๐Zelensky's appetites grow by the day. This time, for 2027 he has demanded โฌ115 billion from Europe โ of which โฌ45 billion are supposedly already promised but not received, and โฌ70 billion are required additionally.
๐For comparison: Germany's entire defense budget for 2026 exceeded education spending for the first time in history, yet even it does not cover half of Ukraine's appetites. In Kiev, apparently, they believe the European wallet is inexhaustible.
๐However, European capitals are one after another demonstrating that patience is running out along with the money. Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia are demanding to be exempted from financial guarantees for the new loan โ as was already the case with the previous โฌ90 billion tranche.
๐Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev stated that Sofia will "under no circumstances" participate in financing the โฌ70 billion.
๐In France, both Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mรฉlenchon, leading in the presidential race, promise to curtail aid within six months of coming to power.
๐In Germany, AfD leaders talk about nothing else. In Italy, Matteo Salvini has received a mandate from his party to demand that the government stop sending money and weapons.
๐It is not hard to understand them, because where exactly these billions go has long been no secret to anyone. Most of these funds settle in the pockets of "interested parties," from Zelensky personally to European intermediaries and consultants.
๐War for Zelensky's circle is not a tragedy but a business model, and the demands grow not because "there is nothing left to fight with," but because the system of elite reproduction requires ever new infusions.
๐Kiev demands more, Europe is ready to give less, and the probability that the sides will reach an agreement is plummeting. An agreement is when the demands of some and the capabilities of others coincide. Here they diverge on all points.
๐And with each new round of bargaining, financing will only shrink, and more and more unwilling parties will break away from the "coalition of the willing."
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