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Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic should have no place in an EU under assault by Russia. Forget about the rules - a hybrid war is underway and these countries are siding with the enemy. Their opinions should not be taken into account. At the very least, suspension is merited.
If we choose to. Ukraine has been able to withstand the pain of war but we who are asked to do much less could be the weak link.
I agree. I also suspect McWilliams is one of those whom I referred to earlier, who would want to see any EU action as a failure.
Word Salad are that fella's middle names. How he's still given airtime is beyond me.
He's about to try Putrid's trick, vastly increasing the powers of the president before taking that job. I'm as confident in the likelihood of free and fair elections in Hungary as I am of them in Turkey. Just arrest the opposition, it's worked in India, Orcistan, Belarus, Turkey, pre Maidan Ukraine… never seems to fail.
Brace yourself…
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-offered-250m-run-third-term-11226316
Orban will hopefully be gone next year also.
IMO , I do not see the lack of a decision to’ release ‘ the Ru #€ 210 Bn assets as a failure. It is the nature of the EU in how decision making is structured , fact that you are dealing with 20 + soverign states, etc, etc, etc, that decisions take more time to reach than if one is dealing with a dictorship. I assume that the issue will be kept on the agenda in the hope that things will change over the next few months/ years.
Also, IMO , I assume that the €210 Bn is not needed right now because the EU approved €90Bn will be sufficient for Ukr to ‘keep going’ for the next year or two. And , hopefully, the €210 Bn issue will be resolved in Ukr’s favour. We can safely assume that there ARE A LOT of things going on behind the scene that we may never know about
As an Australian, I find Irish people criticising the EU for how little it's done for Ukraine, or how badly it's done things, sick making.
90bn is small change anyway.
EU GDP is 20 trillion.
We can fund Ukraine indefinitely.
We've been "agitating for peace " even before the war started.
Seems the new Chech Republic government are ex KGB members.
Total change from the last government who coughed up 1.8 million shells.
Expect no help from them. Russias influence in the world knows no bounds it seems .
Swedes called it days ago.
"The Coalition of the Waiting" as I heard them described
How come the videos showing life in Russkiy Mir are always tedious, pointless "appeals to the Tzar" or variations on the theme of vodka-fuelled stupidity, rather than something like this?
From the Kyiv Post:
Ukraine’s iconic Christmas carol “Shchedryk” was performed at one of DTEK’s heavily damaged thermal power plants as part of a public appeal urging the international community to strengthen support for Ukraine’s energy sector amid ongoing Russian attacks.[…]The performance, filmed at the destroyed facility, was organized as part of a joint initiative by DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private energy company, and the cultural project Svitlo Concert. The video was released as winter deepens and Ukraine’s power system continues to operate under pressure from repeated strikes on energy infrastructure.In a statement accompanying the video, DTEK said the performance was intended as a message to the world, highlighting both the scale of destruction to Ukraine’s energy facilities and the resilience of those working to keep electricity and heat available during the war.
Ukraine’s iconic Christmas carol “Shchedryk” was performed at one of DTEK’s heavily damaged thermal power plants as part of a public appeal urging the international community to strengthen support for Ukraine’s energy sector amid ongoing Russian attacks.
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The performance, filmed at the destroyed facility, was organized as part of a joint initiative by DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private energy company, and the cultural project Svitlo Concert. The video was released as winter deepens and Ukraine’s power system continues to operate under pressure from repeated strikes on energy infrastructure.
In a statement accompanying the video, DTEK said the performance was intended as a message to the world, highlighting both the scale of destruction to Ukraine’s energy facilities and the resilience of those working to keep electricity and heat available during the war.
Clearly a typo there for a start as the assets obviously remain frozen. How he thinks the EU stumping up 90bn for the Ukrainian war effort means they will 'agitate for peace…quickly' is beyond me. The rest of it is just a word salad with a lot of /'s.
Or maybe best to hold them to fund the reconstruction.
The only ones who see it as an EU 'failure' are those who want to see it as such, and wish to the EU generally to 'fail'. Many of them would probably also have been complaining if the EU had actually decided to use the frozen assets.
It's a bit of a messy compromise, and it's open to the criticism that they caved to Russian intimidation, but the bottom line is that Ukraine gets enough money to stay afloat for the moment, and they get to fight on. In six months' time, if the war is still in full swing, will anyone even remember last night's events?
This war will go on for years unfortunately.
The next US election is vital.
Hopefully someone normal is elected.
Putin has some kind of hold over Trump.
It's amazing how much influence Russia can exert even when they're on their knees. The West will come to regret this.
The EU should tough it out for 3 years and hope the next US president is on board.
David McWilliams take: "Massive climbdown by the EU last night on not freezing Russian assets. EU stumpting up 90 billion & will now, most probably, agitate for peace with Russia quickly. Lots of things in play now. US/EU, US /Russia, EU/Moscow, EU/Ukraine."
It's something so thats good.
Seems like they're hitting more oil infrastructure now that oil prices have dropped and stabilized.
I had the thought that Trump's motive in Venezuela is to interfere with oil prices.
Furthermore, if it's confirmed that the Kremlin is posting GRU/military/paramilitary personnel on civilian vessels, that makes all those vessels legitimate military targets. One could argue that they might be used as a platform for launching, oh, I dunno, "military grade" drones into the flight path of a Ukrainian presidential 'plane. Hypothetically.
re Putin threatening to sue Belgium if it allows Russian financial ‘assets’ being ‘stolen and used to finance Ukr exchequer. With regards to the legal situation , is there a difference between the above and Russia seizing assets of foreign companies. Eg aeroplanes, businesses in The Ru Federation. Is there a didpfferwnce in principal ? Also, do courts currently exist that it is within their brief to handle such claims in both of the above senarios
Fingers crossed.
Another oil rig hit
Best way to enforce sanctions is with drones
Rumours the head of the Russian military intelligence (of such a thing exists) was killed on that drone strike on the tanker. Along with several high profile GRU members.
All rumours, but damn if true, he's a close confidant of Putin.
Depends. Stupid Americans probably think most of it.
how much will be skimmed off the top of that 90bn once it reaches Ukraine i wonder?
