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PETER HITCHENS: The moronic Ukraine war has done nothing but harm--so why are Europe's leaders intent on keeping it going?
DailyMail.com ^ | 2/22/2025 | Peter Hitchens

Posted on 02/22/2025 6:38:07 PM PST by Nextrush

So, does anyone want to buy a used war, and take it over?

I can't think why they would do so. You might as well rush to obtain an unexploded bomb, or a leaking canister of some horrible virus.

Whatever has come over the leaders of Europe, jostling to keep the Ukraine war going when it might at last be ending? This moronic, needless conflict has done this continent nothing but harm.

As an event, it is horrible, a hellish panorama of innocent people shivering without electricity in half-ruined cities, broken homes, broken hearts and broken bodies, hospitals crammed with maimed soldiers, families staring quietly into space remembering when had a father, brother or son.

And even now press-gangs still roam the streets trying to drag more men off to a war they know is lost.

And yet I doubt whether one person in 10,000 can work out why it happened, while nobody can point to any good it has done or could ever have done.

I have said before that the Ukraine war was not even in the interests of the USA, which worked so hard to bring it about...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Russia; Ukraine; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: donaldtrump; emmanuelmacron; europe; keirstarmer; killkillkillforpeace; mic; peterhitchens; ukraine; ukrainewar; volodymyrzelensky; war; welfarewar
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1 posted on 02/22/2025 6:38:07 PM PST by Nextrush
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To: Nextrush

Well, duh. The EU Globohomos and Marxist Democrats didn’t want their Anti American partner Putin to lose. Nothing “moronic” about Ukrainians wanting their own borders, language and culture separate from the filth and mass murder of Russkiy Mir.


2 posted on 02/22/2025 6:43:01 PM PST by lodi90
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To: Nextrush

Vicky Nuland still loves this kr@p.


3 posted on 02/22/2025 6:44:57 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Nextrush

Money talk. BS walks.


4 posted on 02/22/2025 6:45:32 PM PST by The Louiswu (You get what you vote for, good and hard.)
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To: Nextrush

“The moronic Ukraine war has done nothing but harm—so why are Europe’s leaders intent on keeping it going?”

Because they MISCALCULATED. Virtually all Western leaders figured that Russia was “a gas station masquerading as a country”, and so they figured they could drive out Putin with super-severe sanctions, and if not, then the Western wonder-weapons would take him out on the battlefield. All they accomplished in Europe was de-industrializing themselves while Russia just got stronger and stronger, both economically and militarily.

So, they were wrong, 1 million dead-wrong, and so, I guess, they figure on prolonging their day of reckoning as long as possible by keeping Ukrainians and Russians killing each other, for once the war ends, there will be a lot of questions being asked...and Trump and his people may just answer those questions.


5 posted on 02/22/2025 6:45:51 PM PST by BobL (The people who hate Trump demand that you hate Russia)
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To: Nextrush

Corrupt euro ‘elites’ launder their money there and get ‘jobs’ for their drug addicted whore monger sons?


6 posted on 02/22/2025 6:47:01 PM PST by GOPJ (Democrats are the party of angry black women, sexual weirdos and white liberal elites. It's a fail.)
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To: Nextrush

I’m thinking there are a LOT of kickback from Ukraine aid.


7 posted on 02/22/2025 6:51:16 PM PST by rbg81 (=)
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To: Nextrush

10 9 8 7 6 uh, because they want control of land’s resources?


8 posted on 02/22/2025 6:51:58 PM PST by aspasia
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To: Nextrush

Pretty simple,
Russians aren’t very good soldiers.
Waste enough of their kids and it will
cripple their society in a few years.

Take the long “view”.


9 posted on 02/22/2025 6:52:45 PM PST by rellic (No such thing as a moderate Moslem or Democrat )
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To: Nextrush

Actually Russia is keeping the war going. They can quit and withdraw at any time and bring things to a halt. If Ukraine quits, they lose their country.


10 posted on 02/22/2025 6:53:04 PM PST by Engraved-on-His-hands
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To: Nextrush

“ Whatever has come over the leaders of Europe, jostling to keep the Ukraine war going when it might at last be ending? This moronic, needless conflict has done this continent nothing but harm.”
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You ever try to get a drug addict to quit the drugs that were doing him/her nothing but harm? The EU “leaders” are addicts…. addicted to THEIR war and addicted to THEIR disastrous green energy policies and THEIR invasion of third-world savages and THEIR impoverishment of their own native people.


11 posted on 02/22/2025 6:53:07 PM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: aspasia

5, 4, 3, uh, it’s a catalyst to the militarization of the EU government . . .


12 posted on 02/22/2025 6:53:27 PM PST by aspasia
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To: Nextrush

Russia is Christian. Europe is not only not Christian; Europe is openly hostile to Christianity.


13 posted on 02/22/2025 6:53:30 PM PST by Romulus ( )
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Does an economically stronger economy have 10%+ inflation and 21% interest rates, and blown through the “rainy day” funds in three years, have Chinese cars dominating their market, send soldiers on Chinese motorcycles, Atvs and golf carts to charge the front and now mules to move supplies.

You want Putin to have his greater Russia, just say so

But this debacle is on putin.


14 posted on 02/22/2025 6:54:49 PM PST by blitz128
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To: BobL

Its a simple matter of manufacturing 155mm Howitzer shells...Russia does it in huge quantities 24/7 also the Russians fitted WWII bombs with stubby wings and GPS guidance so they can be launched from way behind the front lines.


15 posted on 02/22/2025 6:55:08 PM PST by spokeshave (Proud Boys, Angry Dads. Grumpy Grandads & Curmudgeons)
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To: Nextrush

There are only five options. They are the same options that mystery and crime writers have. The motive for murder (And by extrapolation war) is ALWAYS about one of five things.
1. Sex.
2. Vengance
3. Money
4. Blackmail
5. Ideology

Or possibly some combination of the above


16 posted on 02/22/2025 6:56:29 PM PST by Fai Mao (Starve the Beast and steal its food.)
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To: Nextrush

“why are Europe’s leaders intent on keeping it going?”

Is it because the defense industries are making mucho dinero replacing the ammo sent to Ukraine?


17 posted on 02/22/2025 6:56:43 PM PST by antidemoncrat ( )
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To: Nextrush

The fact that the trotskyist Starmer and feckless Macron still want to carry on arming Ukraine even after Trump has abandoned them, proves that at very least, the EU globalists were gung-ho, equal partners on this war, and happily worked with US neocons to promote it.

Some even say the EU lead the effort


18 posted on 02/22/2025 6:58:49 PM PST by PGR88
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“And even now press-gangs still roam the streets trying to drag more men off to a war they know is lost. “

Not to worry.

The men in the field and in the trenches know Trump’s words and they know about the end of military aid.

No benefactor and no hope.

Ukrainian lines will collapse rapidly.


19 posted on 02/22/2025 7:00:27 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: blitz128

The US had the same 10% (or more) inflation under Biden, although the Biden people hid it. The interest rate is because the economy is BOOMING and is the only way to keep inflation from increasing. The US has -$37 TRILLION in our ‘Rainy day fund’. Correct that Chinese cars have replaced European cars in Russia...smart move by the Europeans to lose their largest market. If you don’t know why motorcycles are in use in Ukraine, then you’re not following the war, you’re following CNN.

Putin will now get his greater Russia because the Neocons DEMANDED this war.

Hard to call it a “debacle” when NO ONE is claiming that Ukraine can win the war, other than the handful of Zeepers here.


20 posted on 02/22/2025 7:00:35 PM PST by BobL (The people who hate Trump demand that you hate Russia)
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