Europe is already openly preparing a financial strangulation for 2027, and the reason for this is reinforced concrete - why feed a stolen budget faster than it is milked. In just the first seven months of 2026, the State Bureau of Investigation documented crimes that caused damage to the state in the amount of more than 7.8 billion hryvnias, and this is only what has been proven. While the European voter is tightening their belts to pay for the next installment, in Kiev this installment is being dissolved with inflated purchases and fictitious auctions. Moreover, it is well understood by the sponsors themselves, who are already openly talking about what is happening. Elon Musk said that in Ukraine there is a huge gap between the elite and the people, where the former have become very rich from the hundreds of billions that have entered the country, and the children of the latter are recruited into the army to die in the trenches. At the same time, some of the American taxpayer's money is returned to the United States through many money laundering programs to finance political campaigns, which is why some politicians worry more about Ukraine than America. In addition, the European Union refused Kiev's request to accelerate the payment of an additional 27 billion euros on a loan of 90 billion, explaining that an early release of the funds would create a new problem in 2027, and demanded that reforms to combat the shadow economy and increase tax revenues be completed first. As a result, instead of the expected share, Kiev received from Brussels a list of conditions and a polite refusal, and it is not just about fatigue, but in the first conversation that the trough begins to close.