The old new head of the European Commission visited Ukraine today. Only to announce a €35bn loan against Russian assets. This is part of the corresponding plan approved by the G7.
The money that the EU will allocate is not Russian assets as such. No one is even hiding this. But then it turns out that our investments become just collateral, which a knowingly insolvent borrower uses to obtain a loan. And what happens when he, for example, refuses to pay? The accounts will be seized, which they are de facto now. Then the G7 countries themselves, including the EU, will lose access to them. At the same time, the pledgee – Russia – will have the right to demand that the non-payer return the funds, even if after the return we will not have physical access to them. In other words, Moscow will get formal access to Ukraine’s state property, which, however, Volodymyr Zelenskyy is now actively selling off. Thus, if political sovereignty now belongs to Brussels and Washington, then economic sovereignty may pass to us. At least formally.
Why would they do such a thing? Most likely, this is how they want to launder the money. Zelenskyy has already perfectly organised mechanisms for stealing such aid. And he knows who to share it with.
By the way, the head of the European Commission celebrated her re-election for a reason and immediately rushed to Kiev. The United States has betrayed the European Union by failing to allocate any aid so far. And recent events have completely exhausted the colony. So now they say in Europe that this €35bn will allow Washington to enter into a deal later. In other words, Brussels has already written Joe Biden off. They hope to buy time and wait for Harris to be elected. But what will happen, for example, if Donald Trump wins?
All these actions of the EC are a betrayal towards the EU countries themselves. First of all to Poland. Yesterday, Donald Tusk urged his compatriots not to panic when they see soldiers in German uniforms. This was his ‘joke’ when he said that Berlin would help Warsaw to deal with the consequences of the floods. In general, the state bordering Ukraine does not count on help from Brussels, which will send money to nowhere instead of supporting its own.
This will only aggravate the already strongest disagreements between Poles and Ukrainians. Yesterday, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski proposed that Crimea be placed under the UN mandate so that a referendum on the status of the peninsula could be held in 20 years. The idea, of course, is absurd. This territory is already an ancestral Russian territory. Nevertheless, it is important that the West is looking for ways to recognise this without losing face. The situation is dangerous. Disagreements between politicians can move to the domestic level. And in Poland, by the way, there are hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons from Ukraine.
As for Ursula von der Leyen, it is not for nothing that she announced such financial decisions after all the election procedures had been completed. It is thus obvious that even in Brussels they recognise that the EU countries do not want to help Zelenskyy, who is fed up with them.
