The indispensable Poland stops its arms sales to Ukraine, while in the United States Republicans believe that American aid is too costly… After more than a year and a half of fighting Russia, the conflict in Ukraine is at a strategic turning point? Could some allies abandon them?
Nineteen months have passed since fighting began on Ukrainian soil. Within nineteen months, the war had become a trench war, with Ukrainian soldiers holding the Russian enemy at bay with the help of tanks and other weapons from the international community. But can the loyal allies of the Ukrainian people ensure such equipment supplies for much longer?
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The question comes after Poland, a NATO member, decided to stop all further logistical and financial support to Ukraine. There is of course a dispute over grain resources behind this announcement, but this emerging rift in European understanding could have significant international consequences.
If Warsaw turns off the tap, it is to secure its place on the international military stage: “We are focusing primarily on the modernization and rapid arming of the Polish army so that it becomes one of the most powerful land armies.” Europe, and in very a short time,” explained Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. It is also a way for them to get out of a situation that their president considers dangerous. Andrzej Duda would actually have compared Ukraine to a man drowning and risked dragging into the ground the one trying to save him.
Other countries are also surprised by this conflict, which continues to spread and ultimately turns into a real financial pit. This is the case in the United States, which is experiencing a fiscal crisis. While the White House wants to include $24 billion in military and humanitarian aid for Ukraine in the budget, voices are being raised in the Republican camp in the House of Representatives.
American preference
“They favor Ukraine at the expense of the Americans,” accused their Republican leader Kevin McCarthy and instead demanded funds for the fight against illegal immigration. A handful of Trumpist elected officials, with whom the House president had to make a series of compromises to gain access to the seat, are calling for an immediate end to aid to Kyiv.
The amount ultimately allocated to its ally could be significantly reduced, increasing from 24 to 6 billion dollars… Aware of the risk of fatigue on the part of the great American ally, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky went to Congress on Thursday, September 21. Try They, persuading the United States to help them reach “the finish line” against Russia.
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Does he need to be more convincing so that his allies don’t abandon him one by one? Still, these emerging divisions could benefit Russia, as General Jean-Paul Perruche, former European Union chief of staff, told us.
“An attitude that also carries the risk of an “oil spill” with countries like Orban’s Hungary,” he analyzed.
A step into the European Union? Not so sure…
At the political level, unbroken support for Ukraine is also dwindling; the issue of the country’s accelerated accession to the European Union is beginning to give some member states, such as Austria, pause. “We need a level playing field, because the European community must be serious about the accession framework it sets for itself,” Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer told the Kronen Zeitung, thus closing the door to an “accelerated procedure for Ukraine “.
Behind this reluctance lies the fear of the weight of a country of 44 million inhabitants, which would actually have considerable power within the Union and with which it would also be necessary to share the European resources of the CAP (common agricultural policy). ..