Ukraine has been left exposed on the front lines — running out of ammunition and men — while its energy system now faces an onslaught that is exposing its depleted air defenses.
why does America have to do everything? the EU will be far more negatively impacted if Russia wins (energy, food, trade in general) - why arent the EU member states doing more?
Because America spent a lot of time trading security for political points. Nobody is interested in having given the points and now also have to do the security.
In recent years EU countries have been growing their armies and relying less on America, but nobody is ready to fight Russia. If America actually started withdrawing its promises and overseas assets, europe would wake up; but america doesn’t want that.
It’s political influence and favors. “Let us use your roads and airspace to go wage war in this country, we’ll give you a good deal on your exports”. “Let us keep a base here and help us maintain it, we’ll be a military presence for you”. “Please stop buying gas from this psychopath and we will help you economically in Ukraine”.
A lot of these deals are based on trust between leaders.
EU should be heavily investing in this war… unless they already decided the fate of ukraine and are letting the efforts against Russia to stall. Each country is different anyway, some have to balance arm exports with the reaction of the people political support, others may be fearing a future escalation of the war if Ukraine ends collapsing and prefer to arm themselves.
Just as the efforts to achieve net zero emissions: its all just acting, nobody will move a finger when the moment of action comes.
Issue is, the Hungarian far-right wants its ancient lands back, some of it is Transcarpatia. Beyond that, once Russia destroys Ukraine with its culture, they’ll have some basis on doing the same with Slovakia.
why does America have to do everything? the EU will be far more negatively impacted if Russia wins (energy, food, trade in general) - why arent the EU member states doing more?
Read some history and find out why the US is called the arsenal of Democracy.
Because America spent a lot of time trading security for political points. Nobody is interested in having given the points and now also have to do the security.
In recent years EU countries have been growing their armies and relying less on America, but nobody is ready to fight Russia. If America actually started withdrawing its promises and overseas assets, europe would wake up; but america doesn’t want that.
What are political points?
It’s political influence and favors. “Let us use your roads and airspace to go wage war in this country, we’ll give you a good deal on your exports”. “Let us keep a base here and help us maintain it, we’ll be a military presence for you”. “Please stop buying gas from this psychopath and we will help you economically in Ukraine”.
A lot of these deals are based on trust between leaders.
EU should be heavily investing in this war… unless they already decided the fate of ukraine and are letting the efforts against Russia to stall. Each country is different anyway, some have to balance arm exports with the reaction of the people political support, others may be fearing a future escalation of the war if Ukraine ends collapsing and prefer to arm themselves.
Just as the efforts to achieve net zero emissions: its all just acting, nobody will move a finger when the moment of action comes.
Issue is, the Hungarian far-right wants its ancient lands back, some of it is Transcarpatia. Beyond that, once Russia destroys Ukraine with its culture, they’ll have some basis on doing the same with Slovakia.