by Thomas Brooke
Ukraine is a country that is “corrupt at all levels of society” and its immediate accession to the European Union would not be good for the bloc, the former President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker has claimed.
In a wide-ranging interview with the German newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine, Juncker expressed his anger at European politicians who he accused of making “false promises to the people in Ukraine who are up to their necks in suffering,” and insisted the country was in need of “massive internal reform” before it could be considered as a viable prospect to join the European Union.
“We have had bad experiences with some so-called new members, for example when it comes to the rule of law. This cannot be repeated again,” he added.
The Luxembourger insisted that there may be a time when Ukraine’s EU membership could be considered and praised Kyiv’s defense of European values, but warned those in a position of power against suggesting that “this can be achieved overnight at the push of a button.”
Speaking about Moldova and Ukraine, both of whom are hoping to join the bloc, Juncker said that “if progress is made in these countries, it must be possible for them to take part in parts of European integration.”
The Eurocrat called for future EU enlargement to be linked with the eradication of the unanimity principle, insisting that majority voting is the only way forward to ensure the bloc can continue to function.
“We need internal reforms. It cannot remain the case that, in principle, we decide unanimously on foreign policy issues. This must happen with a qualified majority,” he told the newspaper.
Plans to switch to qualified majority voting on foreign policy and tax issues are a contentious issue within the bloc and strongly opposed by a number of so-called “smaller” member states, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe, who believe that such a move would impinge on national sovereignty and allow “larger” member states like France and Germany to further their domination of the bloc.
Asked about the rise of nationalism across the continent, as witnessed by the electoral victories of conservative parties in Italy, Finland, Sweden, Greece and Estonia in the past year, the former Commission president called for liberals to resist “joining forces with these post-fascists.”
Paradoxically, at the same time, he also warned that calling conservatives like Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni a “pariah, even those she is trying to move into the European mainstream, is not profitable and strengthens the extremes.”
This is the way a majority of Americans see this, there is not a single person in Ukraine that cares that Americans in some cases have to work 10 hours a day, barely seeing their families just to make ends meet. Stop the funding!
Feeling Diminished – Volodymyr Zelenskyy asks if He Can Come To Israel – The Last Refuge (theconservativetreehouse.com)
The American taxpayer wants it 113+ billion back from ukraine. It was a complete waste of money.
Putin has been doing to Ukraine what Hamas just did to Israel for the past 596 days.
Boo hoo hoo no more Ukraine washing machine they lost they were always going to lose. Maybe if Zelensky needs money he can sell one of his mansions
Stupid people are the weak spot in our nation’s armor.
Yes thinking that Ukraine could win was stupid, all it did was kill many young men.
Ukraine is going to survive, Hamas is going to be systematically exterminated, and your cult leader is going to prison.
Sorry that card is still denied. There never seems to be enough blood guts and gore for your death cult democrats and your partners the neocon RINOs
Tell it to Putin and Hamas.
You need to take your meds, I dont want Russia or Hamas to win I want to feel like in this day and age we can solve or issues with diplomacy. Why is it you and your uni-party rush to WW3?
Putin and Hamas win unless the people they have violently attacked forcefully resist them.
John Stuart Mill:
I simply do not have choose to support war. Psychopaths that send others to bleed the leaders of Hamas in Qatar driving their luxury cars, the leaders in Israel also will not be leading their men into battle, little cowards.
Both empowered by Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden.
No cult leader except for Obama. Is he going to jail? He should, along with his pet monkey, Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden, the corrupt, treasonous pedophile.
See Greg is going off to war lest it be said he did nothing evil men would prevail!
Will he choose hamas or Putin?
Hard choice both situations created by our foreign policies.
Hamas Was Created By Mossad And CIA To Counteract Yasser Arafat – Ron Paul Explains.
10/13/23 – US says North Korea delivered 1,000 containers of equipment and munitions to Russia for Ukraine war –
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Does anyone really believe the Hamas attack on Israel has no relationship to Putin’s efforts to destroy Ukraine?
Correct a weak America with a cockwobble President leaves this vacuum on the planet.
Israel lost zero territory it can take care of what it wants to do, billions every year for their defense has been provided. BTW battery operated toy tanks are stupid, you might want to drop a note.
Wont see NK arms and supplies in Venezuela or sold on the dark web.
Are civilians all that is left in Ukraine? I guess we will soon find out.
Having fun war monger?
I expect you to openly turn on Israel too, the moment your cult leader blows his dog whistle.
Lookie, lookie, Comrade Greggie is here to once again display his idiocy. Wonder if he will ever admit that Obama was a big funder of the Islamists. I doubt it.
So, Comrade Greggie, did you approve of Obama’s kissing Islamist ass?
