A-Infos (en) Italy, UCADI #201 - PUTIN'S POISONED GIFT TO THE EU (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

In his statements on Ukraine, Putin, after initially rejecting the 
possibility of joining NATO and the EU, now seems to believe he has no 
objection to Ukraine's accession to the EU; indeed, he almost seems to 
hope it will happen. The reasons for such openness lie in the effects 
that Ukraine's accession to the EU would have, impoverishing it 
economically, forcing it to repay its budget and shoulder its public 
debt, thus increasing internal conflict and fueling the conflicting 
interests of its member states regarding debt distribution.
Ukraine is a failed state. The costs of its economic rescue are 
incalculable, to the point that it would jeopardize the interests of the 
less well-off classes in the states currently belonging to the Union, 
who would have to reduce their welfare systems to raise the resources 
needed to support Ukraine and forgo much of their funding.
Ukraine is a nonexistent state, its finances ruined, having been 
stripped of most of its productive resources and raw materials located 
in the territories occupied by Russia, having to bear the burden of 
thousands of disabled people even after a possible peace, and having 
been deprived of a large portion of its population, who, having fled the 
war, largely have no intention of returning, having created a new 
economic and social order.
In four years of refugees settling in their host countries, fueled by 
generous welfare benefits and higher benefits than those paid to 
natives, they have created a new life and a new living space. 
Furthermore, many of them, returning to their country of origin, would 
not know where to return, either because it is now Russian territory, or 
because they would have to start over to build a dignified existence.
A different fate awaits the Ukrainians who have taken refuge in Russia 
(approximately 4 million) and those who have never left their homes, who 
will be able and will have to rebuild the destroyed Donbass, who will 
have the opportunity to repopulate a territory they have not abandoned 
and which they consider their homeland.
Considering the possibility of Ukraine's immediate accession to the EU, 
the nature of the problems to be addressed becomes clear by examining 
each one individually:
Agriculture: a large portion of the economy of the remaining Ukrainian 
territory, deprived of some eastern oblasts, would be even more engaged 
than before in agricultural production, which would still have to take 
place in a war-torn, bombed, and polluted territory that could only 
produce agricultural products with characteristics that do not conform 
to European standards due to the fact that they originate from polluted 
territories. If these products were marketable and included in European 
markets and distribution channels, they would compete with the markets 
of EU countries, putting their agriculture in crisis. Consider, for 
example, what happened with the export of Ukrainian grain, which sparked 
protests from farmers, especially Polish, Romanian, and German ones, who 
were harmed by unfair competition due to lower production costs. 
Furthermore, under current EU regulations, Ukrainian agriculture, due to 
its crisis, would absorb a large portion of the EU's agricultural 
budget, to the detriment of farmers' incomes in other countries, 
especially those in France, the Netherlands, and Poland.
Industrial production: although what will remain of Ukraine after the 
war will be a country that will see its technological capabilities 
increased-because the war, with all its destruction, also brought about 
an increase in knowledge to support the war effort, which then also 
impacted civilian production skills-Ukraine is still a country with 
completely devastated production structures. It's true that there's talk 
of an extraordinary reconstruction funding plan, an issue we recently 
addressed when commenting on the results of the Rome Conference, but 
even then it was clear that the funds available, even from institutions 
and private individuals, are completely insufficient.
The institutional players, namely the EU, will therefore have to pay, 
taking resources from the EU budget and, above all, from the welfare 
systems of individual states. In return, Ukraine will provide the EU 
with an army of war-traumatized veterans, who will inevitably volunteer 
to serve as security forces to quell the likely protests of the European 
proletariat, victims of "solidarity" with Ukraine. In this way, 
Putin-who, it is worth remembering, is a right-wing conservative, 
Orthodox, and a lover of tradition and religion-in other words, a 
Russian Maga-will have achieved another of his goals: shifting the 
political axis of European countries to the right.

The Left's Blame

These are the consequences of a misreading of the Ukrainian war by 
left-wing forces, who failed to understand that the Russian-Ukrainian 
war was and is a clash between two oligarchic and liberticidal regimes, 
politically similar, with divergent interests, but with a common goal: a 
sick nationalism that, especially on the Ukrainian side, is steeped in 
racism, xenophobia, and supremacism. The Western mainstream has 
portrayed Ukraine as an attacked people, while it was actually a country 
in which a civil war had been underway since at least 2014. For 
geostrategic reasons and the protection of ethnic minorities, another 
country, Russia, intervened, without realizing that the issue was not 
defending a liberal democracy, respectful of minorities, multilingual, 
and respectful of religious and conscientious freedom, as well as 
political freedom: it was something entirely different.

