are us-eu relations materially splintering on foreign policy?
every western econ article i see literally just plays hot potato to dodge the question of how the hell this all gets paid for. talking about everyone in the eu taking out loans for ukraine?? while ukraine pays off 300 years of loans to the us?? the ideas just sound nonsensical.
plus, ukraine wasn’t exactly a viable eu candidate before the war, even if they somehow restore everything to how it was. and like… they act like the war is going to be over in the next couple months?? i know lying is the most likely answer but it seems like they are gonna be balls deep in any case, and if they did even try the membership stunt:
that universal veto seems like the perfect upcoming opportunity for dissatisfied eu members to play hardball and avoid the usual multi-tiered membership system. like, there’s no way greeks will agree to do austerity again over ukraine, is there? esp w how pissed they’ve been. and how do they deal with countries already on the list? especially serbia, who would only vote to admit ukraine if hell froze over. and how are the replacing russian gas plans going?
either the eu is in way worse trouble than the media is letting on or i don’t understand how eu politics work. pls inform if anyone has good links or analyses.
I mean, it’s a good thing they are doing this, though, a debilitated Europe means a weak ally for the US which means an accelerating decline of the US Empire, of course there are going to be innocent proletarian suffering from this in Europe but it will improve the lives of proletarians in exploited countries.