Editor's note: America needs to ditch Europe and if it isn't obvious by now it should be including disbanding the
Atlantic Council. To what extent the US is behind pushing the EU to war on Russia is hard to discern but what is clear is that Russia has dumped Europe and wants nothing to do with the EU. The trade wars are intensifying with
Russia and Ukraine ending five decades of
gas transit to Europe. As this continues watch for more and more smaller European countries like
Slovakia (see
Slovakia: Suddenly the Most Important EU Country? A Venue for Peace. Richard C. Cook) break away as they consider joining BRICS. And as far as Ukraine is concerned it is
wholesale theft of US aid much of it washed back into the US under the Biden corporate syndicate. The empire will do everything it can including
looting its own treasury by dumping billions into Ukraine to protect its hegemony (a shifting global balance of power).
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A Trump-Putin Deal Over Ukraine Does Not Look Good for Europe
By
Ricardo Martins | December 30, 2024
"
Stop pushing Zelensky into peace talks", tells EU Foreign Affairs chief to European leaders. For the EU, a negotiated peace deal is a win for Putin and a defeat for Europe. Understand the reasons.
Europe has invested too much to settle for 'just' a peace deal: the goal was to crush Russia
The total amount of military aid to Ukraine since the beginning of the conflict in February 2022 amounts to
$119 billion, including 62 billion from the U.S., as confirmed by Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin.
The amount allocated under the humanitarian label is more than double.