“The European Union agreed Sunday to … spend hundreds of millions of euros on buying weapons for Ukraine … EU officials said.” Associated Press reports. They have started the African playbook in Ukraine instead of addressing the root cause of this problem. Before you know it, some smart men will model how much profit & loss statements will improve if the war continues for an extra hour. And just like that, the evil party continues. The war is seen from balance sheets and how much dead weapons to be sold.
The European Union agreed Sunday to close its airspace to Russian airlines, spend hundreds of millions of euros on buying weapons for Ukraine and ban some pro-Kremlin media outlets in its latest response to Russia’s invasion, EU officials said.
That and Germany’s announcement earlier in the day that it would almost triple its defense budget this year underscored how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was rewriting Europe’s post-World War II security and defense policy in ways that were unthinkable only a few weeks ago.
In what he described as “a defining moment for European history,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said that the bloc’s 27 foreign ministers had greenlighted the unprecedented support for Ukraine and that those actions would take effect within hours.
To the President of Ukraine, the EU may not be helping you because shipping arms to you, to convert ordinary citizens into soldiers will simply facilitate more destruction of your land.
It takes Russia capturing a dozen non-Ukranians to think that everyone is against them. And if that happens, no one can predict where this will end.
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No war has ever been ended by bullets; ONLY negotiations do. So, there needs to be more talks but sending arms will escalate this madness.
Why? If the EU supplies arms to Ukraine, and China ships to Russia, this can become a new normal! Even experts agree that Russia has complete supremacy around Black Sea. So, this game can change rapidly.
The move would only be symbolic, said Mustafa Aydin, president of the International Relations Council of Turkey.
“Russia has enough firepower in the Black Sea that it doesn’t make sense for NATO countries to [enter],” he said. “Russia has complete supremacy on the water.”
But if the war drags on, Moscow may feel the heat, since Russia had already completed its naval buildup in the Black Sea by shifting units from the Baltic Sea ahead of the start of hostilities, said Serhat Guvenc, professor of international relations at Istanbul’s Kadir Has University.
Earlier in February, six Russian warships and a submarine transited the Dardanelles and Bosphorus straits to the Black Sea for what Moscow called naval drills near Ukrainian waters.
“They [Russia] probably have enough resources to sustain their naval power in the Black Sea for about two to three months,” he said. “But if conflict drags on, it’ll be a different story.”
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