That's The Plan...

... at least this is how it looks like for now.  

European Union leaders are discussing whether they can afford to keep financing the Ukrainian military if US President-elect Donald Trump decides to pull Washington’s support for Kiev, Bloomberg reported on Friday. At a meeting in Budapest on Thursday, EU officials “held discussions on whether the bloc will be ready to foot the bill for the war,” the American news outlet reported, paraphrasing anonymous sources. According to one of these sources, the “big concern is that Trump will seek to shift the financial burden on Europe.” Trump repeatedly promised on the campaign trail to end the conflict within “24 hours,” but offered few specifics as to how he would achieve this. However, he said on numerous occasions that Washington’s European allies would have to “pay up” if they want to keep fighting, and reportedly plans on leaving the Europeans to pay for and enforce any post-conflict security arrangement.

For those people who still ride the high from the election win for MAGA, I'll pour some cold water on their expectations. Trump cannot stop anything in 404 no matter how he tries, or whatever hollow outward PR effects he may employ, what he wants is to freeze SMO and then put the burden of supporting 404 on Europe's shoulders. That's the plan. It is stupid, almost childish plan, but half of it may still work--that is making EU pay for 404. And here we have to understand one very important fact--it was EU which played a crucial role in unleashing the mayhem on Maidan in 2013 and then lied to Russian face during Minsk Accords. EU doesn't have capability and capacity to really aid 404--NATO has been largely demilitarized. No matter what EU does--it is over for Europe and with the exception of some critical technological and industrial competencies, Europe will be made (already in progress) poor but wealthy enough to buy crappy American weapons, which should "guarantee" Europe's "defense" against those hordes of Russians.