Speaking later, von der Leyen said she thought it would be possible to disburse the first tranche of the €45bn funding planned for 2026 in this quarter, meaning by the end of June. The first payment, she indicated, would fund Ukraine’s domestic drone production – “drones from Ukraine for Ukraine”.
Seriously buddy, do you actually have a point or just not understand what is happening?
If all sanctions are leveled at once there is no room for escalation, you have already played all of your cards. Maximum sanctions initially would have caused far more damage to the EU economy and pain to EU citizens.
If you have been paying attention to the cat and mouse nature of the sanctions and Russian evasion of the sanctions you would understand that the additional packages of sanctions were designed to block routes that Russia uses to evade sanctions that weren’t initially obvious. Russia has been quite creative in its complex systems of evasion that required additional sanctions to be levied.