LUkraine is going through distressing times. The Russian army, with a military budget of 106 billion euros, which it wants to increase to 135 billion in 2025, is continuing its invasion at the cost of tens of thousands of deaths and the systematic destruction of the country’s vital infrastructure. Ukraine: its energy plants, its hospitals, its factories.
Despite the heroic resistance of the Ukrainians, it is gaining ground thanks to the half-measures and delays in aid provided by their allies, who are careful not to designate the only admissible outcome of this war: the withdrawal of Russia within its borders. .
Paralyzed by Vladimir Putin’s “nuclear blackmail”, Joe Biden and Western leaders untimely delivered weapons in limited quantity and scope, without providing Ukraine with the means of victory. Preoccupied above all by the desire not to contribute to an “escalation”, they let the Kremlin successively go through all the stages of military escalation, until the arrival in recent days of 10,000 North Korean soldiers, crowned by the use of chemical charges and a hypersonic ballistic missile.
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Paralyzed by Donald Trump’s ranting, are European governments preparing? half a voice to accept, with cowardly relief, that the new American administration negotiates a ceasefire agreement to the detriment of the Ukrainian will?
Against Georgia, Moldova or the Baltic countries
The betrayal of Ukraine would sign the death warrant of the European project: triumphant today, Putin would resume in two, five or seven years his wars of conquest against Ukraine, but also against Georgia, Moldova or the countries Baltics. The entire continent would slide towards the abyss. Our security, our freedoms and our values are directly threatened. We must therefore act, quickly.
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NATO is dependent on the goodwill of the White House. The European Union (EU) is coming up against the indecision and pusillanimity of certain heads of state and government, and the double game of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. This is why we call for the mobilization of all European citizens: if NATO does not quickly take its responsibilities to invite Ukraine to join the Atlantic Alliance, a coalition of European states must be put in place. voluntary – whether or not they are members of the EU (like the UK or Norway).
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