Finian Cunningham
Another boondoggle scam to launder billions through the never-ending racket that is the proxy war in Ukraine against Russia.
Yeah, you guessed right. It's another boondoggle scam to launder billions through the never-ending racket that is the proxy war in Ukraine against Russia.
Amazingly, this latest farce comes on the heels of what even Western media had to report was a brazen $100 million rip-off of Western taxpayers by the Kiev regime, involving cronies of the puppet president, Vladimir Zelensky. Although the Western media have endeavored to cover up for Zelensky as somehow trying to clean up the scandal. He's cleaning up alright: the money and loose ends, not the rot.
We now see self-appointed president Zelensky going on a massive splurge to buy warplanes.
How is this farce possible? How can such flagrant theft of public money be permitted? Because Western leaders and media are either complicit in the racket or blinded beyond common sense by brainwashed Russophobia.
It is a misconception that Zelensky and his corrupt cabal are acting as some kind of parasitical appendage, siphoning off Western aid unbeknownst to Western governments. This massive racket is being permitted knowingly by Western authorities in a mutually organized rip-off of historic proportions. It is ordinary Western citizens, workers, and their families who will pay with generations of indebtedness and broken economies.
So, in the latest episode of the ongoing war-racket pantomime, Zelensky makes a quick costume change and flies to Paris this week to sign a deal with French ex-Rothschild banker President Emmanuel Macron for the delivery of 100 Rafale fighter jets. Each jet costs about €100 million. Total price tag: around €10 billion.
Earlier this month, the Kiev regime announced it was buying 150 Gripen 4th-generation fighter planes from Sweden. At €213 million each, that bill comes to over €30 billion.
While Zelensky is racking up his Christmas shopping cart with €40 billion of warplanes, this week, the European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, wrote letters to all heads of the 27 EU member states appealing for drastic financing measures to support bankrupt Ukraine.
Von der Leyen wants the European Union to donate €137 billion over the next two years to cover Ukraine's bankrupt economy. She said, "There are no easy options." Meaning: Europe will have to do this.
According to Euronews' reporting of Von der Leyen's calculations, Ukraine needs €83.4 bn for military spending and €55.2 bn to run its economy during 2026 and 2027, and Europe must plug this gap.
Nowhere is there any proposal to, say, end the war and engage in diplomacy for peace with Russia.
Von der Leyen writes: "As Russia's aggression [sic] continues and the costs of war mount, Ukraine's financial resilience is eroding. Without sustained and scaled-up support in 2026 and beyond, Ukraine seriously risks economic impasse, undermining its capacity to defend itself and maintain essential state functions."
Right, so the highest official of the European Union, who, by the way, is selected for the €336,000 salaried post, not democratically elected, is telling us that Ukraine is financially broke from the proxy war, and that the EU, which Ukraine is not a member of, will have to bankroll it for the next two years. That's the scam, right there.
Since the proxy war erupted nearly four years ago, the EU taxpayers have propped up the Kiev regime with an official figure of €186 bn. That averages at about €46.5 bn per year. Over the next two years, von der Leyen wants the EU taxpayers to fork out another €67.5 bn a year to support a corrupt, unelected NeoNazi regime headed by a nominally Jewish puppet. In other words, the costs of this ideological showdown with Russia are going through the roof. Costs that will be borne by European citizens, not the likes of von der Leyen, Macron, Merz, and their elitist ilk.
Here's the question. If Ukraine is such a financial ruin, how is it going on a splurge to buy €40 bn worth of warplanes from France and Sweden?
Obviously, the unspoken part is that the price tag is being billed to the European Union citizens. So European citizens who are being told to live with economic austerity, cutbacks in essential public services, slashed pensions and other basic social welfare benefits, enduring higher food bills and other living costs, and so on, are on top of all that being corralled into paying eye-watering subsidies to the French, Swedish, and other European military corporations and their wealthy shareholders.
This is despotism, not democracy.
European societies are being robbed blind by the Kiev mafia and the European ruling class, who are dictating that the heist becomes a long-term, systematic arrangement beyond reproach and democratic accountability.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán seems to be one of the few European leaders with any practical intelligence. He said about von der Leyen's latest diktat: "It's astounding... at a time when it has become clear that a war mafia [in Kiev] is siphoning off European taxpayers' money, the Commission President suggests we send even more." He added: "It's like trying to help an alcoholic by sending them another crate of vodka."
Orbán's metaphor is bitingly amusing. But not quite correct. It doesn't convey the bigger problem that the alcoholic is not merely the Kiev regime. It is the entire European political class that is addicted to war and the swindling of public money for the elitist-enriching system.
The proxy war and the Kiev regime are only symptoms of the deeper disease that is militarized corporate capitalism at the rotten heart of Western states.