Not surprisingly, this Thursday (23 April), the so-called loan to Ukraine was approved — and now European taxpayers* have 90,000,000,000 reasons to celebrate!
And that's only the beginning: the yearly interest for this will add another 3,000,000,000 reasons on top of that. Every year.
At the same time — and we could even say "automagically" — the oil flow through the Druzhba pipeline was resumed.
"The sought-after breakthrough came two days after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that the Druzhba pipeline, which carries cheap Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia, had been repaired and could resume operations"
This, after Zelensky said that it would take months to repair and refused any inspection of the purported damages. Even more, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was personally against reinstating transit of Russian oil through Ukraine as the war continues. But now it's different, right?
The interruption of oil flows through Druzhba was at the core of Orbán's decision to veto the €90 billion loan in February. The last-minute blockage outraged other EU leaders, who furiously condemned it as an "unacceptable" attempt to "blackmail."
It's an extremely interesting point of view: Hungary's action (led at that point in time by Viktor Orbán) is seen as "blackmail," but Ukraine's actions to block the transit and threaten the economic situation of an EU member state are not. Ursula and the whole EU authoritarian structure encouraged this behavior and are more likely to punish a member than the hostile actions of a non-EU, non-NATO state.
Going further, they're even rewarding Zelenskyy with €90 billion, on top of all the billions wasted so far. More money to steal, more lives to be lost, more Ukrainians to be dragged from the streets to the frontlines.
Promises made, promises kept.
*excluding Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
