer this goes on the safer we will be from the likelihood that NATO expansion morphs into the military force of the New World Order after the WEF Great Reset.
🇮🇱 Netanyahu: we should not give weapons to Ukraine, they will end up in Iran
“History teaches us that the weapons that Israel transferred to another country in the past end up in the hands of Iran,” the country’s ex-prime minister said.”
Guess he knows that everything is for sale in Ukraine...:-)
And Israel knows that Iran has pallet-loads of Swiss cash from the Halfrican and Basement Joe to buy those Israeli weapons...
If The Ukraine wants Mo money, mo money they can get it back from pig face bidet.
Pick some more green beans, ya snowbird.
I'll give it to you, though - you put up with summer in Da Southern Flats.
Thanks for the links, cranked. They’re excellent.
Have many more, but yep, no problem.
This war, like others, are money laundering.
Now the EU is practically defenseless in the face of Putin.
Well, well, well……remember when last month Vlad stated “ we have all capabilities, we haven’t even started yet”…..maybe folks should start listening to what Vlad says: he has proven his statement, he can ( and will?) shut Ukraine infrastructure and society down totally at any time- and with cheap kamikaze drones.
Vlad has shown much constraint and holds all the cards. Time to tighten the screws, 30 percent, 40, 50…he is giving the corrupted Ukie government every chance to rethink their “ no negotiations “ mindset.
Best part, the West is proven powerless- an infrastructure without any electricity ceases to exist-Vlad outsmarts senile Joe again? Rumblings for
the corrupted comedians ouster ARE growing. The quicker the better, enough Ukies have suffered under a no negotiations policy.
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