{"id":1617,"date":"2026-06-30T19:56:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T19:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/2026\/06\/30\/the-eu-cant-fix-europe-but-it-can-fund-kiev-forever\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T19:56:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T19:56:01","slug":"the-eu-cant-fix-europe-but-it-can-fund-kiev-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/?p=1617","title":{"rendered":"The EU can\u2019t fix Europe \u2013 but it can fund Kiev forever"},"content":{"rendered":"

While railways stall, hospitals fail and scandals spread, Brussels still finds endless billions for its pet proxy war<\/strong><\/p>\n

NATO-EU Europe, that tense, unhappy realm of deeply unpopular yet aggressively doctrinaire centrist regimes, has many grifts.<\/p>\n

Its elites, whether national or EU, in business, politics, and the mainstream media and think-tank sinecure system are stunningly inept when it comes to addressing the urgent, even vital problems of their subjects. They could not care less about critical economic decline and general impoverishment, crumbling infrastructure, withering education, and scarce, unequal health care, to name only a few.<\/p>\n

But the same elites are endlessly creative and tirelessly busy when looking after themselves, from top to bottom. Recent and countless examples of this ever more shameless divergence between not doing their job of looking after the public interest, on one side, and extensive as well as exclusive \u201cself-care,\u201d<\/em> on the other, are easy to come by.<\/p>\n

Concerning the self-care, we have, for instance, just entered the umpteenth iteration of Ursula von der Leyen \u2013 the German boss of the EU doing double duty as US viceroy \u2013 illegally deleting the evidence of her very shady deals, from the Corona pandemic (\u2018Pfizergate<\/a>\u2019) to the Mercosur trade scheme<\/a> to Ukraine and handling US President Donald Trump (the \u2018Washington Group<\/a>\u2019).<\/p>\n

In Germany, the second-most powerful man in the ruling (if barely) mainstream conservative party, Jens Spahn, has just been exposed as a long-time associate of a secretive network<\/a> linked to US oligarch \u2013 and Antichrist obsessive \u2013 Peter Thiel. That\u2019s a new one. Before that, Spahn was mostly known for his extremely suspect and certainly enormously wasteful<\/a> wheeling and dealing during the pandemic.<\/p>\n

Across the Channel, meanwhile, Great Britain is still one of the largest money laundries in the world. According to a fresh report<\/a>, it is handling a whopping \u00a3325 billion of dirty money per year, equivalent to 10% of its GDP.<\/p>\n

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Zelensky to skip key \u2018Ukraine recovery\u2019 event over Nazi-collaborator scandal<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Regarding letting the public realm go to hell, the entire railway grid of Germany has just gone kaput<\/em> for a night, with hundreds of trains stranded. And no, not because of sabotage by big bad Russia (and this time even the Ukrainians stayed away from German infrastructure), but a combination of sheer homemade incompetence and decades of deliberate neglect<\/a>. In Britain, a thorough, forensic report has just revealed that more than 500 mothers and babies were hurt or died<\/a> as a result of years of systemic negligence and cruelty in two public health care institutions. France, meanwhile, is rocked by a massive scandal involving the severe abuse of minors at dozens of state kindergartens and primary schools.<\/p>\n

In a situation like this, you\u2019d think that even the most selfish, conformist, and tunnel-visioned elites would see the need to act, even if only to ensure self-preservation. And act, it turns out, they can: for Ukraine, that is. Or to be precise, not really for Ukraine, if by that you understand ordinary Ukrainians, but for the ultra-corrupt and de facto authoritarian regime currently in power in Kiev. That is the real message of the last Ukraine Recovery Conference just held in the Polish city of Gdansk: The proxy war must go on, at any price.<\/p>\n

Money matters: According to Kiev, the two-day conference resulted in the signing of 160 agreements worth \u20ac10 billion<\/a>. Von der Leyen used the conference to announce the disbursement of the first, \u20ac3.2-billion tranche of a planned \u20ac90-billion \u2018loan\u2019<\/a> (one of those special ones never to be paid back, at least not by Ukraine). That, according to Von der Leyen herself, comes on top of the well over \u20ac200 billion already wasted on one of the most corrupt crony regimes in the world. She\u2019s proud of that, inconceivable as that may seem to a mentally sane European citizen. There also is a special deal with the World Bank worth another cool \u20ac3.4 billion.<\/p>\n

Lives do not<\/em> matter: The EU has taken care to make clear that yet more billions for Kiev are not a sign of compassion with ordinary Ukrainians. Indeed, at the same time as it has opened the money spigot even more, it has also signaled that, in return, the Kiev regime will keep feeding Ukrainians into the meat grinder of war. And the EU will make sure they won\u2019t get away. According to a new EU Commission (i.e. von der Leyen\u2019s personal apparat) proposal<\/a>, Ukrainian men aged 23-60 will soon find it harder to escape conscription by asking for refugee status in the EU: Stay home, young men, because it is sweet and glorious to die, well, not so much for your country really, but for the regime in Kiev that has sold you to the EU. How having even more young males killed off in a country already in deep demographic catastrophe<\/a> is supposed to promote Ukraine\u2019s \u201crecovery\u201d<\/em> will remain a mystery.<\/p>\n

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The bloody ghost behind Ukraine\u2019s fight with Poland<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Another thing that matters very little is history, or to be precise the history of Ukrainian nationalist genocidal ethnic cleansing of Poles<\/a> in World War II. Not that Polish governments have ever been anything but exceedingly generous about this past, perversely making Warsaw a champion of Ukrainian regimes, one after the other, that not only do not give a damn about these crimes but cultivate a cult around their perpetrators.<\/p>\n

Yet recently, Ukraine\u2019s current leader Vladimir Zelensky has pushed his luck a little too far by going out of his way to offend Polish sensibilities with yet another round of public honors<\/a> for Ukraine\u2019s fascist butchers of World War II. Add the fact that Poland\u2019s political leadership is currently split between a president who is not willing to accept such insults from Kiev and a prime minister who is, as well as the coincidence that this year\u2019s Ukraine Recovery Conference took place in Poland and things were bound to get difficult.<\/p>\n

Zelensky had to mail back<\/a> a high Polish state order he never deserved in the first place, and then stayed at home to sulk. Instead Ukraine\u2019s prime minister, Yulia Sviridenko, went to Poland to cash in. And that <\/em>is the larger, depressing point, for now at least: Kiev can display its fascism fetish to its heart\u2019s content, even toward Poland, a country with thousands of families who lost members to Ukrainian mass murder and where a solid 60% majority<\/a> of the population are against helping Kiev get into the EU. But it won\u2019t make a difference in the end. The grift must go on.<\/p>\n

In that sense, the Zelensky regime running Ukraine and the EU with most of its national centrist regimes are, actually, a good fit: none of them display the least interest in or respect for what their people want or need. If the Ukraine Recovery Conference has shown one thing, once again, it is that European mainstream and Ukrainian elites do have the same \u201cvalues\u201d<\/em>: absolute arrogance, corruption, and a practical contempt for democracy while abusing its name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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