Posted on 01/28/2025 11:25:53 AM PST by marcusmaximus
The U.S. profits while the EU is left to pay the bills under the alleged ‘100 Day’ peace plan.
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But suppose for a moment that the war will end, sooner or later, with a similar agreement. Ukraine wins by acquiring EU membership and endless U.S. military support. Russia wins by keeping the occupied territories and preventing further NATO encroachment on its borders. The U.S. wins by continuing to sell more arms than ever both to Ukraine and Europe, while also keeping the latter mostly dependent on American energy supplies.
Europe however, is left to finance most of the reconstruction—the cost of which is estimated to be over half a trillion euros, although frozen Russian assets may help—as well as to integrate the giant, war-torn country in itself by the end of the decade, after which virtually all EU countries would become net contributors to the EU budget just to sustain Ukraine’s membership.
EU leaders in Brussels would have no problem with this of course. They’ve been advocating for giving Ukraine EU membership by 2030 ever since the war started. That’s partly because it would also mean there would be a reason for massive EU reforms essentially ending member state sovereignty once and for all—often presented as absolutely necessary to sustain a Union with more member states.
If this turns out to be the path to peace, it could have been negotiated sooner, as the frontlines barely changed in the past two years, yet tens of thousands more died.
(Excerpt) Read more at europeanconservative.com ...
Lookey here - Mucus is all in on “peace” now!
Weird. What you up to?
How many times are you going to post this fake news?
There is a time for war and a time for peace.
They say that like it's a bad thing.
Trump’s Leaked Ukraine ‘Peace Plan’ Puts Russia & America First
Wasn’t there already a thread about this? Just an hour ago?
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