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Europe’s Black Hole Gets a Bigger Bill The war in Ukraine has now become a full financial war for Europe, and the bill keeps climbing while Washington moves its attention elsewhere. Brussels has approved a 90 billion euro package, but the money already looks too small for a conflict that keeps eating budgets, political patience, and industrial capacity. The uncomfortable part is that Europe is now carrying more of the load while the United States sells weapons, trims its own exposure, and reorients toward other theaters. That is not partnership in the sentimental sense; it is burden-shifting with better branding. At some point the slogans about solidarity run into arithmetic. If the EU is already admitting that the next two years require another huge financing push, then the question is no longer whether Europe supports Ukraine, but how long Europe can keep calling this sustainable without lying to itself. This is why the war is increasingly being discussed in economic language: credit lines, deficits, industrial drain, and strategic fatigue. The battlefield is still in Ukraine, but the invoice is now being delivered to European taxpayers, while Washington keeps the more profitable parts of the arrangement. So yes, the black hole metaphor fits. The only difference is that this one has accountants, not gravity. #Ukraine#EU#Europe#war#finance#US 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