Trump strokes Salman bin Abdulaziz’s magic ball…
What did Jared Kushner do for $2 B in Saudi capital from the man who had Jamal Khashoggi murdered and dismembered?
What did Hunter Biden do to rake in the millions of $$ that he, and his dad (Hunter, the Bag Man) got from China, Russia, Ukraine and other nations? Perhaps you should be worried about that instead? But you’re not.
As to Khashoggi, WTF do you care about one man from Saudi who, BTW, was a member of the Muslin Brotherhood who has slaughtered more than you can count? I am sick of Khashoggi being referred to as an “American” journalist. He was not. He was a Jew hater who was accepted by the left wing media.
Continue to prove was a dumbass you are.
Hunter Biden has never represented the United States government in any capacity, which you can’t say about Jared Kushner.
Your former House speaker was removed by a statutory rapist; the guy nominated to replace him covered for a known sexual predator; your cult leader was the good buddy of a convicted billionaire pedophile, and is a rapist himself. It’s no wonder you need to slander Biden.
No matter how many times your claims are shown to be simple falsehoods, you, like all Leftists, continue to believe the falsehoods because it is all you have. The American left, like the Marxism it follows, has nothing to offer the citizens of this nation but anger and turmoil.
Because you have no experience with, or connections to, D.C. you must be clueless as to the reputation Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. has had for over 40 years there. His pandering with Du Pont and MBNA in Delaware was well knowing four decades ago. But he dropped his facade when he left the office of VP and we now know what a traitor to this nation he really is.
But for you to admit what you actually do know would destroy everything you say here so you can’t afford to do that.
Joe Biden is trash, as is the rest of his extended family. Live with it.
10/15/23 – The Conspiracy to End America review: Trump and the fascist threat –
Where do you find such tripe?
Nov 20, 2021That is when BHR became involved. Records in Hong Kong show that the $1.14 billion BHR, through subsidiaries, paid to buy out Lundin came entirely from Chinese state-backed companies. China gets Cobalt which is needed for Lithium ion batteries, Biden admin pushes electric cars hmmmmmm.
Oh, he has to be searching all day, and night, to find that stuff and then dump it into his “favorites” tab that reads “Bullshit on Trump.”
Of course, as an authority he uses Stuart Stevens, a Romney campaign hack/supporter and a strong member of the Anti-Trump Pedo Boys, the Lincoln Project.
But hey, don’t mention the truth about Joe Biden, grifter; sexual harasser; who dated his second wife as she cheated on her husband; who has been known for over 50 years for his outlandish lies and had to drop out of his campaign due to his plagiarism; who built a real estate portfolio that is, if anything, questionable (DuPont/MBNA); who made his son his bag man (knowing his son was not only violating drug laws but the Mann Act as well); who has cozied up with Iran (reason? $$?).
If anyone wants to know the real Joe Biden, just watch the Clarence Thomas hearings. Biden=racist with a capital R.
Joe Biden is, and always has been, scum.
In history books. In every dictator’s rise to power.
As previously observed, there always comes a time when the billionaires require an oppressive authoritarian ruler to protect them from the outrage of those they’ve exploited.
Where do you find such tripe?
Name them.
Or are you going to put on your cowardly widdle wabbit costume and run away?
How long will it take you to figure out that I don’t respond to your demands?
The article itself cited Hitler’s rise to power—how his wealthy donors imagined they could control the bastard if they let him rise to power. You can find that in almost any history book. You can find it in televised documentaries, or online.
What’s the article have to do with the request for what “history books” you have read that is the material for the tripe you reference?
How long will it take you to figure out that I know when you are lying and that you constantly let your mouth write a check your ass can’t cash?
You’re a troll.
Oh, we’ve all figured out long ago that you never try to back up your lies with citations.
Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden wealthy donors have certainly been able to control him. Iran, Russia, Ukraine, the CCP all control idiot Biden.
Democrats and ANTIFA are the fascist threat.
Kushner negotiated historic peace agreements. Hunter ran whores, smoked crack and peddled Pop’s influence for millions of dollars cash.
Uh huh. What were the terms of this “historic peace agreement,” and who actually “agreed” to them?
Geeze you have no search?
Israel and UAE
Seems with Biden financing Hamas the Arabs have pulled out.
Israel was the only party that okayed Kushner’s plan. That’s not an “historic peace agreement.”
Yeah, it is. In fact, Trump was nominated twice for a Nobel Peace Prize.
The parties involved agreed to them because of the threat to the region Iran posed, thanks to Obama’s infusion of cash and accommodation of Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Of course, Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden destroyed that progress, along with anything else good that was going on.
I can remeber Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden going to Saudi Arabia, climbing under the Prince’s robes and kissing his balls to try and get him to increase oil production. They told him to go f**k himself, embarrassing the entire nation.
Look at idiot Biden, bringing all our enemies together in brotherhood. What a guy!
