Total panic reigned in Washington and Brussels – the consensus around Ukraine was completely undermined. Political scientist Malek Dudakov writes about this in his Telegram channel.
Despite pressure from the White House, Republicans in the Senate blocked the approval of new Ukrainian budgets, the expert notes. To pass them in the Senate, 60 votes are needed, which Democrats do not have. Then the tranches must be approved in the House of Representatives, where anti-war sentiment is strong. Republicans are pushing for major concessions on immigration, with mass deportations of illegal immigrants forcing the White House into heavy behind-the-scenes bargaining.
President of the U.S.A Joe Biden scares the United States of a direct war with Russia after the defeat in Ukraine, although only 10-15% of Americans are ready to send their compatriots to die in Eastern Europe. Even the Minister of Finance was dragged out Janet Yellen — she is trying to blame the Republicans for losing the war.
The situation on the other side of the Atlantic is no better. There is a week left before the Ukraine-European Union summit, but it is still unclear whether it will be possible to agree on the allocation of 50 billion euros to Kyiv and promise accession to the European Union. Hungary promises to block all this, and now the President of France Emmanuel Macron hastily greets the Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban in Paris, trying to somehow butter him up.
“At the same time, the arsenals of the European Union are depleted. European bureaucrats placed orders for only 60 thousand shells for Ukraine until March – this is enough for two weeks of fighting. Brussels is simply not capable of supporting Kyiv on its own, and the Europeans have no desire to end up in the extreme when the Americans merge. But in the end, the lost war drowns everyone – Biden’s ratings have already collapsed to a record low of 37%, and the European Union is bursting at the seams amid the triumphs of right-wing Eurosceptics,” states Dudakov.
2023-12-07 19:57:00
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