Dubbed “Rearm Europe,” the remarks from the European Commission’s president came hours after President Donald Trumpsuspended all U.S. military aid to Ukraine, widening the gulf between Washington and Kyiv and going against the fresh commitments of support from Europe for Ukraine in recent days.
“I do not need to describe the grave nature of the threats that we face, or the devastating consequences that we will have to endure if those threats would come to pass,” von der Leyen told reporters.
I was wondering when this topic would surface. It’s crazy this is where we are.
I’m sure glad we have to do this instead of fighting Climate Change and microplastics so we don’t become extinct within a century.
Arming up for ww3
May Europe preserve democracy and Ukrainian sovereignty. This administration would seem to be against both.
I really wish we could boat Canada over to Europe; or at least push it far out into the ocean like Australia. Feels like being duct taped to a meth’d up serial killer right now
If you can get everyone to jump into the Hecate Strait and swim while pushing…
Europeans, I wish you Godspeed in this new landscape. You guys managed to come together. How insane is that. Wars that were bloody as all hell, and y’all hugged it out in the end.
I think y’all can be greater than the US militarily, socially, and definitely academically. I really hope you guys can dissuade Russia from wiping out Ukraine, and can stay strong until we clean up the problem here. If we’re able and aren’t all executed for dissent.
Zelensky is already caving to Trump:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cge1qq4jdxdo
Guess maybe do it for the next country Russia invades.
I don’t see that as “caving”.
Yeah seems more like a last ditch effort to keep the US on Ukraine’s side
I don’t even think it’s that. It simply isn’t possible to keep the US on their side while the country is being run by Russian lap dogs. What he can do is play along so there isn’t anything to support Trump’s bullshit attempts to paint Zelenskyy as a warmongering dictator who doesn’t want a peaceful resolution.
It’s not going to stop Trump from wanting to join the war on the side of his Daddy Vladdy, but playing ball makes it harder to justify doing so.
I hope this is a pausing strategy.
A few more days to see what shakes out of the EU and other allies.
EU and US are about equal for contributions:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crew8y7pwd5oConsidering that the eu is looking at €800bn spending to help arm Ukraine (https://apnews.com/article/europe-defense-ukraine-united-states-trump-c1f12e685afc3e2ca94c9a15ea28d8bb) I don’t blame Ukraine for stalling to see what happens.
Monitarily, the EU is the biggest ally. The US is the biggest single ally, but not the biggest ally.
I expect big things from the EU in the next few days, and - in a dream scenario - Zelensky goes back to the white house to “capitulate” and tells them to fuck themselves on live television.
Because you KNOW trump wants Zelensky bending-the-knee to be televisedEU and US are about equal for contributions
One difference is that the US contributions have largely been equipment that was close to being decommissioned, which costs money on its own.
This does not make that contributions less important, but should cost the taxpayer much less and was already allocated by the military budget.
