In a publication on the website of the Insubordinate, the several times presidential candidate questioned that at a time when a laborious peace process between Ukraine and Russia seems to take shape, “the EU is determined to prepare a war with Russia.”

However, he warned, that while this is happening, the United States threatens to invade a European territory and attacks the continent’s trade and its producers, alluding to Donald Trump’s intentions to seize Greenland (Denmark) and his tariff crusade, respectively.

For what Washington does they only dedicate words, for Russia a budget of 850 billion euros, he stressed when referring to the money announced by the EU for its rearmament, shooting up military spending to unprecedented levels.

According to Melenchon, these are taxpayers’ resources, which in the case of those that will correspond to France, represent in one year a budget and half of another in education and five times that allocated to ecology and research.

As an illustration, an M51 ballistic missile costs 120 million euros, with which we could buy an MRI machine for every university hospital in the country, he pointed out.

A US F-35 aircraft costs 152 million euros, the equivalent of two and a half years of public cancer research, he compared, adding that the ongoing warlike drift is a symptom of the accumulation crisis in the EU.

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