Ukraine, in fact, is a country that has imposed a state church by law, 
oppressing other faiths, seizing their assets, attributed to the state 
church, and restricting freedom of worship. The main persecution 
concerns the Orthodox Church, canonically linked to the Moscow 
Patriarchate but now independent of it, but it has also affected other 
faiths.

Even before the proclamation of martial law, it outlawed opposition 
parties. With a special law, it banned the use of Russian and other 
indigenous languages, imposing Ukrainian by law. It is "de-Russifying" 
the country, demolishing statues of Russian poets and writers, or 
Ukrainians who wrote in Russian. It has repressed autonomies. This 
de-Russification process bordered on the ridiculous when the Ukrainian 
Autocephalous Orthodox Church, mandated by the government, erased saints 
of Russian origin from the calendar in compliance with the 2023 law "On 
the Condemnation and Prohibition of Propaganda of Russian Imperial 
Policy in Ukraine and on the Decolonization of Toponymy."
This process of reclaiming Ukrainian identity was strengthened by 
implementing the Ukrainian law "On the Principles of State Policy of the 
National Memory of the Ukrainian People," rewriting history and pursuing 
the goal of "decolonializing Ukrainian culture from Russian 
imperialism." Ukrainian leaders have evidently forgotten that the 
country is multiethnic, even if it is searching for its own identity, a 
goal that cannot be achieved through subtraction and/or censorship. This 
alone should be enough to make Ukraine's accession to the EU impossible, 
as it violates not only the principles of the rule of law, but also 
those on which the EU claims to be founded.
The left should understand this, but what is more serious is that they 
have betrayed their duty by going against the interests of the classes 
they were supposed to defend, undermining their standard of living, and 
causing the catastrophe of the European economy, which relied on the low 
cost of energy from Russia, thus undermining the wages and incomes of 
European workers. The most serious result is the mobilization of 
entrepreneurs and financiers committed to rebuilding their profits by 
launching a massive European rearmament policy.
This lack of understanding has led to a series of reckless decisions 
that have placed European countries at the service of Great Britain and 
the Baltics, even though Britain is no longer part of the EU and the 
Baltics' economic weight and population are negligible. This has put 
them in a position to direct the Union's foreign policy, entrusted to 
Kaja Kretina Kallas, ignorant of history and geography, who wants to 
declare war not only on Russia, but also on China.
The left-wing parties have even gone so far as to joyfully hail the 
sabotage of Nord Stream 2, desired by the United States, led by Biden, 
and carried out by the British, including with the help of Ukrainian 
laborers. Their mistake is failing to understand that the Ukrainian war 
serves the interests of the United States and the imperial aspirations 
of Great Britain, to eliminate from the market the foolish European 
vassals who competed with American manufacturing activities, which are 
increasingly limited due to the decentralization of production they 
themselves have desired.
But even leaving aside the inability to protect the classes and classes 
that the left-wing forces should represent, the mistake is that of not 
having understood that war is in any case unacceptable because it 
affects the lower classes, while offering the crafty and the rich the 
opportunity to avoid conflict. This error has influenced most of the 
decisions of the self-described reformist left, which has been blinded 
by the mainstream narrative regarding the protection of the freedom of 
the attacked country. This choice has also involved the President of the 
Italian Republic, who plays his role as a vassal alongside Prime 
Minister Valvassino(/a), and as such belongs to the Court of the 
self-styled Emperor Trump, respecting the hierarchical structure of the 
Carolingian Empire. All this even when the White House has changed, 
which seems to have altered the US administration's political line. 
Faced with his wavering policies, European leaders have arrogantly given 
birth to a ragtag bunch of willing volunteers, ending up looking like a 
bunch of imbeciles. Even in the face of this perseverance in error, many 
of the self-styled left-wing parties continue to support Ukraine, paving 
the way for their own decline and burial, but handing the people over to 
the right. Thus, Putin, who is winning the war in Ukraine on the ground, 
despite what the mainstream media and the paid journalists who work 
there may say, will win twice: on the battlefield, albeit with 
difficulty, and by achieving a rightward shift in the political axis of 
European countries, who have come to question the rule of law by 
welcoming Ukraine into the Union, just to assert their political choices 
(the presidential elections in Romania and Moldova are a prime example).

The death knell for the European Union has tolled.

Enrico Paganini & C. G.

https://www.ucadi.org/2025/11/01/il-regalo-avvelenato-di-putin-alla-u-e/
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