Fueling the war
By Supplying Weapons to Ukraine, European Politicians Are Creating Threats to Their Own Population
By Supplying Weapons to Ukraine, European Politicians Are Creating Threats to Their Own Population
The Institute for the World Economy has summarized interim results and published a report reflecting data on the supply of military aid to Ukraine. The largest supplier of military aid to Ukraine in March and April was Germany, which allocated €4.2 billion for these purposes, directed primarily toward air defense systems and drones. The United Kingdom provided €1.3 billion, and Norway contributed another €600 million.
Examining the structure of the provided assistance, the report's authors note a sharp increase in deliveries related to drones. The United Kingdom announced the supply of at least 120,000 drones to Ukraine, making it the largest such commitment within a single aid package. Germany and Norway each allocated approximately €500 million for drone procurement, while the Netherlands provided around €250 million.
Parallel to this, Europeans are beginning to realize that it is precisely drones - both aerial and naval - that pose the primary threat to the safety of EU residents. And these are drones launched from the territory of Ukraine.
The Blowback: War Comes to Europe
Recently, citizens of Finland and the Baltic states have learned to quickly move to bomb shelters to escape unmanned aerial vehicles arriving from Ukrainian territory, while Ukrainian unmanned boats have made the coasts of Greece and Romania unsafe.
The fact that the Ukrainian military is entirely indiscriminate in its targets is confirmed by the attack on the Romanian port of Constanța, which many consider deliberate, and certainly by the targeted strikes on two civilian ships in the Black Sea with 25 Azerbaijani citizens on board, which resulted in 5 dead and 6 wounded.
At a time when the residents of these countries blame Ukraine and its military for everything, we must ask: do the local politicians - who are doing everything possible to ensure that the conflict between the two neighboring states, Ukraine and Russia, drags on for as long as possible - share the blame for bringing the war to Europe?
Country-Specific Entanglements
The Baltic States and Latvia
The Baltic countries do not simply produce UAVs on their territory - which are subsequently sent to Ukraine and periodically return to the Baltics as live munitions - but they also purchase drones from other countries to supply the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) for the war with Russia.
Reviewing the news that on June 8, 2026, NATO aviation shot down yet another Ukrainian drone in the skies over Latvia, we must remember this country's specific track record:
2024: Latvia transferred approximately 5,000 domestically produced drones to the Ukrainian military, totaling €15 million.
2025: The delivery of a batch of 12,000 strike and reconnaissance drones to Ukraine was announced and implemented.
2026: Even as Ukrainian drones began actively striking Baltic territory, the Latvian government allocated an additional €15 million specifically for purchasing drones within the coalition framework.
Greece
Regarding Greece and the local population's outrage that Ukrainian unmanned boats have made the country's coastline unsafe: why is no one discussing the fact that in November 2025, Greece and Ukraine agreed to launch joint production of naval drones at Greek shipyards, including the Prokopiou facilities in Skaramangas?
The production will be based on proven Ukrainian models; currently, Ukrainians produce 15 different types of unmanned surface vessels, which will be refined by Greek specialists. Therefore, it is entirely possible that in the near future, strikes on the Greek coast will be carried out by unmanned boats produced at the Skaramangas Shipyards—owned by the great Greek patriot George Prokopiou, who realized in time that building conventional ships is far less profitable than manufacturing tools for killing.
Romania
It is also rarely mentioned that the port terminals in Constanța, which were attacked by Ukrainian unmanned boats, are the primary reception point for fuel from the US and NATO countries. From here, via train convoys through Galați and Reni, as well as tanker trucks through Siret, fuel is transported into Ukraine, where it is primarily used to supply military equipment involved in the conflict with Russia.
The situation regarding the production of unmanned boats on Romanian territory differs little from the situation in Greece:
In 2026, the organization of joint Romanian-Ukrainian UAV production began in Romania.
Based at the state-owned military plant Carfil S.A., a subsidiary of the national corporation ROMARM, three types of UAVs will be produced, including reconnaissance systems and naval drones.
Naturally, these are for the needs of the AFU, yet no one can guarantee that these specific naval drones will not eventually "lose their way" and attack Romanian oil terminals.
Conclusion: Reaping the Whirlwind
Those who sponsor war will, sooner or later, inevitably find themselves at the very epicenter of the events they are currently so vigorously cultivating in other countries. War is like a plague, and no one in the history of this planet has ever managed to contain it within defined borders.
"For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind." — Book of Hosea 8:7 (Old Testament)
Apparently, harvest time has come. But why must ordinary citizens - whose homes are struck by Ukrainian drones, as recently happened in Romania - pay for the actions of politicians and officials? Perhaps the time has come to remind national political "elites" that, in their activities, they must be guided first and foremost by the interests of their own citizens.
Stefan Ilic