EU to demand reforms as condition for funding Ukraine's post-war reconstruction

[highplainsdem]

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[ColinC]

1. Not sure how practical it is to expect them to fight corruption, etc if

Everything is blown to smithereens and half their population is displaced or dead

[Igel]

4. These are EU delegates.

They will eat lunches that would cost $350/plate while discussing terms for emergency famine relief. With complaints that inferior quality food was provided.

I'd note that Zelenskyy had, in fact, made moves against some of Putin's BFF oligarchs in the year prior to the Spec Mil Op (which is re-fighting the Great Patriotic Spec Mil Op).

[ColinC]

5. Yeah I got the impression they took some major steps that direction

But your description definitely fits the insanity of the request.

[Turbineguy]

2. Why would they fund rebuilding?

I thought we were going to have Putin pay. He broke it.

[Igel]

6. Even if Russia funds it through seized assets,

many of those assets will have been seized by the EU.

Bureaucrats bureaucrat.

There was a M*A*S*H episode that summarized it neatly. A regular was asking for, I believe, new boots. The supply sargeant had them, argued. Why? Because he had them and that meant he had them, something in demand. That meant power. Now, if he *handed them over* he wouldn't have them, and meant he'd have *less* power. His power depended not on service, but the restriction of service. And in exchange for giving up power, he wanted to exchange that power for power. "What are you going to give me?" And he named things that the regular character wouldn't have at hand, but which could be held over his head.

The EU wants to use power to gain power.

They're supply sargeants or petty bureaucrats whining about $350/plate lunches.

They may do good things. I mean, it's possible. They *are* the rulers, those who build and enforce the system.

[msongs]

3. ummm russia should be paying for ukraine reconstruction no the EU nt

[pecosbob]

7. I remember those pallets of cash unloaded at the airport in Afghanistan

IIRC more than half of the money was effectively stolen. The EU is right on this one.