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Austria has taken in more than 90,000 displaced Ukrainians and provided over 124 million euros in humanitarian aid to Ukraine. Austria also signed a framework agreement worth 600 million euros for the construction of three hospitals in Ukraine.
Yes we are clearly supporting the war machine.
Austria has also provided military aid to Ukraine. It's not nearly as much as other European countries, but it's clearly direct involvement in the war effort
And of course, the stance of mainstream politicians in Austria is hostile to Russia. They describe it as a war of aggression where Russia invaded Ukraine completely unprovoked. If you want to see an actually neutral stance than look at Slovakia as an example.
Oh look it’s Rosenkranz the far right politician also in the SS Party who I support though because he think Russia good. Also obviously it’s NATO being rat fucks but according to the article all those things are officially not heading directly to Ukraine. I don’t want Austria to be supporting Ukraine militarily I kinda don’t mind giving people humanitarian help though. I know that can be used as a backdoor for more nefarious shit.
The first article 404d I should be working so I’m not gonna look for it rn
The third one says were helping people demine their fields. Idk could be doing a lot worse I guess
I’ll reiterate this war sucks call me a chauvinist or whatever it makes no fucking difference as I’m literally just some guy with 0 money and political influence. I just don’t like the party that was founded by former SS members and if I see them cosying up to Putin that’s sus to me. this war was fucking dumb and all it’s help the far right everywhere
I get what you're saying. What I'm saying is that Putin would've been happy to work with the left in Austria the way he is working with SMER in Slovakia for example. What Russia cares about is the attitude of the parties towards Russia. This is a rational policy for Russia to pursue. The real tragedy in all this is that Europeans allowed the neoliberal centre to drag themselves into a proxy war with Russia. Now we're seeing the fallout from all this idiocy hitting Europe.
I also see what you’re saying and I can see why the left didn’t really want to cosy up to Putin. After all he’d been funding the people who literally want to beat the shit out of them dox them for a while. These ties go back before 2014.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raiffeisenbank_(Russia)
This bank is notorious for funding right wing politicians in Austria they do big business in Russia so do a lot of other sketchy right wing fucks.
I agree that the Ukraine war didn’t need to escalate to the point that it did and the United States is as much to blame for the fucking shit show we are in now. Capitalism fucking sucks and normal people are currently getting squeezed and lots of them are running right like lemmings the whole thing pisses me off. Anyways I need to actually focus on this shit I should be doing right now and need to take a break from posting, I wish you all the best and I appreciate all News posts you do and I find them interesting.
I agree with all that. It's a shitty situation all around, and Europe put itself in a rather unenviable situation by allowing the US to drive its policy since the Cold War ended. Hopefully people will start waking up to that now. In my view, the smartest thing Europe could do at this point would be to improve relations with China and use it as leverage in dealing with Russia.