What’s That? Some European countries assert that Zelensky and his “country” are behaving like a drowning man. And, moreover, they are threatening to withdraw support from the neo-Nazi regime. Objections are rising over the flood of “refugees” from the Ukraine into the European Union (EU). Some American politicians are balking at writing another blank check to support a failing government and a failing “state”.
Look at the Unfortunate Details. The Ukraine continually seeks preferential treatment from other countries, no matter the cost. Zelensky its “president” is pressuring the EU to admit a flood of Ukrainian grain, no matter the effect on other countries’ agriculture. He insists that not doing so aids the Russian Federation. Polish President Andrej Duda noted at the United Nations that “By suing Warsaw over the embargo on Ukrainian grain, Kiev is behaving like a “drowning man” threatening to pull down one of its main supporters in its conflict with Russia”. Duda went on to say “This is a bit like the situation between Poland and Ukraine now…” What he did not say was that the Ukraine has no consideration for other nations’ domestic issues. According to ABC News, “Now, Polish officials, who are trying to win parliamentary elections next month with help from farmers' votes, are expressing dismay over some of Ukraine's latest moves, including a World Trade Organization complaint over bans on Ukrainian grain from Poland and two other EU countries [Hungary and Slovakia].” RT added that “Poland may cut its support for Ukraine in its conflict with Russia over the growing grain dispute between the two Eastern European countries, Szymon Szynkowski vel Sek, Warsaw’s minister for EU affairs, has said.”
Andrej Duda, Polish President
According to RT, Thierry Breton, EU Commissioner for Internal Markets, has said that 10 million Ukrainian refugees [roughly one-quarter of the “country’s” 2014 population] have flooded the Union. Breton went on to say that “In early March 2022, shortly after the start of the conflict between Moscow and Kiev, the EU for the first time in its history invoked the Temporary Protection Directive, which can be used only in exceptional circumstances to deal with a “mass influx of refugees.” In context though, the Directive is most advantageous for those fleeing Zelensky’s destruction of the Ukraine: “The legislation guarantees Ukrainians access to accommodation, welfare, and healthcare and gives them the right to enter the labor market, and enroll children in educational institutions.”
Thierry Breton, EU Commissioner for Internal Markets
Naturally, this will negatively impact the EU’s economy, already slumping from American and Bloc sanctions on the Russian Federation. Ten million refugees will compete for jobs with native Europeans as well as other migrants from other regions. They will drain the collective public purse for, as noted above, housing, social services, education, along with language and technical training.
And the United States? RT has reported that “US House [of Representatives] Speaker Kevin McCarthy has refused to commit another $24 billion to Ukraine, telling reporters that he “has questions” for Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky first.” Bluntly, McCarthy asked ““Is Zelensky elected to Congress?”…Is he our president? I don’t think I have to commit anything and I think I have questions for him.” [The U.S. supposedly has given Zelensky $113 billion in aid to date, including $43 billion in arms.]
American support for funding the war against the Russian Federation is beginning to fail across the board: in Congress, and among the public, as the Democrat-oriented and D.C.-located Brookings Institution think-tank noted. “…[S]upport for aid to Ukraine has narrowed as well as shrunk. Sixty-two percent of Democrats back additional funding, compared to 44% of Independents and just 28% of Republicans. The ideological pattern is much the same: Additional funding is supported by 69% of liberals but only 44% of moderates and 31% of conservatives. Among age cohorts, voters ages 65 and older strongly support continued funding (58%), perhaps because of their formative experience during the Cold War, but Americans younger than 65 reject more funding. Only 39% of voters ages 50 to 64 support more funding, and 37% of those ages 35-49. (Support among voters under age 35 is somewhat higher — 46% — but well short of a majority.) College graduates are more supportive of additional aid than are those without college degrees, but in neither case does support achieve a majority.”
COMMENT: Some of Brookings’ information is encouraging but there is much there that is discouraging. “Liberal” Democrats want more war! Younger people, under 35, NOT subject to any kind of conscription, like an undeclared, illegal, and unconstitutional conflict. And college graduates, supposedly taught to think and reason, favor bloodshed.
And moving to the Moon or Mars is not an option.
J. Michael Springmann is an attorney, author, political commentator, and former diplomat, with postings to Germany, India, and Saudi Arabia. He previously authored, Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World: An Insider’s View, recounting how the U.S. created and used Islamic Terrorism. Additionally, he penned Goodbye, Europe? Hello, Chaos? Merkel’s Migrant Bomb, an analysis of the alien wave sweeping the Continent. He currently practices law in the Washington D.C. Area. He is a frequent commentator on Arab, Iranian, and Russian news programs.
Blacklisted by US news media, he is also on the Ukraine’s “Enemies List”, having questioned, inter alia, the country’s refusal to honor the Minsk Accords and for stating that its government is Nazified.