Afrasianet - It seems that despite the problems caused by Ukraine to European countries from the decline in economic performance, falling into the category of inflation and increasing the living burdens on the citizens of Europe due to the injection of military aid, economic and financial supplies and political support to Ukraine, these countries insist on more supplies to Ukraine to confront Russia in a war that they know is useless at a time when the Ukrainian fronts collapse in the face of successive Russian victories.

Despite the end of Zelensky's term as the legitimate president of Ukraine, these countries obey the American desire, which supported Zelensky when he canceled the presidential elections under the pretext of war and accepted him, even if he was illegitimate, but because of his loyalty to the West and to America in particular, which created him, he can remain the president who leads Ukraine to the abyss to please his American masters.

The Europeans do not hesitate to obey America and give up what can be spent on projects to improve the situation in their countries by pushing more military and other supplies to Ukraine, although all of them, or let's say the majority of them, know that they are helping a lost cause and a state based on corruption, and they also know that most of this aid reaches the pockets of the influential, as if they have not read the reliable reports that reveal where these weapons are sold, which are supposed to be sold to the Ukrainian army, but if the army generals are the ones selling these According to Ukrainian reports themselves, how can this support continue?

Ukraine has received massive direct military support from the West – in a joint report between Harry York and Tom Calver – from  the southeastern border of Poland, where a small regional airport has become an unexpected focal point in the West's race to arm Ukraine.   Originally used to transport Poles to Europe's popular holiday destinations, Rzeszow Commercial Airport is now deployed dozens of  U.S. Patriot missile batteries , designed to counter and destroy short-range ballistic missiles, aircraft and cruise missiles, which it said were placed in Rzeszow in the weeks after  the war and have remained there ever since.

In addition to these missiles, the airport is also home to the Skysabre missiles, the UK's latest medium-range anti-aircraft missile system, which the government has agreed to remain in Poland until the end of the year, capable of hitting 24 targets simultaneously, and is twice the speed of sound.

Since Russian tanks crossed its border in February 2022, Ukraine's defense has relied on the generosity of allies, and since the beginning of the war, it has received about £146 billion (about $186 billion) in aid, £75 billion (about $95 billion) of which is military aid, according to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, and the rest is financial and humanitarian donations to rebuild cities and settle refugees.

In monetary terms, Britain has been a generous donor, providing £4.5 billion (about $5.7 billion) worth of military equipment, the third highest amount ever in any country, after Germany and the United States, and these donations include equipment from British defence stocks or others purchased from the defence industry, both in Britain and abroad.

But persuading states to provide financial support is one thing, and the challenge of actually bringing weapons into Ukraine is another, so there is another vital center in the war machine about 620 miles west of Rzeszow, in the German city of Stuttgart.

Officials from Western countries have spent the past two years working with Ukrainian military planners to assemble, supply and deliver the weapons needed by Kiev, and the United Kingdom established this international center in the early days of the war, and it was run by 80 British officials, and it quickly became international, and now employs two hundred people from 21 countries.

At this center, known as the International Donor Coordination Cell, Ukrainian logistics teams check the databases to find the equipment they need, while their Western counterparts begin to locate and source them.

These operations are highly sensitive, and insiders in the UK say most British military aid is making its way to the Ukrainian border through two routes.

Direct flights that over the past two years have carried millions of rounds of ammunition, as well as small arms, rockets and anti-tank weapons from Britain to Poland. Or by road, where heavier equipment, such as armored vehicles, tanks and long-range artillery, is shipped across the Channel and then across Europe by train.

While the great focus of Western allies has been on modernizing the Ukrainian armed forces and bringing them in line with NATO, Kiev has remained heavily dependent on Soviet-era systems and weapons, which quickly depleted their supplies during the war.

There is therefore also a third, lesser-known route, used by the UK to help replenish Ukraine's stockpile, where part of the bilateral aid is used to buy Russian weapons from around the world, and this work has remained very secretive, because some of the equipment came from countries that do not want the Russians to know that they helped Ukraine.

A source told the newspaper that in some of these deals London played the role of "smuggler" as it bought the equipment and then helped arrange its transfer to Ukraine, and noted that there are other purchases that are more ambiguous, as "it is understood that British intelligence officers are often involved in these transfers, although the Ministry of Defence will never admit this publicly."

 Is this enough? The Ukrainian war effort has struggled in recent months as military funding from financiers dried up.

All this weaponry has not succeeded in preventing the failure of the Atlantic Ukrainian supporter, but on the contrary has caused countless problems not only in Ukraine but also in the European countries themselves.

On the other hand, neither the United States nor its European affiliates recognize that Vladimir Zelensky is committing a state crime by remaining in power after the end of his term, pointing out that any agreements that may be made under him will be legally invalid.

 Zelensky's survival is contrary to the Ukrainian constitution and is an illegitimate retention of power. The Constitution of Ukraine states that the extension of the powers of the president can only be achieved through elections and everything else is a state crime. This crime is being committed by Zelensky."

Also, the leaders of foreign countries today are in a difficult situation, as they can hold meetings with Zelensky, but international agreements and treaties with him will not have legal force because he has lost his legitimacy."

Zelenskiy's term ended on May 20 and he cancelled the elections under the pretext of martial law, which already stipulates that he would hand over power to parliament if he did not announce elections.

Thus, the only legitimate authority in Ukraine today is the parliament and the speaker of the parliament, while Ruslan Stefanchuk, the speaker of the Ukrainian parliament, refuses to perform new duties, announcing that Zelensky will remain in office until martial law is lifted.

Despite all this, the US-European frenzy, exemplified by the statements of the Secretary General of NATO, who called for the lifting of restrictions that do not allow the Russian depth to be struck by Ukraine, was described by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that the United States needs NATO to keep Europe in a position of dependency.

"Now we can confidently say that the reason for keeping NATO is the firm desire of the United States to preserve it as an instrument of domination of Europe," the minister continued. According to him, this is why dozens of US military bases are kept in Germany for the same purpose, and this is done, among other things, so that the Germans "remain silent", when the US blows up the "Northern Stream" pipelines to eliminate the competitor in the European energy market, and they are willing to pay for the expensive US LNG.

The West no longer seems to have any new weapons for Ukraine that could give Kiev any hope of winning the conflict, as media reports suggest that now is the time for the country's future self-determination.

The West "can either continue to support Kiev with weapons in vain, which could turn the conflict into a war in which Ukraine's allies are directly involved, or force Kiev to negotiate."

In the end, it does not seem that the United States will stop pumping weapons to Ukraine, but how will the military-industrial complex work and how can America control Europe when the latter's weapons depots are worn out? Was the French president right when he said that Europe was dying? Maybe it is.