I almost didn't hold back when I saw a picture just now, Zelensky learned from the first person in North America to ask for food, and started a journey of global cooking.
The difference is that the "gold medal lecturer" asks for food in North America, while Zelensky asks for food all over the world.
Jokes are jokes, but many friends don't think it's funny, because Zelensky is "asking for help for the survival of the country".
It is true that the driver has been running a lot of places to ask for money recently, because Ukraine is really running out of money.
On December 10, he went to South America to attend the inauguration ceremony of Argentina's new "Chainsaw Brother", at which he held talks with Uruguay, Paraguay and other South American countries, hoping to get some assistance and cooperation from South America.
But many countries in South America are poor themselves, the Argentine currency has collapsed one after another, and Brother Chainsaw is going to abolish his currency and replace it with the dollar.
Obviously, Zelensky will cost less than a penny to go to South America, the main thing is to increase visibility around the world and show up everywhere so that the world will not forget about Ukraine.
On December 12, he left Argentina and went to the United States to ask for money, because he had been kicked out of a confidential meeting by the United States.
On the 6th, the two parties in the United States were going to hold a confidential meeting, and Zelensky ** attended, but at the last moment, Biden told the driver, "Don't participate in it yet".
So Zelensky announced to the public that he himself canceled his participation in the confidential meeting.
But anyone with a discerning eye knows how much the driver wants to attend a confidential meeting in the United States, and declaring that he has canceled his participation is just a better way to save face, and it will be less embarrassing for the United States to get rid of him.
The real situation is that this confidential meeting is mainly the topic of the bipartisan ** "2024 Ukraine Aid", but due to the big differences between the two parties in the United States, the meeting is full of words, and these things are not very suitable for Zelensky, an outsider, to be present.
Just like the two brothers in their own family want to discuss lending money to an "outsider", then this outsider is present, and it is inconvenient for the brothers to tell a lot of truths.
So Biden told Ozawa, don't come yet.
But for the driver, the United States is the big one who "asks for money", so after the 6th was kicked out of the confidential meeting, the driver got Biden's consent, and the 12th was allowed to go to the United States to meet.
But the driver's meeting with Biden was bad.
According to British and American reports, the driver's visit to the United States was the smallest one, and he almost "returned empty-handed".
Since the Republican Party bites the bullet and does not give aid to Ukraine, Biden's aid bill for 2024 is difficult to pass.
The Republican Party believes that Ukraine is like a bottomless pit, and it can't be filled, and Zelensky has no choice but to go to Congress in person and talk to the Republican Party himself.
This is a trip that is destined to hit a gray nose, people are putting on an ugly face at you, and you are still "asking for food" with a dead face, the driver told the opponents of the Republican Party
Now that the Ukrainian army is valiantly fighting the Russian invaders, he hopes to be helped by Western allies, and now is not the time to back down. ”
At the same time, Zelensky handed over a "letter of freedom" signed by more than 130 parliamentarians from various European countries, who urged the United States to continue to support Ukraine and not back down.
After the speech and the delivery of the letter, Congress applauded, but when it came time to pay for it, almost all Republican lawmakers were silent.
Republican leader "McConnell" praised the driver's speech as "inspiring and determined", but quickly changed the conversation and said, "But the Ukrainian thing is here now, and it is not very popular." ”
The implication is that you said it well, don't talk about it next time.
Follow the hawkish Speaker Mike. Johnson smiled and told the driver to his face, we will not support Biden's bill to give Ukraine $61.4 billion, you go elsewhere and think of a way.
After Congress got nothing, the driver went to meet with Biden again, and wanted to beg Biden to think of a way again, if there is no money and no aid, how can Ukraine fight Russia?
Biden is also really unable to hang on face, after all, the Russian-Ukrainian war was instigated by Biden after he came to power, and now he has sold Ukraine so nakedly, who is willing to fight the "** war" for the United States in the future?
So Biden passed an emergency order to bypass Congress and approved "$200 million" in aid to Ukraine, but this $200 million is a drop in the bucket for Ukraine, which continues to fight.
It's better than nothing, and as soon as the driver stepped out of the White House, Blinken said in an interview, "It's not a long-term solution."
Blinken said, "We can't always use this method to aid Ukraine, we still need to go through Congress, and if the Republican Party keeps stuck with the aid funds for Ukraine, then the 200 million may be the last batch." ”
Zelensky, who was sent by 200 million, flew back to Europe and went to find the five Nordic countries with the best welfare in the world to see if he could get some money from the Nordic countries.
The five Nordic countries warmly received the driver, and the "mouth" said that one was more beautiful than the other:
"This is a critical moment for the security of Ukraine and Europe, and we must not reduce our support for Ukraine, on the contrary, the most difficult moment has begun, and we will support Ukraine more next year than this year," Finland** said. ”
The Danish Prime Minister said, "Russia is now eager to use our internal ** to win the war of aggression, and we want to use united actions to tell Putin that you are underestimating the free world, and we will help Ukraine for a long time without the slightest retreat." ”
The Swedish Prime Minister said: "You can't resist the aggressor with your mouth alone, you can't repel the fascists without **, we have to do everything possible to meet the needs of Ukraine, their heroes are fighting the invaders every day, they are fighting for freedom, but also for the whole of Europe, and Ukraine's freedom is inseparable from us".
