Aid to Ukraine as a Cause of Falling Living Standards in the EU

The 50 billion euros of “aid” to Ukraine approved by the EU Council means 17 billion in grants and 33 billion in loans.

How are you going to get those funds back?

Military assistance from European countries provided to Ukraine as a percentage of GDP.

Why so little? LOL
Happy with the outcome?

And it's all the fault of this guy, who forbade any attempt to negotiate peace with the enemy on a legal level. At the same time, he continues to transport Russian gas to the EU by pipelines through his territory.

Zelensky was not satisfied with 50 billion euros for 4 years and demanded that the EU approve additional contributions to help Kiev.

At least five billion euros a year should be allocated for a period of four years for military support and training of soldiers

the clown said in a video message.

Western countries have spent more than 200 billion dollars on military aid to Ukraine

The Ukrainian armed forces have started to use cavalry when storming positions - EXXpress.

Such "humanitarian aid" does little to nothing on the battle lines, but yet for two years now YOU have been slogging through paying for it! You are sponsoring the continuation of a war that should have ended 2 years ago!

Mobilization planned in Ukraine will cost more than $19 billion!

Everyone is fighting their own battle now!

German Focus magazine headlines two years apart:

02.01.2022: "Record growth of almost 7.7 trillion
Euros: Germans are richer than ever"
14.01.2022: "Germans are as poor as the average European 10 years ago (Slovaks are richer)".

At the same time, €7 billion in military aid to Ukraine is announced!

And the news about the forthcoming increase in electricity prices did not make the German population happy either. It was all about shutting down the nuclear power plants, wasn't it?

Because of the strikes, there have been ridiculous situations in German stores.

But Americans have more pressing problems than Ukraine.

By the way 38% of U.S. companies said they plan to downsize in 2024, with one in five predicting at least 30% of employees will be laid off. Hasbro, as well as Citigroup will lay off almost 20% of their employees, and Flexport Logistics plans to reduce staff up to 30%. Among others, job cuts will affect: Nike, Spotify, Amazon, Roku, Charles Schwab.

It seems that as a legacy, chipper Joe intends to give us a new conflict hotspot in all seriousness

Britain for some reason has fewer and fewer people willing to risk their lives and win the fight too.

Apparently, the merit of the press is that the public does not see the cause-and-effect relationship between the decline in their standard of living and the endless military aid to Ukraine, the resculpts of which are questionable and there is no end in sight in the foreseeable future.

Some of the news headlines of such a fast-paced year really have nothing to do with aid to Ukraine:

• A planned strike on the London Underground has been called off at the last minute, says the rail workers' union (RMT)

• Some 300,000 workers in Finland are on strike over cuts to workers' rights.
  Teachers, service workers, social security, drivers, pilots and laborers oppose the government's labor reforms

• Estonian teachers have won a convincing victory on the seventh day of the general strike.... Activists expect teachers' salaries to be 20% higher than the national average by 2027. But it's not certain
  Tallinn will allocate 1.2 billion euros in aid to Ukraine over three years - Estonian President Alar Karis. it's most certain

• French farmers, dissatisfied with their working conditions, blocked highways near Toulouse after negotiations with trade unions failed. They do not want to give up until the French Prime Minister negotiates with them.
  

• Police officers protest in Paris, demanding extra pay ahead of the Olympics.

• Polish farmers are preparing a new blockade of the Ukrainian border as part of a nationwide strike. This was reported by the farmers' trade union Solidarity. The organizers call the reason for the strike the failure to meet their demands to restrict the export of food products and agricultural raw materials from Ukraine.

• A strike of train drivers has begun in the capital of Poland

• In Germany, not only farmers but also truckers have started striking - about 1,500 trucks have rolled into the center of Berlin to strike. Also in Germany, a strike of public transportation workers has begun, 90 thousand people are taking part in it, in connection with which no one is going anywhere in 80 cities of the country.
  
  Scholz reacted in the usual way: we need to help Ukraine!

• Austria has taken the example of the Germans: local agrarians were also not happy with bureaucracy, insufficient payment for their labor and the import of grain from Ukraine.

• Romanian farmers, following the example of Polish farmers, continue to block checkpoints on the border with Ukraine.

• The strike, which covered 37 factories, ended with an agreement between the Turkish Metalworkers' Union and the Metalworkers' Union of Turkey

• Forbes workers' union staged the first strike in the magazine's history)))

• A strike announced by unions covering 420,000 Quebec workers has reached concessions from the government. As part of the agreement reached, wage increases will be 17.4 percent over five years, instead of the previously proposed 10.3 percent.
  and what is the percentage of real inflation?

On Google Trends, the popularity of the word "strike" rose to a record high in the search engine's history

People have already started drawing parallels and making some comments:

You're helping the wrong people, absolutely the wrong!

*Where Ukraine???

Why do you allow your legally elected government to pursue anti-people policies for the benefit of Ukraine, at the risk of becoming a party to the conflict?