The European Union is captured by warmongering, thieving fascists who will do anything to satiate their Russophobic fantasies.

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Plan A was to rob Russia’s sovereign wealth and hand it over to the corrupt Ukrainian NeoNazi regime to keep waging the proxy war against Russia. Ursula von der Leyen and a cabal of Russophobic Euro elites had pushed the heist plan for months. Despite the deceptive legalistic rhetoric about a “reparations loan,” the scheme was too much to bear for several EU states, who saw through it as a reckless, grand “theft.”

Even the European Central Bank and the IMF warned against the scheme, as it would destabilize the credibility and long-term financial viability of the European Union.

This week, European Commission President Von der Leyen and other unelected eurocrats like European Council President Antonio Costa tried – and failed – to get the 27 nations to sign on to their plan to loot €200 billion of Russian assets. The Russian wealth has been illegally impounded in European banks since the NATO-fueled proxy war in Ukraine erupted in 2022. Backing Von der Leyen in her mad obsession are German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, and other Russophobic so-called leaders.

After marathon wrangling at the European Council summit on Thursday, the EU robber barons had to accept a setback. Belgium, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Malta, and Slovakia were not buying the heist plan. Belgium, which holds the majority of frozen Russian assets, feared that it would be held liable by Russia for the theft. Moscow has already begun international arbitration for compensation over its frozen assets. Potentially, Moscow could seize equivalent amounts of European funds held in Russia in retaliation if its assets are not returned.

The fanciful looting scheme proposed lending Ukraine up to €135 billion and using Russia’s appropriated funds as collateral. The loan would be paid back with Russian “reparations” after the war. There is no way that Moscow will pay reparations for a conflict that it considers as having not started, but rather is a proxy war instigated by NATO. It will be Russia that seeks reparations, in particular from the loss of interest on its impounded foreign assets in European banks, as well as for the death and destruction caused to its people.

Not able to get away with their scheme for robbing Russia, the Euro elites have come up with Plan B. That plan commits the European Union to raising “joint debt” from international markets to lend Ukraine €90 billion ($105 bn). It is another utterly mad scheme of criminal irresponsibility by the unaccountable Euro elites. The rampantly corrupt Kiev regime led by the unelected con artist Vladimir Zelensky has already squandered hundreds of billions of euros and dollars in a four-year unwinnable war. Ukraine is bankrupt. This latest additional infusion of €90 billion will be siphoned off by the Kiev mafia and will help the regime prolong the futile proxy war with tens of thousands more deaths.

In Plan B, Russia’s frozen funds remain intact, although they are still illegally withheld from Russia. Instead, the debt enabling the loan to the Kiev regime is being saddled on the European citizens, who will be burdened for generations to come.

Three nations – Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic – have wisely refused to go along with the new “reparations loan”. They say their citizens will not be made to pay for money wasted on Ukrainian corruption and prolonging a lost, bloody war.

Either way, the financial looting by the European elites is breathtaking in its audacity. The out-and-out robbery to fuel a war against nuclear-powered Russia goes hand in hand with the funding of graft by a NeoNazi regime whose top figures have accumulated billions-worth of foreign properties, as well as the collapse of any democratic or legal accountability to European citizens, and the shutdown of free speech and information across the EU. The EU has lost any semblance of democracy and has turned into an autocratic regime run by elites.

Incredibly, European Union citizens are prevented from accessing articles like this present editorial and others on Strategic Culture Foundation, or this one on false claims about Russian child abductions, and other informative articles on Russian news media, because of internet bans imposed by the EU bureaucracy. Alfred de Zayas and others have noted that this regression in the public right to know marks the death of democracy in the EU.

However, the theft of public finances to fuel war and corruption is perhaps the most glaring illustration that the EU elite is out of control. Von der Leyen has already been involved in corruption over her autocratic and unaccountable purchasing of billions worth of COVID-19 vaccines from Big Pharma. She was involved in similar secret dealings in public funds when she was the German military minister.

She is only emblematic of an entire upper strata of EU elites and politicians who are imposing policies without any legal or democratic accountability.

There is indeed a “re-Nazification of Europe,” as Russia’s top diplomat Sergey Lavrov commented recently. The Euro elites are in bed with NeoNazis in Kiev (led by a Jewish conman). These elites, like Von der Leyen and Germany’s Merz, have Nazi ancestors. Their ilk in other European states were ardent collaborators with the Third Reich. Today in the Baltic States, monuments are unveiled glorifying SS collaborators and mass murderers. European NATO chiefs, like Dutch former prime minister Mark Rutte, are urging civilians to be ready to die in a war against Russia.

A key policy of the Third Reich was to weaponize the financial looting of conquered European states by systematically and “legally” robbing central banks.

Poland’s Donald Tusk, whose countrymen were slaughtered by Ukrainian Nazis during World War II, is today more interested in backing NeoNazis in Ukraine than in historical justice.

Tusk this week justified the theft of European public money by saying, “If it is not with money today, it will be with blood tomorrow.”

The European Union is captured by warmongering, thieving fascists who will do anything to satiate their Russophobic fantasies.

Such people destroyed Europe before. They are doing it again.