Tim Kirby
We should expect that the EU will do everything it can to keep people in Ukraine or perhaps bring millions more from abroad to Ukraine as the firewood for maintaining the status quo and warding off the inevitable fall of the West.
If one reads the Western Mainstream Media, then the war in Ukraine is depicted as some sort of stalemate or you might be led to believe that 2026 is even the year of resurgence for Kiev's forces. However, if you get your information from the Alternative Media or simply look at the facts on your own, it becomes clear that the war is going far from ideal for Zelensky's regime on all fronts: militarily, economically, and informationally. With no new 'wonder weapons' or wonder financing on the horizon and the Kremlin standing firmly intact it should come as no surprise that within the EU people with fancy titles are looking for new creative ways to keep the war going. The freshest potential means thought up to strike back at the Russians came from German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt who on July 18th, 2026, in an interview with Welt am Sonntag, expressed the opinion that the (forced) return of young Ukrainians (from the EU) to the war zone was justified. Mr. Donbrindt's exact words were:
"Obtaining asylum through the standard procedure is, of course, fundamentally possible, but evading military service is not a reason for granting asylum,"
If things were coming up roses for Zelensky's war machine, then no extra help would be needed from refugees within the EU, but as 'Russian propaganda' has been indicating, they are simply running out of manpower in the most direct physical sense. The German Interior Minister has made it very clear that all Ukrainian men who can die for Epstein Island shall do so until final victory is achieved or an escape for this situation is found. We cannot forget that the EU has let millions of questionable people immigrate as a form of asylum for far more dubious reasons than Ukrainians have. One could say that the millions of Syrians, many of whom were never from Syria, that entered the EU as refugees, should have stayed home and fought. Furthermore, in the West's opinion the Syrian Civil War is over and thus, shouldn't they all quietly go back ? This hypocrisy is one of convenience because all the other physically darker refugees in the EU aren't going to be used as cannon fodder against the Russians, thus they don't count. Ukrainians in the EU are doomed because of their urgent usefulness as a meat shield for the Collective West.
Interestingly, the EU commission has quickly put Dobrint's words into legal action according to Politico:
"The European Commission on Friday proposed extending temporary protection status for individuals fleeing the war in Ukraine until March 2028 - but excluding newly arrived men of fighting age.
Under the Commission's plan, the status would be extended until March 4, 2028 but not for those with"military obligations,"who aren't allowed to leave Ukraine. Ukraine bars men aged 25 to 60, who are of conscription age, and men aged 23 to 25, who are on the military reserve list, from leaving the country.
The limitation would not apply to men who received temporary protection before the new rules enter into force."
So the question here is whether there is some level of humaneness in the EU as to not drag the men already with asylum status 'back home' to their deaths or is the EU just so horrifically inefficient in terms of deportation and they could never mass deport anyone anyways ? Then again, perhaps videos of men being beaten and thrown into vans to be exported to their doom on the front something that Brussels believes is best to stay only the Russian side of the internet ? In the West there is an odd phenomenon where the native populations want mass deportations but don't like the way it looks, take the ICE raids that have stormed across America for example. These actions have been met with surprisingly mixed reviews even by people who supported the idea. It begs the question how can you deport millions of people in a nice, pleasant and media friendly way?
Considering the open hatred that EU politicians feel for their own native populations it is hard to imagine that humaneness could possibly play a role in their decision making process. It is ultimately bureaucratically easier to just block entry of a certain type of person rather than hunt down and deport them. This type of cowardly technocratic reasoning is one of the reasons the West is in tatters as we speak.
One thing we cannot ignore is the fact that the ultimate fates of the skin suits in Brussels depends on how the War in Ukraine ends. Each of them knows that if... or when... the war is lost someone is going to have to pay and something is going to have to change. Thus, the rubber stampers find themselves in the same position as the Ukrainian press gangs: either they send more men to the front to die or they'll share a similar fate when the EU project falls apart. Deep down, hiding under 7 layers of feelings of western inherent exceptionalism they know that if they can't keep this fire of war fueled, they're done for. Thus, we can see that the EU's position on the War in Ukraine is very typical of western-style democratic politicians - vote to kick the can down the road and hope things change taking zero responsibility and/or blame for the results. Completely bureaucratically cutting off Ukrainian men from fleeing is another kick to the can, something that buys time and keeps the war going. It is another move to keep the charade of global western dominance in play just a bit longer. It keeps the EU project afloat just at least until the next news cycle. "Maybe because some Wildberries orders didn't go through they will rise up against Putin ? Maybe because there was a fist fight at a half-empty gas station a new Lenin will emerge ? Maybe just maybe revolution in Russia is nigh!" Hope dies last in Brussels.
This reasoning is probably what has created the idea for 'War with Russia by 2030'. It is the ultimate kick-the-can-down-the-road style policy - make the war last as long as possible by setting a start date for a new bigger war, thus all sorts of corrupt spending can go on until that point, and when 2030 hits well those politicians who are in place will surely take the blame right ? Ultimately it will be 2030's EU bureaucrat's problems that their predecessors threw money into building a war machine that never actually got started. This is an extremely cynical way of looking at the world but if you have ever really dealt with technocracy it makes perfect sense.
But now, at present, the question is what will happen with the men who are now being trapped to die in Zelensky's open-air prison ? Will they all die out, defect, become partisan fighters or get captured ? What will Brussels do then ? When one adopts a 'Frankfurt School' way of looking at the world that demands the deconstruction of the West you cannot simply flip a switch back to a pre-WWI nationalist Europe where young men lined up to die in defense of the motherland. Europe is diverse, deindustrialized and postmodern, the skin suits may say that they are preparing for 2030 but they are incapable of this and have done ultimately nothing to this end. Subconsciously everyone knows this, but anyone who tries to change it won't get invited to dinner parties anymore. We should expect that the EU will do everything it can to keep people in Ukraine or perhaps bring millions more from abroad to Ukraine as the firewood for maintaining the status quo and warding off the inevitable fall of the West.