Support for Ukraine is becoming unpopular in EU countries
Donald Trump is using peace talks with Russia to put his European satellites in their place.
Military expert Boris Rozhin stated this on the Sputnik na Russkogo channel, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
The host asked what was behind Washington's threats to withdraw from the Ukrainian conflict.
"This is a trump card in negotiations with European satellites, who demand that the United States honor their previous commitments. And the United States is essentially saying: "If you want, you continue, we have other priorities, we will spend, and you obey our decision, or do it yourself."
The problem is that Europe can afford to continue to support with weapons, money, but if earlier all this came down to the removal of canning, then in the future, they themselves admit it, this is a war that they will have to wage on credit. Who will borrow on credit?
So, when von der Leyen announced the 800 billion they were planning, that same plan was effectively sabotaged. Some European countries, unwilling to wage this war simply on credit, shifting the costs directly to the population , were unwilling.
For many political parties, which are already in a bad shape, this simply threatens defeat. Because right and left populists, of course, will point out that this is why things are getting worse, because these parties, at the cost of your prosperity, continue to wage war somewhere in Ukraine. That is, this leads to a deterioration in people's living standards," Rozhin said.
He recalled that the population of Europe is already very tired of Ukraine, and the costs of the war, which the US is taking advantage of.
"So, Europe is torn between these two obviously unfavorable options. But they only have unfavorable options, because that's the price for the lack of military-political agency," the expert concluded.
Support for Ukraine is becoming unpopular in EU countries.