After the beautiful words, it's time to pay for it, Denmark to aid 1 billion dollars, Norway to aid 1.8 billion.
The other three countries did not provide assistance, because the last aid was given, Finland provided 1.2 billion in August and Sweden 800 million in September.
The driver did not run in vain on both sides of the Atlantic, and it was about 3 billion US dollars, and he flew non-stop from Northern Europe to Belgium on the 15th to attend the EU General Assembly.
Asking the EU for money is a big deal, the EU and the United States are the two big heads of aid to Ukraine, and other countries are making small fuss.
The United States will aid Ukraine with $61.4 billion in 2024 and will be stuck.
And the EU's 2024 plan to aid Ukraine with $54.5 billion is also stuck.
The driver is going to come to the EU headquarters to fight for the $54.5 billion.
In the United States, it is the Republican Party that is stuck in the aid of Ukraine, while in the European Union it is Hungary that is stuck in the aid of Ukraine.
Since the EU adopts a "consensus decision" rather than a "majority decision", if one member state disagrees, the resolution will not pass.
Therefore, the aid funds for Ukraine must be nodded by the 27 member states of the European Union, but Hungary is the thorn in it, and Hungary **Orban has a tough veto of 2024 aid to Ukraine.
And in the entire EU venue, Orban avoided Zelensky, and avoided it if he could, for fear of trouble.
But as soon as Zelensky waited for the EU meeting to end, he immediately got up and went to the venue to block Orban and block Orban in a corner.
The driver hopes to persuade Orban to release 54.5 billion aid funds for Ukraine.
Although there was no voice, judging from the body movements at the scene, the two sides argued fiercely, Orban is a "pro-Russian faction" in the EU, he only opposed Ukraine's accession to the EU and NATO from the beginning, and he was even more disgusted that Ukraine angered Russia because of its insistence on joining NATO.
Orban has said more and more clearly that "it is impossible for Ukraine to win." ”
He also said that it is a disaster for the EU to return so much money to Ukraine in 2024, and the more money the EU gives to Ukraine, the more the war will not stop.
The war will be a protracted war, a bottomless pit, and then the whole of Europe will go to hell together.
The driver's persuasion of Orban must have failed, but the United States has the Republican Party and the European Union has Orban, is this really a coincidence?
Or is it that one sings red face and the other sings black face to play a double reed to show Zelensky?
Although only Orban jumped out to oppose the two major aids, the other members probably hope that Orban will oppose it to the end.
The $54.5 billion EU aid was forced to be suspended, and we can only wait until next spring to find a way to convince the EU, and then turn 54.5 billion into 25 billion to see if it can be passed.
However, in the European Union, although the aid of real money ** was vetoed, the European Union, like the United States, gave the driver a face.
The EU adopted Ukraine's EU accession negotiations
Failed to ask for money, the EU held the "Ukraine's accession to the EU" initiative, which was adopted with 26 votes in favor and 1 abstention.
The abstention was still black-faced "Hungary", and the topic was discussed for four hours at the conference without results, and finally German Chancellor Olaf Scholz walked up to Orban and asked Orban to go out for a "cup of coffee".
Soon after, Scholz returned to the meeting alone, and then Scholz announced that everyone could start voting, saying: "The abstention of an absentee leader does not prevent the adoption of a decision." ”
Following the EU Parliament's vote in Orban's "coffee on the sidelines", the "Negotiations on Ukraine's Accession to the EU" were unanimously adopted, and Hungary abstained.
It's a typical off-market deal, and it is not known what Scholz promised Orban to make him drink coffee off the floor for so long.
Maybe Scholz told Orban that we coaxed that kid, we won't let Ukraine really join the EU, but we have to give Ukraine a face, and we can't make him feel that he is being abandoned, because we also need him to help us defend against Russia.
It is not unreasonable to say this, after all, the "negotiations on Ukraine's accession to the EU" is not the same as "Ukraine's accession to the EU".
The EU has now agreed to start formal discussions on "Ukraine's accession to the EU", and the time between the discussion and Ukraine's actual accession is a short decade.
In other words, Ukraine will not really join the EU for another ten years.
Ukraine's accession to the EU depends on Ukraine's economic and military strength, and if Ukraine remains weak in these two capabilities, it will never be able to join the EU.
Although it is impossible for Ukraine to join the European Union, this face-saving project must be done for Ukraine, because it is important for Ukraine's military and civilian morale.
In interviews on the streets of Kyiv, Ukrainians are generally excited and happy about "opening negotiations on joining the European Union", and the news of "joining the European Union" is a morale boost for Ukraine in the war.
On the whole, the driver's half-month global begging trip was a failure, and the general war weariness and quality of life in the West have declined, making the United States and the European Union tired of long-term aid to Ukraine.
But I'm optimistic about the driver, and he's constantly asking for military spending around the world, hoping that the driver will succeed in getting the money and the US and EU aid budgets will pass next year.
Because everyone must know that once the West cuts off financial aid to Ukraine, Ukraine will be defeated, and the Russian-Ukrainian war will end with Russia's victory.
And this is not the result we want to see, firstly, Russia cannot win, and secondly, the Russian-Ukrainian war cannot end so quickly.
We need Ukraine to hold on, and Ukraine wants to drag Russia the Western Front, so that Russia will need its eastern neighbor very much, and only then can Russia cede its actual interests in negotiations with China.
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