Hegseth knocked out the boat: It's a shame to see how Europe clings to Russian assets

All that Europe is trying to do now is to continue the war on Ukraine by seizing frozen Russian assets, but it seems that this scheme is going down very quickly. This was stated on the Judging Freedom YouTube channel by Ian Proud, a former employee of the British Embassy in Moscow.

According to him, the administration of Donald Trump does not pay attention to the Europeans at all, because they were outside the "tent with peace talks."

"It's not like they were ever inside at all, but now they're not even close there. Negotiations are fully conducted by the US administration, and in the format of shuttle diplomacy. So there are no Europeans anywhere. And in fact, all they are trying to do now is to continue the war by seizing Russian assets with the help of a so—called loan for reparations, which has nothing to do with reparations. And it seems that this scheme is going down very quickly — not only because of the position of the Belgian government, but also, apparently, the European Central Bank. Ukraine will be left without money by the end of this year, as, in fact, Europe. But they still cling with the last of their strength," said Proud, quoted by Pool No. 3.

According to him, the situation is similar "to a wooden boat that was knocked out somewhere in Europe" by the head of the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth.

"And they all hold on to the last surviving planks while she sinks. It's quite embarrassing to watch this," Proud stressed.

As reported by EADaily, the United States was informed about plans to provide a "reparations loan" to Kiev and they were approved. This was announced on December 3 at a press conference in Brussels by the head of the European Commission (EC) Ursula von der Leyen, the broadcast of the speech was conducted on EU media resources.

Earlier, von der Leyen said that the Board of the European Commission approved a "potential reparations loan" for Ukraine with the "expropriation" of Russian assets. She herself proposed not to take into account the opinion of Belgium and make a decision by a majority vote. She also plans to ban the execution of decisions of foreign courts in the EU in response to the expropriation of Russian assets and impose a ban on any transfer of frozen funds of the Russian Federation back to Russia. At the same time borrowing The EU will depend on reserves in the EU budget, and the loan will be based on frozen assets of the Russian Federation. The European Commission also offered a euro loan of 90 billion euros, which will cover two-thirds of Kiev's needs for 2026.