The budgets of European countries were affected by the Corona pandemic, and the war in Ukraine came in its wake to worsen the situation in terms of the standard of living, the high cost of living, and the rise in commodity and energy prices in particular, and a number of European governments announced a reduction in their budget, which indicates a decline in the prosperity that European countries enjoyed at an accelerated rate. And it seems that the greatest suffering comes from the energy resources that were affected by the ongoing war in Ukraine and the European countries cut off their relations with Russia, which led to the cessation of Russian energy supplies, and this came on orders from Washington, as prices rose by more than 25 percent, and the door is now open to Wide open for more hikes to come.
And the European countries failed to take an independent policy, and it became a game in the hands of the United States of America, and this was evident when the war took place in Ukraine, where all of Europe was quick to join the American position, and to be hostile to Russia, although this is not in the interest of its people, and Washington did not compensate the European countries With Russian energy resources as promised, and the shipments it sent exceeded four times the price of Russian energy, the US administration turned the war in Ukraine into a project that generates high profits, whether through large arms deals paid for by European governments, or through direct financial aid to the Ukrainian government. Washington imposes billions of dollars on European budgets.
This explains the US administration’s standing against any negotiations to end the war, and teaching the Ukrainian president the impossible conditions so that the negotiations will not be held, because the continuation of the war is an American strategy, whose goal is to drain Russia and weaken it without losing a single American soldier or even a single dollar, and the longer the war lasts, the more budgets are drained. The high cost of life and the high cost of living affect all parts of the European continent, which American presidents have long described as the old continent, which is now facing the end of its influence on the global level, and the end of its position that it assumed for many decades.
There is no doubt that the demonstrations and protests that are sweeping most parts of the European continent are, as a result, against the policy of dependence and tailing to the American policy, which results in the impoverishment of the continent and the deterioration of its economy, which was the first economy in the world, at a time when the American economy is growing at the expense of other economies in other countries. The world, especially the economies of European countries whose governments have become weightless and are losing their position day after day.
