What? They are still afraid of the bald Russian midget. Come on guys.
Quote:Von der Leyen and Costa fail to cash in on Trump smacking Putin
De Wever, who has been Belgium’s prime minister only since February, derailed EU plans to raid frozen Russian assets and release a vital loan of €140 billion that would help fund Kyiv for the next two years.
His opposition to the plan — based on fears that Vladimir Putin would retaliate against Belgium, where the assets are held — means EU leaders will now have to come back to the question of how to help meet Ukraine’s cash shortfall in December, if they don’t call an emergency gathering sooner.
“It’s a mess,” one diplomat said, granted anonymity like others to speak freely. “This was not how it was meant to play out.”
French President Emmanuel Macron said the proposal for using the assets to create a loan to Kyiv was not being abandoned. “It hasn’t been buried, we were able to discuss technical details,” he told reporters. “We need to progress with method, because we can’t do anything that breaks international law.”
Von der Leyen tried to put a brave face on the outcome and argued that the EU would remain a staunch ally for Kyiv. “We are in for the long haul,” she explained. Ukraine, however, says it needs the money early next year.
Many of the EU’s leaders will meet again on Friday with Zelenskyy and the U.K.’s Keir Starmer as part of the coalition of the willing to support peace efforts. Zelenskyy will be hoping they have more success.
“After our sanctions, and Trump’s sanctions, the reparations loan should have made this a really good day,” one EU diplomat said. “But it’s an opportunity we’ve missed.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-leade...t-finance/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
