2025-10-21 | Silicon Wafers 037 | Trump Stop Europe’s €140bn Lifeline to Ukraine?
Europe thinks it’s found a legal-financial hack to turn Russia’s frozen billions into a €140 billion, interest-free “reparations loan” for Ukraine. And just as leaders line up to back it, reports say the Trump White House is balking — raising “market stability” fears and casting doubt on G7 unity. What’s the plan, what’s the pushback, and can Washington block Brussels? And of course, the big question, I why Trump would do this, when the plan would have a significant impact on Ukraine’s resilience, potentially turning the tide of the war.
The plan, plain and simple. Here’s the elevator pitch. The EU doesn’t confiscate Russia’s immobilized central-bank assets. Instead, it uses the cash stuck at Euroclear in Belgium (as Russian securities matured) to buy zero-coupon Commission bonds, and on that basis extend a €140 billion, 0% loan to Ukraine — repayable only when Russia pays reparations. It’s ingenious and gets around many of the concerns that timid lawyer types had about simply handing the money over to Ukraine.
A senior EU official framed the core legal line this way: “What we are proposing is not confiscation.” (The Guardian, Oct 20, 2025). Belgium still wants rock-solid guarantees that it won’t stand alone if lawsuits hit Euroclear. (The Guardian)
TACO: The EU are not paying enough to help Ukraine.
The EU: We have a plan to fund Ukraine.
TACO: You can’t do that.
Where is the sanctions from hell bill?
In the never to be seen tray.
40 years + of pro-russia activism, 20 years of friends of putler being the key investors in the family business (confirmed by not one but two Krasnov sprogs), 40 years + friendship with Ukraine’s most evil adversaries outside ruZZia : convicted criminals Roger Stone and Paul Manafort, 5-10,000 Ukrainians murdered during his first presidency, many thousands of Ukrainians needlessly killed by his 2024 aid block, a disgusting ambush/assault on Zel in the Oval Office, a hideous putler grovel fest in Alaska, his Witless lieutenant preaching putler propaganda to Zel and now this astonishing intervention.
Can anyone who is not in a loony bin still claim that Krasnov does not hate Ukraine and is not under the control of a child-murdering nazi?