“Nine months after invading Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is beginning to fracture the West,” Politico observes in a surprising admission which marks a stark reversal from prior mainstream media optimism and cheerleading of the White House’s blank check approach to supporting Ukraine. “Top European officials are furious with Joe Biden’s administration and now accuse the Americans of making a fortune from the war, while EU countries suffer.”
There’s clearly growing frustration among European officials over Washington’s refusal to push the Zelensky government to the negotiating table while an unprecedented billions worth of weaponry and defense aid pours in, risking unpredictable escalation between NATO and Russia. Meanwhile European populations will continue being the first to pay the price amid frigid winter temperatures and a simultaneous severe energy supply crisis even as some leaders still spout abstract ideals of “sacrifice”.
And all the while Biden has continued rolling out his controversial green subsidies and taxes which are widely perceived as unfairly punishing European industries at this most sensitive juncture.
A senior European official speaking to Politico additionally blasted the White House policy of in effect using the Ukraine war to line the pockets of American defense contractors while at the same turning a deaf ear on European pleas for some relief to the no-win situation.
“The fact is, if you look at it soberly, the country that is most profiting from this war is the U.S. because they are selling more gas and at higher prices, and because they are selling more weapons,” the senior official said.
The person acknowledged a large-scale shift in sentiment happening, largely driven by the intractable ‘win in Ukraine at all costs’ stance of the US administration:
The explosive comments — backed in public and private by officials, diplomats and ministers elsewhere — follow mounting anger in Europe over American subsidies that threaten to wreck European industry. The Kremlin is likely to welcome the poisoning of the atmosphere among Western allies.
“We are really at a historic juncture,” the senior EU official said, arguing that the double hit of trade disruption from U.S. subsidies and high energy prices risks turning public opinion against both the war effort and the transatlantic alliance. “America needs to realize that public opinion is shifting in many EU countries.”
But the US National Security Council has lately reiterated its position that the crisis is solely on Putin’s shoulders full-stop, while Washington is simply presenting ramped-up US liquefied natural gas delivery to Europe as fulfilling the need to “diversify away from Russia,” according to a NSC statement.
Even the typically compliant EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell is now questioning and showing hints of losing faith in ‘united’ efforts to support Ukraine, acknowledging to Politico, “Americans — our friends — take decisions which have an economic impact on us.”
And for a more pointed breakdown of the problem as Brussels sees it…
“The United States sells us its gas with a multiplier effect of four when it crosses the Atlantic,” European Commissioner for the Internal Market Thierry Breton said on French TV on Wednesday. “Of course the Americans are our allies… but when something goes wrong it is necessary also between allies to say it.”
Another EU diplomat cited in the Politico report described that Biden’s $369 billion industrial subsidy scheme to support green industries as part of the Inflation Reduction Act unleashed panic across European capitals.
“The Inflation Reduction Act has changed everything,” the EU diplomat said. “Is Washington still our ally or not?” This rising fury could spill into the streets as more European households are likely to experience shortages in electricity and heat this winter, further intensifying the pressure on EU politicians.
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Americans need to realize?!?!?!?!?
Most “americans”(by location only)don’t have a FUCKING clue!!!
Who they HEll are you talking to???
Well, well.
Maybe some are starting to wake up to the Cui Bono? question’s most likely answer.
Right here would be a good spot to show the EU heads that video of all the German reps laughing at DJT’s pompous warning & declaration that they would become Putin’s victims of oil dependency if they weren’t careful, a couple years back.
Other supporting evidence is the Pepe Escobar screed featured on this blog earlier this week titled Russia’s Electrical War, chock full of details and history, in an accurate evaluation of the proxy war that affects far more nations negatively, than just the Ukrainians.
The Euros could end the situation if they had a clue,
European leaders are puppets, so they will never do anything Uncle Schmuel doesn’t tell them to do…
American leaders are puppets, so they will never do anything Uncle Schmuel doesn’t tell them to do…
There — FIFY …
The same could be said for We The People Of The United States … but, as recent history has shown US, apparently we don’t have a clue, either …
Ah,but many of us do….we are educating those who are willing so our numbers grow….
US to EU:
Your accusation is false.
We’re making several fortunes, on your behalf.
Weren’t the Euroweenies all into STANDING WITH UKRAINE … NO MATTER WHAT!!! …. this past summer? Weren’t they trying to out-do each other in their willingness to SACRIFICE for Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Eukraine???
Naaaah. I must be hallucinating.
Hey, Stucky — enjoy the buzz while it lasts …
Never let a crisis go to waste or to make a buck………..
To which, Uncle Sugar replied, “What money? Blackrock got that shit!”
We fucking blew up their gas pipeline and they’re too pussified to even say it out loud. (Whether we subbed it out to the Brits is immaterial.) It’s credibly argued that the entire point of instigating the war was to fuck over Europe and steal their industry as much as possible.
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The EU has only itself to blame. They went along with this sanctions b.s. Most Americans are suffering under Joe Biden as well.
Jeez, you’d think they’d understand warmongering by now.
are they shitting us? why do they think the district of cesspools and corruption goes to war anywhere at any time other than to increase power of the pols and make money for those contributing to the accounts of pols?
get real and LEARN the truth. the u. s. govt doesn’t care about its own citizens. what makes you think it gives a shit about you, or anyone/any nation at all other than itsef?
G.R.E.E.D is the most destructive human trait. Change my mind.
or is it “I do”?
Not that I attribute intention or foresight. But increasing the cost of energy to Europe and particularly Germany, does seem to counter balance the rise in the value in the dollar.
No need for a Smoot Hauly Tariff this time.
Of course the US is making a fortune off the war, that is the whole point of it….
They’ve made more from blackmailing child diddlers , I’m sure .
When you get in bed with Deep Shekels , your bank account shrinks and your butthole expands.
A little slow on the upchuck they be.
The US rulers never do anything for altruistic or purely humanitarian reasons. There is always the “what’s in it for me” (wifm) factor for the ruling elites. So in addition to fomenting a coup in Ukraine in 2014 which turned that nation into a totally failed state, created a massive money laundering operation for the Biden family and both political parties, is the vehicle the US is using to attack Putin and Russia, it is also a way now for the US to supplant Russia as the main supplier of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Western Europe. The US elites’ sanctions against Russia are like the Looney Tunes cartoon character Wylie Coyote, whose schemes always always blow up in his face. Like Wylie Coyote, Europe and the US are suffering from the consequences of their own actions; they are experiencing fuel, energy and food shortages that will worsen as long as this war continues. The Europeans are upset because Biden’s policies are wrecking havoc on them, they are suffering and their suffering will continue as long as the war in Ukraine goes on.
I was the 1st upvote.