Austrian conservatives oppose EU’s ‘scandalous’ planned expansion of Ukraine funding
Austrian People’s Party (FPÖ) politician Petra Steger. (Wikimedia Commons)
MAGYAR NEMZET | July 24, 2023
The European Union’s desire to increase budget contributions from member states to continue funding Ukraine’s drawn-out conflict with Russia is scandalous, the conservative Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) has claimed.
Prominent FPÖ politicians sharply criticized the Austrian government for supporting the pro-war efforts in Brussels. Petra Steger, the party’s spokesperson on European affairs, insisted the European Union should not be fueling the conflict by providing an endless supply of military and financial support to Ukraine, and should instead be promoting peace talks in the region.
Steger slammed the plans proposed by the EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell for the European Union to provide, in addition to existing measures, up to €5 billion per year for Ukraine’s defense needs and to guarantee a substantial contribution to the military training program of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
She said the plan represents a “bottomless pit,” and her party therefore reiterated its calls for the Austrian federal government to suspend its additional contributions to the European Union budget.
“The scandalous increase in the EU budget hasn’t even been implemented yet, and here they come with their next crazy demand. In the meantime, more than enough billions have been transferred to Ukraine, which has brought nothing but bloodshed and a boom for the U.S. arms industry,” Steger said.
“All this at a time when the European Union is constantly giving billions in gifts to third countries, openly supporting a warring party while the EU itself is degenerating into a debt union. Moreover, the European Central Bank is constantly overstepping its mandate. The hard-earned money of the Austrians is no longer in good hands in the institutions of the European Union,” she added.
Instead, Brussels should be hell-bent on promoting a ceasefire between Kyiv and Moscow to help bring peace back to the region.
“Until then, the EU’s behavior can only be described as a brazen Brussels rip-off that has turned into the ultimate disaster for the European financial budget,” she claimed.
More than €60 billion has flowed into Ukraine since the beginning of the war, and the European Union wants to approve even more funding through the European Peace Facility. This, however, comes at an additional cost for member states, and net contributors to the EU budget, like Austria, aren’t impressed.
“Our hard-earned prosperity over decades is incessantly sent to Ukraine by the EU,” Steger said, adding that the federal government supported Brussels in its plans and gave the European Commission its nod.
Her party colleague Axel Kassegger also criticized the European Union and the Austrian government for not being firmly opposed to the deployment of cluster bombs in Ukraine by the United States.
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The European Union isn’t as united as it pretends. Other members of the EU are also protesting more spending on what is turning out to be a lost cause. I realize some lost causes are worth fighting for but continuing to arm Ukraine in an insane war of attrition against a much superior Russia, isn’t one of them. The Ukraine war should be defunded so peace negotiations can start. Otherwise, Poland and Lithuania, both are prepared to jump into the fray, will ensure the war is expanded and turned into a dangerously regional war. London and Belgium planners think nothing of sacrificing millions of Slavs in this war to suit their objective of defeating the Bear and carving it up into 40 mini-states with different and opposing ethnicities ala Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. They are delusional and fatally so. Russia has in-depth war-fighting potential, economically, militarily, and socially. In a conventional war, Russia will have the upper hand against whomever the EU and the US throw at them. If in the end, it turns into a thermonuclear confrontation between Western Europe and North America (Canada and the United States), Russia will have the upper hand there too. Its 6000 nuclear weapons are attached to unstoppable hypersonic missiles, meaning they’re all going to reach their assigned targets. EU-US supersonic missiles can be shot down either with conventional anti-missile missiles or Russian beam weapons that are being used to shoot down Ukraine drones. It’s hard to make a case for survivability in a nuclear war. But government leaders would be remiss if they didn’t try to develop strategic defense of nuclear missiles. Ronald Reagan went in this direction with Lyndon LaRouche’s laser beam defense system, SDI. But the SDI was sabotaged by George Bush Sr and his allies, while Mr. LaRouche was railroaded into federal prison!
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