Sorry about the 9 helicopters, the anti-aircraft missile system, and the ammo dump, Vlad. Maybe you shouldn’t have parked all that stuff in Ukraine.
Good thing Ukraine has won they wont be needing any more tax payer dollars from the US yeah!
biden wants another 90 billion. Not sure why, Ukraine no longer has a fighting army
Because he takes a cut.
Then why are Putin’s new Avdiivka and Kupiansk offensives failing? He’s thrown in armor and his reserves, but still gets nowhere. On Russian media, Putin is now referring to the offensive as “active defense”.
10/16/23 – Putin warns of ‘completely different war’ if West chooses conflict with Russia – Russian president assesses risks and implications of potential war with West, emphasizing need for peace –
Yeah, it would be “completely different,” alright.
All the stupid son-of-a-bitch has to do to stop this is withdraw his forces from the nation he invaded and stop targeting Ukrainian cities and infrastructure. NOBODY invaded Russia. Nobody wants to. He’s crazy if he thinks China has his back. China would simply sit back and watch.
No shit sherlock. If NATO engages then all bets are off and our sons and daughters will be called up, drafted and die for Nazi’s scumbags.
But they did attempt to bring Ukraine into NATO which is their border. They were warned repeatedly to honor their promise not to bring them into NATO and your bloodthirsty shithead President and his NeoCon handlers just salivated at the thought of engaging Russia instead of attempting to live by their agreement.
That would be Ukraine’s choice. They preferred aligning with western democracy to subjugation by a murderous Russian despot. Who wouldn’t?
Brilliant! Yes, their choice and now they reap the results. Just as we would look out for our national interests so did they against the Nazi’s
Nobody aspired to invade Russia. Russia invaded Ukraine. The fact is that Putin made a bone-headed move and put himself at personal risk. I’m surprised no one has killed him yet.
He made the exact move that was laid out to you bloodthirsty idiots…you make a move to their border there will be hell to pay. No one is gonna kill Putin. He is loved in his country. I’m surprised no one has killed the king Nazi Zelensky…it’s coming as more and more of his countrymen get sick of seeing their sons dying for the Nazi cause.
Bahahahaha…sure thing skippy. Ukraine has lost 14% of their country to Russia and they have failed to consolidate any wins. They are getting their asses kicked from one end to the other and the kicker is that Russia is still in SMO mode. If this was an actual war with all troops called up and deployed…oh boy. They would be done.
Sorry sad Nazi
If this were an actual all out war, we would nuke the mother f*cker.
And then we would be nuked as well. You are one brilliant SOB
Yep. That’s what would happen. Mutual suicide. Everybody needs to be clear on that point.
So you think the Nazi’s are worth nuclear holocaust. Interesting.
I think the “Nazi” meme is b.s. Everybody’s got their own damn “Nazis” to deal with. We’ve got that type, Ukraine’s got that type, Russia’s got that type. Putin uses the label more aggressively to manipulate his population because of Russia’s WW2 experience—but they had Stalin, who might as well have been a Nazi himself. They currently have a former KGB officer who throws you in prison for criticizing his war and poisons his political opponents.
Ahhhh…poor widdle Nazi lover is sad the actual Nazi’s are being called what they are.
Israel and Ukraine have much in common. It’s the same cause that we’re backing in both cases.
Iran is a dictatorship. It supports the destruction of both Israel and Ukraine. Sometimes you’ve got to chose a side.
The Nazis above are Americans, demonstrating in Orlando Florida. Like I said, everybody’s got their Nazis. The Nazis in Ukraine are fighting in an army commanded by a Jewish president.
Most of those guys probably died in in Mariupol, defending their homeland from Putin’s invaders.
ROFL…so that’s your story. They’ve wiped out all the Nazi’s and now the only ones left are good upstanding non-Nazi Ukrainians?
My point is that the Azov Brigade were Ukrainian patriots who volunteered to protect their sovereign nation from foreign invaders. Most died doing so. For that, they have my respect.
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You’re high if you think Azov is the only Nazi’s in that country. Read the rest of what I posted. They are only the beginning. You libs screamed about it 10 years ago and now it’s “what Nazi’s?”
What a joke.
Of course you respect self avowed Nazis. Doesn’t surprise me one bit.
They died to protect their country from foreign invaders. You’re you’re propagandizing for the invader? I honestly don’t get it.
You’re propagandizing for Nazi’s….period. It was Ukraines choice (and the choice of the American NeoCons) to invite NATO at the doorstep of Russia knowing full well what that would mean.
The country is a cesspool of Nazi’s. I have zero sympathy for them.
Meanwhile they keep begging for money, and you Nazi lovers keep sending our tax dollars to them.
For what? To prop up Nazi’s.
You and you Nazi supporters are sickening.