PREVIEW
Ukraine is no longer a story of values or sovereignty. It has become the centrepiece of Western financial exposure, where banks, hedge funds and other shadow investors fight to protect their positions while Europe pays the human and economic price. Beneath the rhetoric of democracy lies a hard reality of asset capture, elite self-preservation and geopolitical servitude – all wrapped in moral language designed to keep ordinary Europeans quiet.
1. WESTERN FINANCIAL EXPOSURE IN UKRAINE
Ukraine has become a huge arena of Western financial exposure. American shadow banking – hedge funds, private-equity firms and high-risk investors – have poured money into Ukrainian assets for years, dating back to the beginnings of America’s financialisation in the 1990s.
The primary political motivation now appears to be the defence of these financial positions, the containment of Russia for geopolitical reasons, and the private interests of a corrupt elite. It is certainly not concern for Ukraine’s or Europe’s welfare.
A recent precedent illustrates this clearly. When Argentina faltered, Bessent and others surreptitiously backstopped Argentinian government bonds with billions. Bessent injected roughly $20 billion of taxpayers’ money into Argentinian treasuries simply to restore the value of portfolio managers’ bond holdings. Ukraine is the latest version of this pattern.
Argentina. Canada. Greenland. Venezuela. All examples of attempts to bolster Western balance sheets with new assets used as collateral for further debt extension.
2. THE CORPORATE-FINANCIAL COMPLEX AND PROJECT UKRAINE
The corporate-financial complex tied into “Project Ukraine” knows that if the whole structure collapses, they will face enormous losses, political disgrace and possibly criminal scrutiny. Some may even fear for their lives. Worse still - some may even lose their money.
The stakes are existential. This explains the unusual fervour and the refusal to consider negotiation or strategic pause.
Anyone with a basic grasp of global finance can see the alignment. Western policy maps almost perfectly onto Western investor exposure.
3. EUROPE AS A FOLLOWER, NOT AN ACTOR
European leaders have become followers rather than actors. They take their line from Washington. Washington takes its line from the interests of its financial sector, the military-industrial-congressional complex and the shadow-banking world surrounding it.
Europe therefore marches dutifully behind, offering yet another multi-billion package and a 20th wave of sanctions. Not from national budgets – they are empty – but from the seizure of Russian assets, a move likely to be reimbursed by European taxpayers once court challenges succeed.
It is a fiscal illusion with very real consequences for ordinary people.
4. THE RHETORIC OF VALUES AND THE REALITY OF ASSET CAPTURE
All the familiar moral language is repeated. Democracy. Sovereignty. Freedom.
But the rhetoric rings increasingly hollow when weighed against actual strategic and tactical behaviour.
The United States has made no secret of its desire to acquire or control distressed foreign assets. Canada. Venezuela. Greenland. And now Ukraine. Asset capture dressed as moral duty.
5. EUROPE BEARS THE HUMAN AND ECONOMIC COST
Europe is paying the price.
Young Europeans are dying.
Refugee flows destabilise neighbouring states.
Germany is rearming and piling on unsustainable debt.
Industrial output falls under the weight of sanctions and energy prices.
Western taxpayers are liable for hundreds of billions that could have modernised their own societies.
Within Ukraine, corruption continues uninterrupted. Large portions - sometimes as much as a third - of Western aid are diverted or simply disappear. This is apparently an acceptable haircut ... acceptable to the donor governments but probably not acceptable to the taxpayers, who - if fed the truth - would not and increasingly don't want this.
Meanwhile, as the flagrant corruption is sniffed out, Ukrainian oligarchs race to Tel Aviv rather than defend their own supposed homeland.
6. NEO-COLONIALISM, NOT VALUES
France, Germany, the EU institutions and the UK have aligned themselves with this strategy.
One word captures it: neo-colonialism.
Not the old colonialism of boots and flags.
A financialised form where states become platforms for asset extraction and geopolitical leverage.
Measured against the EU’s founding values – Peace, Prosperity, Solidarity – the contradiction is grotesque.
What we see instead is:
– preservation of elite financial interests
– defence of hedge-fund exposure and sovereign-risk positions
– protection of the Western monetary system
– political alignment with Washington whatever the cost to Europe
– self-interest wrapped in moral language
Euch!
7. THE FINAL TRAGEDY
Ordinary Europeans are told this is about democracy and self-determination.
But the real drivers are prosaic:
money, alignment, protection of entrenched interests.
The tragedy is that Europe – once capable of independent strategic thought – has surrendered its autonomy to actors who do not represent European citizens and do not care about their future. They do not even care about the welfare of their own populations. They care only about themselves.
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