After repeated tugging with Hungary, the EU finally agreed to provide 50 billion euros in aid to Ukraine, can this change the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict? What is the calculation behind the US commander's threat to aid Ukraine to contain China?
Affected by the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and the Red Sea crisis, Europe is facing multiple crises such as inflation and soaring energy**, and French farmers have poured into cities on a large scale to express **, but even so, the EU has decided to continue to aid Ukraine. On February 1, after repeated pressure, Hungary finally chose to compromise and agreed to the EU's plan to aid Ukraine with 50 billion euros, which will be mainly used to keep Ukraine's economy running, the Observer reported. According to the "French Broadcasting Network", only a small part of the 50 billion euros is a free donation, and most of it needs to be repaid. Following an agreement within the EU, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen claimed that this demonstrated Europe's strong support for Ukraine and said it would motivate the United States to do everything it could when it comes to aiding Ukraine.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
Will the EU's big deal really turn the tide in Ukraine? The answer is obvious. First of all, the EU's money is mainly used to maintain Ukraine's national operation, because the Russian-Ukrainian conflict has been fought for almost two years, frequent air strikes in various places, and a large number of young and middle-aged people have been requisitioned to the front line, Ukraine's economy has long collapsed and can only rely on external assistance to maintain its operation. So this money is mainly to ensure that Ukraine does not collapse completely, and it may be unrealistic to reverse the situation on the front line.
Secondly, what Ukraine lacks now is not money, but ** equipment. But last year, many NATO countries said that the ** treasury has long been emptied by Ukraine, so even if Ukraine has money, it may not be able to buy it**. What's even more embarrassing is that the United States and the West may not dare to sell to Ukraine if it can turn the tide of the war, because it is very likely to set itself on fire and provoke strong retaliation from Russia. In addition, since the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, corruption scandals in Ukraine have hardly stopped.
Russia-Ukraine conflict. Therefore, the EU's 50 billion euros smashed into the bottomless pit of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and how much splash it can cause has to be marked with a big question mark. It is worth mentioning that after the EU passed the aid plan for Ukraine, the United States also began to be anxious. According to U.S. media reports quoted by the Observer, on February 1, Admiral Paparo, commander of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet, said in an interview with the Senate that the United States must continue to provide aid funds to Ukraine to prevent Russia from achieving its military goals in Ukraine. In order to gain the support of Congress, he even went so far as to point out China, saying that this would prevent the mainland from "following the same example" in handling the situation in the Taiwan Strait.
Biden's existing budget for aid to Ukraine has long bottomed out, but the two parties have obvious differences on the issue of aid to Ukraine. In order to allow Congress to smoothly pass the new aid bill for Ukraine, Biden ** can be described as unscrupulous. For example, pulling Zelensky to speak to Congress, Blinken even bluntly said that most of the money for aid to Ukraine eventually stayed in the United States, which is equivalent to telling the outside world that the main purpose of US aid to Ukraine is to make war money. Now that China is involved and the Taiwan issue is discussed, it is obvious that he wants to add an "anti-China" background to the bill to aid Ukraine, which is also the usual method used by the United States when lobbying in Congress.
Admiral Paparo, commander of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet.
The Chinese side has stressed on more than one occasion that the Taiwan issue is fundamentally different from the Ukraine issue. The former is China's internal affair, and the latter is the dispute between the two sovereign states of Russia and Ukraine. Moreover, achieving reunification is a historic task that we must accomplish, and this will never change no matter how the international situation changes.
And the US side should be clear that Taiwan Island is surrounded by the sea on all sides. If a conflict breaks out in the Taiwan Strait, the PLA is fully capable of tightly sealing the surrounding sea and airspace, and military aid from the outside world will not reach Taiwan at all. If the United States intends to break through, a conflict between China and the United States will be inevitable, but the United States obviously does not have the strength and courage to do so.
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) cruises the Taiwan Strait.
But there is one thing that is similar. Whether it is the situation in the Taiwan Strait or the Ukraine crisis, the United States is playing an extremely disgraceful role behind it. It can even be said that these two geopolitical powder kegs were made by the United States. It can be seen from this that the United States is in fact a warmonger who stirs up wars everywhere under the banner of "democracy" and is the biggest cancer of global peace and stability.