I don’t know if Zelenskyy watches the news, but the mood in France, Italy and Albania is not good. Large protests are underway, sometimes turning into clashes with police. In southern Italy roads are set to be blocked for the next two days. People are protesting bad education, poverty, soaring fuel prices and actual shortages of diesel and gasoline in some regions.
Against this backdrop, six months before elections in France and Italy, Volodymyr Zelenskyy is asking for another €70 billion to fund an endless war that Ukraine is losing. The previous €90 billion were already extracted with huge difficulty. Hungary and Slovakia have already said they will not take part in this new financing.
This is not about whether I support Zelenskyy. The economy in Ukraine is nearly stopped — by Russian strikes and by the incompetence of a wartime government. The Constitution is on pause, as one of Zelenskyy’s own friends has said.
The war is taking more lives and more land, and the only answer we hear is “give Ukraine more money”. Money that Europeans no longer want to give and can no longer afford to give. Every third euro in Ukraine is now Western borrowing.
To save the country we need a deal and a chance to rebuild. I do not believe Ukraine can remain an equal partner while it is this dependent on the West, or that this strategy has any long-term future.
It breaks my heart that this war is destroying so much in Ukraine and causing such degradation. It also breaks my heart that European countries, including France, Italy and Albania, are going through such hard times.
That is why I say again: let’s end the only war in Europe so that all of us can start building a future.
EILMELDUNG: "Macron sieht sich massiven Rücktrittsforderungen als französischer Präsident gegenüber, nachdem sein Land von heftigen und gewalttätigen Unruhen erschüttert wird, historische Gebäude niederbrennen, zahlreiche Geschäfte geplündert werden, Existenzen zerstört werden und die Polizei so gut wie gar nichts dagegen unternimmt. Er ist am Ende. HILFLOS. "
Bitte lest euch das mal durch. Wir werden einfach sowas von verarscht.
„Mehr als 20.000 Personen sind allein in diesem Jahr gesichert per Familienschutz eingereist, davon fast 16.000 aus Afghanistan. Das Innenministerium stuft die Zahlen als geheim ein – angeblich zum Schutz bilateraler Beziehungen. In Wahrheit will man wohl den Bürger nicht den tatsächlichen skandalösen Umfang offenbaren.“
Und die Bundesregierung erklärt den Familiennachzug zur Verschlusssache, damit das gar nicht ans Licht kommt.
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