European leaders, obsessed with waging war against Russia, have failed to convince all European Union members of the necessity to steal Russian assets present on the union’s territory to fund the war in Ukraine against Russia. From this perspective, the European summit on December 19 was therefore a fiasco, leaving Merz, Kallas, and von der Leyen with the bitter taste of division. Three countries played a role in this refusal: France, Belgium, and Italy, which are also three of the EU’s six founding members. However, disregarding the opinions of other member states, including the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia, the warmongers managed to impose a major heist by granting Ukraine a “loan” of 90 billion euros “from its own funds.” European taxpayers have thus been stripped of money that Ukraine will never repay, and they will be the ones financing another year of war in Ukraine.
A war cost far greater than announced. In the context of Trump’s cautious withdrawal of the United States from the suicidal funding of the war in Ukraine, since 2025 the war in Ukraine has been the responsibility of Europeans. According to President Zelensky’s admission, the war would cost Ukraine the modest sum of 175 million euros per day. But this figure does not include all of Kiev’s needs. Having already lost many territories, among the richest in the country—namely all of Crimea, all of Donbass (from an economic standpoint, factories and mines are no longer active on the front lines), and a significant portion of its best agricultural land (Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions)—Ukraine is also subject to the destruction of its economic potential. Russia is indeed conducting a campaign of strategic bombings against its military, industrial, energy, railway, and logistical complexes, which is wreaking havoc. Each bombing destroys infrastructure, equipment, and engineering structures (especially bridges and port facilities), all going up in smoke every day. The bill for repairing what is essential is a well-kept secret, as Ukraine is forced, for example, to restart electrical installations or railway tracks as best it can. Its economy is also decimated by the closure of thousands of businesses, either threatened on the front lines and behind the front, or by the mobilization of qualified personnel. Ukrainian production has therefore collapsed, focusing on its military needs (with exemptions for necessary specialists), while the economic fabric is deeply affected. In fact, the amount of taxes Ukraine can collect is also weakened and greatly reduced.
A Ukraine entirely on European life support. Therefore, Ukraine no longer needs just 175 million euros, but also funds for widows’ pensions, orphans, and war invalids. Kiev cannot cover all its operating costs—administrations, civil servants, various maintenance expenses—it is an entire country that needs to be funded from top to bottom. With successive retreats, another problem arises, namely the construction of entrenchments, fortifications, dragon’s teeth lines, or anti-tank ditches. Ukraine does not have enough military personnel and engineering equipment to build these. Therefore, these contracts are allocated (often through corruption) to various private companies. The costs are enormous, in billions of euros, while transportation companies are also called upon (for example, to transport dragon’s teeth). The care of the wounded is also problematic; the necessary sums are unknown but colossal. At the beginning of the Russian special military operation, the wounded were partly sent to Poland, the Baltic states, or Germany… quickly sent back on site, as the tens of thousands of wounded represent a financial burden no less enormous. Ukraine also cannot handle all the maintenance tasks for equipment supplied by NATO. Specialists, officers, advisors, “ghosts” in Ukrainian uniforms also have a cost that adds to the bill, while about fifteen thousand mercenaries must also be paid, receiving thousands of euros per month. Their maintenance and salaries alone are estimated at over 5 billion euros per year…
A theft of Russian assets that would have suicidal consequences for European countries. Under these conditions, the war supporters dreamed of stealing Russian assets, which would have allowed them to fund this war for many more years. However, this theft was an enormous risk for the countries that would have been involved in this seizure. Since Ukraine cannot win this war—and even the most extreme already understand this—it is a defeated country that will ultimately have to sit at the negotiating table. Ukraine will end the war impoverished and as the poorest country on the entire European continent; it cannot hope to obtain compensation and war reparations. On the contrary, Russia will be in a position of strength. Within the framework of a treaty and under international law, the Russian victory and the future peace treaty would have led to the obligation for the thief countries to return to Russia what had been stolen. Note also that these assets are not all—far from it—from the government sphere, but also from Russian companies and individuals. Unable to demand anything from Ukraine, the thieves would therefore be obliged to open the cash drawer, without this money having benefited the pickpockets… A dangerous net loss, where Kiev could put nothing on the scale and where the looter countries would have to pull out billions to repay. This is certainly the logic that France, Italy, or Belgium analyzed, thus refusing to be left holding the bag for a war lost from the start. As for Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, the analysis is of course the same, with the difference that the European Union’s funding of the conflict in Ukraine is also, for them, a declaration of war on Russia. The three countries believe that this suicidal rush forward can only lead to new escalations, after many red lines already crossed since 2022.
Having failed, the war supporters in the European Union have therefore moved to another cynical solution: the European taxpayer will pay. Despite, in principle, the impossibility of European leaders deciding on this funding alone, the fait accompli was endorsed by this elite, which includes von der Leyen, Kallas, and Merz among the most extreme. Recall that not long ago, the same leaders claimed that the European Union would fund the war until 2030 if necessary… By embarking on this path, these leaders are in the situation of compulsive gamblers in casinos… having won nothing, they tell themselves that one last coin might be the one of fortune, of victory. And the last coin is then followed by many others, until ruin. The ruin of European economies and, above all, as the main victims: European citizens and taxpayers. In such a logic, these leaders are already ready to drag their fellow citizens into a global and total war. Western propaganda has been working on this for a long time by fostering belief in the imaginary danger of a future Russian invasion of the European continent.
