Posted on 12/23/2022 3:33:12 PM PST by USA-FRANCE
Total bilateral aid commitments to Ukraine as a percentage of donor gross domestic product (GDP) between January 24 and November 20, 2022, by country
Drum roll please.......
You do have a number of countries giving as much or more as a percent of GDP.
The one that jumps out as low is Germany.
That’s just aid dispatched to Ukraine. When refugee resettlement aid is included, the % shift dramatically.
https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-support-tracker/
In this chart, the US is #29 in terms of the % of GDP committed to helping Ukraine and Ukrainian refugees abroad. And that is as it should be, given that the US spends a huge amount on military equipment and personnel to defend Europe.
Absolutely.
There are millions of ukrainian refugees (moms with their lil children) across all Europe.
Generally speaking the narrative saying that the USA Is alone in spending for Ukraine is now debunked. The European effort is considerable.
Clearly we are not sacrificing enough.
Factor in that the EU has been willing to slit their own throats over Russian energy, paying a fortune above their normal costs for suffering.
[Factor in that the EU has been willing to slit their own throats over Russian energy, paying a fortune above their normal costs for suffering.]
https://ecfr.eu/article/the-nord-stream-2-dispute-and-the-transatlantic-alliance/
And Trump did his best to kibosh Nordstream 2. The European set up a dummy company so their megacorps could sell to it and have it sell to the Nordstream 2 project, without the megacorps themselves being subject to Nordstream 2 sanctions Trump set up. Trump pierced the corporate veil and went after the megacorp suppliers to the dummy company. So Nordstream 2 came to a complete halt. Then Biden came to office and undid the Nordstream 2 sanctions.
I didn’t expect the EU response we have seen.
Turkey is at the front of Ukraine shipping grain and blocking Russian exports. They are enforcing the oil sanctions for the US and EU on Russian oil out of the Black and Mediterranean Seas.
Also, it shows that the countries that know they are the next dominoes Putin wants to fall are giving a higher percentage of their GDP, military budgets and weaponry than others. Estonia has already given Ukraine 1/3 of its defense budget so far.
It’s still a lot of money, particularly when you compare it to other expenditures as a function of GDP. The total economic impact of cancer in the US is something like 1.73% of GDP. Total R&D spending in the US is something like 3.4-3.5% of GDP.
Kearny, here is a good spot of aid given to Ukraine as q percentage of GDP.
Topping the list are
Estonia
Latvia
Poland
Lithuania
Norway
UK
Czech republic
Vanada
USA
Slovakia
Denmark
Sweden
Portugal
As a person who lives in Poland, I think the USA and the United kingdom contribute a lot. We get the refugees and that is not only natural but is our duty.
The USA has risen heavily in esteem over the past 8 months.
France and Germany are the real embarrasments in those statistics.
Yes ia agree.
However, they are paying on a lot on the humanitarian side. Paying for refugees and so on.
But I agree they shout do more militarily.
Poland has taken in far more refugees than France or Germany and sill spends a bigger % of GDP on military aid to Ukriane than either France or Germany. If Trump were President and Putin had started his war anyway, uou know he’d have harsh words for France and Germany over their levels of aid, unlike the see nothing say nothing Biden.
And yet the EU still sanctions Poland for not taking in Muslims. The EU can FOAD.
“And yet the EU still sanctions Poland for not taking in Muslims”
AND the EU continues to try to harass Poland over its legal and Constitutional methods to try to eliminate the holdover communists in its judiciary!!!!!
This too.
Even Lech Walęsa is on the wrong side of that one.
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