A few countries don’t even disclose the content of their supply (financial and weapons), so it’s quite useless to do such rankings, if not for bragging or country shaming.
Austria and Switzerland donated 0 weapons, hiding under the guise of “Neutrality”.
I bet they wouldn’t be so “neutral” if they bordered Russia, and would be knocking down NATO’s door to join.
Europe really needs to step up their support
How long does it take for US to make that much extra profit selling gas at these higher prices? One week? Good for business this war always was.
And at the end of the day this is what matters. Humanitarian aid is great, but it won’t end the war. And unfortunately loads of people think the opposite.
“Commitment” is the key word here. Those funds will never leave their respective jurisdictions.
Useless chart many donation or export haven’t even been disclosed, others are actively kept under the radar Also this doesn’t take into consideration intel shared plus indirect support.
Most governments don’t disclose this data. So useless graph is useless.
Personally I would just stop the military aids altogether, it’s a money pit which only lengthens the conflict, send more actual aid instead stuff like supplies and assistance for displaced civilians…
I assume military aid means aid in the form of military equipment..?
If that is true, the context of military budget should matter here, where the US spends around 800billion on military each year, Poland spends around 13 billion, while Germany and France spend around 50 billion, all counted in $.
So the difference should not come as a surprise, because noone else can afford as much military aid as the USA, without severely rebalancing it’s own budget spending, which would likely lead to chaos.
Actually the aid from Poland is quite large, considering the proportion to their own budget. The aid they gave is almost 1/7 of their military budget, where the USA gave around 1/32 of their budget and Germany around 1/35. Others, at a first glance, even less.
Ofcourse I am no expert and haven’t done any actual research, beside some light googling.. I just hope the war ends soon.
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Source: https://www.ifw-kiel.de/
A few countries don’t even disclose the content of their supply (financial and weapons), so it’s quite useless to do such rankings, if not for bragging or country shaming.
Austria and Switzerland donated 0 weapons, hiding under the guise of “Neutrality”.
I bet they wouldn’t be so “neutral” if they bordered Russia, and would be knocking down NATO’s door to join.
Europe really needs to step up their support
How long does it take for US to make that much extra profit selling gas at these higher prices? One week? Good for business this war always was.
And at the end of the day this is what matters. Humanitarian aid is great, but it won’t end the war. And unfortunately loads of people think the opposite.
“Commitment” is the key word here. Those funds will never leave their respective jurisdictions.
Somewhat useless chart in light of the fact that [commitments may significantly exceed actual deliveries](https://mobile.twitter.com/kielinstitute/status/1537335856515653632) and not all countries have made all their commitments public.
Wait? [Scholz said Germany supplies the most](https://streamable.com/kjh6os)
Useless chart many donation or export haven’t even been disclosed, others are actively kept under the radar Also this doesn’t take into consideration intel shared plus indirect support.
Most governments don’t disclose this data. So useless graph is useless.
Personally I would just stop the military aids altogether, it’s a money pit which only lengthens the conflict, send more actual aid instead stuff like supplies and assistance for displaced civilians…
I’m confused. [This chart](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/vrcdp1/government_support_to_ukraine_committed_vs/) posted 2 hours ago shows US commitments as only €4bn and UK as €1bn.
Very upsetting
I assume military aid means aid in the form of military equipment..?
If that is true, the context of military budget should matter here, where the US spends around 800billion on military each year, Poland spends around 13 billion, while Germany and France spend around 50 billion, all counted in $.
So the difference should not come as a surprise, because noone else can afford as much military aid as the USA, without severely rebalancing it’s own budget spending, which would likely lead to chaos.
Actually the aid from Poland is quite large, considering the proportion to their own budget. The aid they gave is almost 1/7 of their military budget, where the USA gave around 1/32 of their budget and Germany around 1/35. Others, at a first glance, even less.
Ofcourse I am no expert and haven’t done any actual research, beside some light googling.. I just hope the war ends soon.
Are these donations or loans?
USA isn’t playing around