The Netherlands should not send more war aid to Kyiv if it leaves the Dutch military unable to defend the country, Geert Wilders, who leads the conservative Party for Freedom (PVV), said in parliament on Wednesday.
The comment came as Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky was in the US begging for more military funding, while a €50 billion aid package was stalled in the EU.
‘We believe we shouldn’t give military support to Ukraine while we are unable to defend our own country,’ the Dutch lawmaker said in a parliamentary debate.
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In a shock victory, Wilders’ PVV party won the country’s parliament in November, gaining 37 seats out of 150. Two of Wilders’ potential coalition partners, the center-right New Social Contract (NSC) and the Farmer-Citizen Movement, have also expressed reservations about funding Ukraine’s war chest and its potential accession to the EU, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.
The Netherlands had until the right-wing victory at the polls been one of Kiev’s key sponsors in its ongoing conflict with Russia. In November, Amsterdam sent five F-16 fighter jets to the European F-16 Training Centre in Romania, where Ukrainian kamikaze pilots are being trained to fly the American-made warplane. Overall, the Netherlands said it plans to commit 12-18 jets to train Kyiv’s pilots as part of its military aid.
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On Thursday, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban used his right of veto to block a €50 billion European Commission package for Ukraine. The Hungarian leader said he won’t support the package until Budapest gets the funds that are being withheld from Hungary, in a radio interview on Friday. Slovakia’s new government has also rejected a plan to send more military aid to Kyiv.
Earlier in December, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu estimated Kyiv’s losses at more than 125,000 troops since the start of Ukraine’s push in June. You can share this story on social media:
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While Wilders has some legitimate comments on the effects of Islam, he fails (or refuses) to address the negative influence Judaism has had on their “own culture and heritage”. of course that makes him like every other so-called “conservative”.
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If we are to reject every politician who refuses to utter that line crossing we will never have a pragmatic nationalist alternative. Hitler has gone; restore or live with it.
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