EU rearmament, arms supplies to Kiev risk confrontation with Russia — Finnish politician

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Armando Mema added that the EU had already provided 400 billion euros in military aid to Ukraine and continued its rearmament drive, "with 800-billion-euro investments in building an European Army"

STOCKHOLM, November 13. /TASS/. If the European Union continues its rearmament drive and military supplies to Ukraine, it risks entering into direct confrontation with Russia, Armando Mema, a member of the Finnish national-conservative Freedom Alliance party, said.

"Prime minister of Estonia [Kristen] Michal says that Europe does not represent a security threat to Russia. The EU has been active in financing a proxy war against Russia with clear intent of wanting a strategic defeat," he wrote on X.

He added that the EU had already provided 400 billion euros in military aid to Ukraine and continued its rearmament drive, "with 800-billion-euro investments in building an European Army."

"We should take into account Russia’s rightful concern about security or we will soon end up in a direct confrontation if we keep ignoring Russia's demands for security," Mema concluded.

Moscow has repeatedly rejected allegations that Russia plans to attack NATO countries. Russian President Vladimir Putin described such claims by Western politicians as an attempt to intimidate their own populations and justify increasing military spending. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that NATO was pursuing a policy of "frenzied militarization," using the so-called Russian threat as an excuse to raise member states’ defense spending to 5% of GDP.

In the spring of 2025, the EU took steps toward large-scale militarization. In particular, an emergency summit in Brussels in March approved the ReArm EU plan worth 800 billion euros. Later, the Council of the European Union approved the establishment of a defense funding mechanism dubbed Security Action for Europe (SAFE) as part of the bloc’s 2030 military development program. A NATO summit in the Hague in 2025 decided to raise military spending by European countries to 5% of GDP by 2034.

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