🚨🚨 The Rebellion Strikes Back: European leaders are working on a military aid package for Ukraine — worth at least €20 billion — to bolster Kyiv, as the United States increasingly aligns with Moscow. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/eu-w... - ThreadSky

profjacob.bsky.social • 70 days ago

🚨🚨 The Rebellion Strikes Back: European leaders are working on a military aid package for Ukraine — worth at least €20 billion — to bolster Kyiv, as the United States increasingly aligns with Moscow. 🧵 https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-war-in-ukraine-military-aid-package-donald-trump-volodymyr-zelenskyy/

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santrfl.bsky.social•70 days ago

And european people fucked!

franceberrue.bsky.social•70 days ago

Let's just hope Trump doesn't send aid to Moscow 😔

picci0909.bsky.social•70 days ago

indar13.bsky.social•70 days ago

Unless it will be used to pay mercenaries, what will it achieve?

referencehs.bsky.social•70 days ago

I notice similar activities all around me, military exercises, weapon manufacturing, banding together. But I do think we need to expand this globally. I get the feeling Mexico is already threatened, Canada and Greenland. ALL of us should work together on this, or they'll take us out one by one.

bjorn76.bsky.social•69 days ago

The rebellion against the empire - Trump, Putin, Xi. Europeans should watch more Star Wars and so should Americans again, the ferry tale why fighting for values is worth it and why we want diversity and misfits (details aside, like the good ones are also not being a democracy).

profjacob.bsky.social•70 days ago

The planned package comes after U.S. President Donald Trump blamed his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, for the war in Ukraine, calling him a “dictator” who had tricked the U.S. into spending billions of dollars in military aid. /2

profjacob.bsky.social•70 days ago

The Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives also said Thursday there was "no appetite" in Washington to send further aid to Kyiv. The amount of European aid which would include military hardware like artillery shells & missiles as well as cash, could yet rise farther as diplomats continue

profjacob.bsky.social•70 days ago

intensive consultations ahead of a gathering of foreign ministers in Brussels on Monday. @politico.eu reported earlier this week that the package's projected value was €6 billion to €10 billion, but that amount has changed during the talks and could still evolve. /5

profjacob.bsky.social•70 days ago

The push to replenish Ukraine's arms supply is being coordinated by the bloc's top diplomat, former Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, and aims to surpass previous European commitments of military aid. Diplomats stressed that the aid, which is still being negotiated

profjacob.bsky.social•70 days ago

, would likely come in the form of pooled contributions from individual MS rather than an official EU package, given opposition from certain states, ie Hungary. The scramble comes as EU officials and leaders prepare for a group expedition to Kyiv on Monday, the 3rd anniversary of Russia's

profjacob.bsky.social•70 days ago

full-scale invasion of Ukraine. As the heads of key EU institutions and the leaders of Spain and the Nordic and Baltic states prepare to travel to Kyiv, they will be in close contact with French President Emmanuel Macron and British PM Keir Starmer, who are heading to Washington to meet with Trump.

safraser91.bsky.social•70 days ago

Europe, the sleeping giant?

ajs1977.bsky.social•70 days ago

Even without US participation & support, I find it hard to believe a force made up of NATO's other 31 members + other int'l allies (eg: Japan, Australia, NZ) couldn't expel the Russian Army from Ukraine in the same way the US-led Coalition expelled Iraq from Kuwait in 1991.
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sacredpub.bsky.social•70 days ago

Russia's defeat was never their goal. It was/is only about doing morally enough so that Ukraine can defend itself (the "as long as it takes" position).

tilmane.bsky.social•70 days ago

Good, that would be a strong signal, important will be immediate supply and also more mid range missiles to attack

damerainbowwarrior.bsky.social•70 days ago

lucycbt.bsky.social•70 days ago

They could do what Bill Browder suggested: Send the frozen Russian assets to Ukraine (about $350 billion, I believe).

indar13.bsky.social•70 days ago

https://www.highnorthnews.com/en/eu-countries-spent-close-eu7bn-russian-lng-2024

profjacob.bsky.social•70 days ago

Indeed, that is a crucial policy move.

aralski.bsky.social•70 days ago

Good. The Russian military has shown itself to be third rate when confronted with well armed, well trained, and seriously motivated troops - they would likely perform worse against a NATO force even without the US.

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