The US doesn't control the supply chains. Biden subsidizes EVs as well. US labor is too expensive and the resale value of EVs are very poor. If there is a country that can make EVs cheap enough, it is China. The EU and US stand no chance. Even with safety standards and 27% tariffs, Chinese cars are still cheaper, and the quality is good. US currency is artificially too high. US traded in their manufacturing for financialization. This is a case where Joe Biden can't beat the global market, with the rest of the world buying China. American EVs are a flop.
Listen… Ukraine is irrational when they violated the conditions for which they gained independence. When Ukraine became independent, it was agreed that it would remain neutral. Since it is not neutral and actively aligning with a political alliance that is the enemy of Russia, it voided that agreement. Another thing, Crimea gained independence before Ukraine, and was an independent republic. In 1997, after bringing the Crimean Republic by force under its control, Russia, and Ukraine agreed to partition the land as to continue to have Russian military presence in Crimea. Sorry, but you are wrong, and have no basis for your argument. Russia has no interest in conquering anything and does not want to fight NATO. The US is the principle instigator that wanted Russia to invade. This is why the US has no interest in any peace process or rejected any diplomacy. Ukrainians are not supposed to win, they are supposed to weaken Russia. Russia is reacting to NATO expansion. Had Ukraine maintained neutrality like it agreed when it gain independence, it would not be in predicament. Western rhetoric and propaganda is contradictory and inconsistent; it is full of lies. NATO is neither morally on a superior level nor even obeys treaties and rules. You are repeating Western propaganda, which is proven by a study of Steve Walt and John Mearsheimer that democratic government lies to their citizens far more than autocracies. The mainstream news media that are dubbed "reliable" are narrative control. Your government wants you to believe their lies. These are the facts. Now you can believe in the myth of a Russian imperialism when it is in fact the expansion of NATO that is the problem for balance of power and ignoring international agreements, that Putin in all his years as public figure suddenly decides in Feb. 22, for no apparent reason, decided to Ukraine to start a new Russian Empire or bring back the USSR, it is a propaganda that falls flat when facts are involved. You like to pick sides, and you like to think you are with the good guys, but I can assure you, NATO are not the good guys. The US has no interests in Ukraine, Russia does, and the US, or NATO do not care about Ukraine. Ukraine is a device to provoke Russia into invasion, as to weaken them. The West did not keep their end of the bargain yet because you believe what your government and national media tells you, you have no ability to objectively judge a conclusion.
Right, like the right to stage a coup because the Russians offered a better economic deal that was far more lenient than the harsh IMF and EU deal that gave the Ukrainians much better economic support than what the EU could have provided. The Ukrainian leadership chose a better economic deal while fully aware of the tensions between NATO and Russia. They operated in good faith. The Ukrainian nationalist does not operate in good faith, because like a lot of toxic nationality, they are irrational, and don't make wise decisions. Ukraine was not going to be a sovereign country while being in the EU and NATO. Sovereignty and democracy or even prosperity is what Western Ukrainians wanted, they wanted to go with the EU, because they hated Russians, and NATO is arming nationalist who hate Russians and Russia. The Russians view that as an existential threat. Had the Ukrainians wisely became non-aligned, they would not be in this predicament today. The Russian tried economic sanctions, even an economic deal that was much better than the EU deal. For decades, since the after the dissolution of the USSR, Russia expressed security concerns with NATO expansion. The Ukrainians were lead to a destructive path by the US. The Russians simply wanted a neutral Ukraine, like the way Finland was neutral for decades after WWII, but no reasonable minds prevailed.
You did not read the article. The reason why the Ukrainian government did not sign the Association Agreement with the EU is because the loan terms were harsh, and the Russians simply offered a much better deal with very few strings attached. The EU offered $850 million in loans while the Russians offered $15 billion dollars in loans, and cheap gas. This is why Ukrainian leadership did not side with the EU. The IMF wanted 40% tariffs on natural gas, to cut government sending, and the whole 9 yards, including changing their own laws. Let me point out this awfully bad lie that Ukraine, as a sovereign country, would make a sovereign choice to join NATO and the EU; by joining NATO, you forfeit your own foreign policy for the US providing security. European foreign states in NATO and the EU do not have sovereignty. EU states are controlled by the EU, which has its office in Brussels. None of them have "sovereignty". Sovereignty and democracy are not the motivating factors in staging a proxy war in Ukraine, it is through NATO, which the US exercises influence over the European states, and that is why principally, the conflict with Russia was spearheaded by the US, not France, or Germany. The UK being a prime exception.
Ukraine would have been just fine as a neutral state. But, because they want the freedom to choose as a sovereign country to subvert democracy, they choose to destroy their country. The Western Ukrainians, that is. The Russians are not in Ukraine because of Ukrainians per se, they are there because of the US who has no business being next door to Russia, arming, and training the Ukrainians under the pretense of NATO membership. Even today, the US continues to say Ukraine will still be part of NATO, which is egging on the Russians. The US wants no diplomacy with Russia. There is absolutely zero interest in any kind of compromise with Russia. The US wants its own way, their way, or the highway. No consideration for the security concerns of other countries, the US will get in trouble, and bring victims along with it. The war was preventable by the US, and the US is the principal reason why Russia acted preemptively.
Joe Biden signed a bill that funds the military or supports the military of Taiwan, Israel, and Ukraine. Yes, he loves war. Just because he uses others as pawns doesn't make him eligible for Nobel Peace Prize. Joe Biden is a foreign asset, a war criminal, he is compromised and intimidated. He is subordinate to US agencies and foreign lobbies. It can be argued that Joe Biden is a traitor. Biden's voting record speaks for itself.
That is publically, not privately. Europeans have no independent foreign policy. They have no sovereign foreign policy. They follow the US because the US pays for NATO, therefore NATO publically gets support from NATO members who benefit from US security. Context is important, and no, Germany does not support the war in Ukraine in private matters. Germany does not operate an independent foreign policy. It is actually against German interests to support the war in Ukraine. The US by itself would have no influence in Europe if not for NATO. NATO is the US control over Europe. Many Europeans are aware of this.