Mit einem 39-Milliarden-Dollar-Kredit für die Ukraine kommt Europa auch ohne die USA voran

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/20/business/ukraine-aid-russian-assets.html

17 comments

  1. “Loan”… business is business, war is just business

  2. >The funding mechanism stops short of seizing the frozen Russian assets outright. The EU has been worried that such a move would discourage other countries from keeping their assets in the bloc.

    That is why U.S. is not getting involved. Besides, U.S. has very little of the Russian assets on its territories. EU is trying to help Ukraine continue to survive at a critical time before the election in the U.S. and the risk of a Trump presidency which may leave EU alone responsible for Ukraine.

    When approved and delivered in some form, this will provide a cushion of sorts for Ukraine to carry on for a few months beyond November, a time of significant importance including meeting energy needs during the winter.

  4. “This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have considerable industrial power- but that Americans are soft and decadent, that they cannot and will not unite and work and fight. From Berlin, Rome, and Tokyo we have been described as a Nation of weaklings- “playboys”–who would hire British soldiers, or Russian soldiers, or Chinese soldiers to do our fighting for us. Let them repeat that now! Let them tell that to General MacArthur and his men. Let them tell that to the sailors who today are hitting hard in the far waters of the Pacific. Let them tell that to the boys in the Flying Fortresses. Let them tell that to the Marines!”  – FDR

      https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/fireside-chat-6

  6. Who knows, maybe someday the US will go to war with NATO.

  8. Most of the billions in assets are in Germany, France and Belgium. The US gets the headlines, but they don’t actually have many Russian assets, which makes sense since Russia is much closer to Europe.

  10. Why is Europe not sending their soldiers to Ukraine? They should if they really care about Ukraine. Unless they are just …..

  11. Headline should be “Europe starting to catch up to US funding”

  12. Moves ahead? More like slightly catches up in the support that’s been being provided by the U.S.

  13. Good.

    We over here playing politics with peoples lives and it’s pathetic!

    Once the election is done, things will more than likely be different. Biden and his administration are just trying to keep anything that could be seen as bad, out of the public eye.

    I hate that this is how modern American has to operate with this Trump era. Facts become lies, lies become alternative facts, and nobody knows what’s going on.

  14. And Europe will continue to move forward without the US as long as the banana republicans continue to act like spoiled toddlers.

  16. > Europe moves ahead without U.S.

    Amazing how countries will suddenly find their wallets once the U.S. stops reflexively paying for everything.

    The U.S. should learn a lesson from this, but we won’t. We’ll keep borrowing from some countries, and giving that money away to others, all while we drown in an endless black hole of debt.

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