Go Baltics! We have invested interest for Ukraine to win 😀
Spain is like: We are lit. on the limit of the continent. Lol Just buy our gas😬😞
Looking at this graph makes me wonder why Germany gets so much more criticism than France.
I’d say the political value of the Baltics contribution is far larger than the military one. Compared in absolute numbers it’s a blip compared to Poland, UK or Germany, but it really sets an example that others feel compelled to emulate.
France showing its military leadership. /s
I feel like this metric doesn’t doesn’t tell you that much, if it doesn’t also list what the countries military budgets are. For example, Sweden’s defence spending is 1.3% of GDP, while Poland’s is 2.1%, so IMO the distance between the two “should” be greater when depicted graphically. It favours countries that are underfunding their militaries like Sweden.
Percentage of GDP is a better metric IMO.
I imagine that Hungary is 0%
interesting, further from Ukraine you are, less you send.
Everybody always shitting on Germany but France is doing fuckall to support Ukraine according to stats like this
Nice. Greetings from The Netherlands.
Nice
Romania?
My main takeaway from this is that the US military budget is absolutely massive. US has given far more than anyone else and it has barely made a dent in their total budget.
I believe the US alone outfunded the entire Russian military budget with its 6% contribution.
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I think it’s a really bad sign that 4 biggest EU economies are far behind America in both relative and absolute military support to Ukraine.
We constantly hear talk about the need for the EU to become independent from American military, how we don’t need them and how we can maintain EU’s security on our own. But now that there’s a war right next to us, we are once again relying on America to do most of the work.
This war is the most important challenge the EU has faced so far. And yet most big EU countries are on the right side of this chart. Lower than the US, lower than the UK. Hell, Canada is providing more military support to Ukraine than France or Italy. Canada.
The EU really needs to change its approach to military if it wants to be a major player on the global stage.
What I would question is how ring exchanges factor into this.
A good deal of aid has been faciliated by richer countries reimbursing smaller ones for donating their outdated hardware that Ukrainian troops are already familiar with.
Thank all those countries, without them maybe we could have lost the war.
Estonia is next on the list if Ukraine falls. And they are much smaller.
Damn we suck 💀
Bulgaria at 4th place with 22% of its annual military budget? Big, if true.
Polands is the most impressive but makes a lot of sense.
Some context for Czech Republic.
A week ago Czech Republic declassified what was given to Ukraine during last year.
Together 423 million of euros worth of material was donated. (around 0.16% of CZ GDP).
Additional weapons/ammo/vehicles worth 1.279 billion of euros were bought by Ukraine from Czech republic. (around 0.64% of CZ GDP)
According to these numbers it should be either ~11% donated or ~55% transferred (donated and bought). Calculating with 1.434% of military expenditure.
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Go Baltics! We have invested interest for Ukraine to win 😀
Spain is like: We are lit. on the limit of the continent. Lol Just buy our gas😬😞
Looking at this graph makes me wonder why Germany gets so much more criticism than France.
I’d say the political value of the Baltics contribution is far larger than the military one. Compared in absolute numbers it’s a blip compared to Poland, UK or Germany, but it really sets an example that others feel compelled to emulate.
France showing its military leadership. /s
I feel like this metric doesn’t doesn’t tell you that much, if it doesn’t also list what the countries military budgets are. For example, Sweden’s defence spending is 1.3% of GDP, while Poland’s is 2.1%, so IMO the distance between the two “should” be greater when depicted graphically. It favours countries that are underfunding their militaries like Sweden.
Percentage of GDP is a better metric IMO.
I imagine that Hungary is 0%
interesting, further from Ukraine you are, less you send.
Everybody always shitting on Germany but France is doing fuckall to support Ukraine according to stats like this
Nice. Greetings from The Netherlands.
Nice
Romania?
My main takeaway from this is that the US military budget is absolutely massive. US has given far more than anyone else and it has barely made a dent in their total budget.
I believe the US alone outfunded the entire Russian military budget with its 6% contribution.
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I think it’s a really bad sign that 4 biggest EU economies are far behind America in both relative and absolute military support to Ukraine.
We constantly hear talk about the need for the EU to become independent from American military, how we don’t need them and how we can maintain EU’s security on our own. But now that there’s a war right next to us, we are once again relying on America to do most of the work.
This war is the most important challenge the EU has faced so far. And yet most big EU countries are on the right side of this chart. Lower than the US, lower than the UK. Hell, Canada is providing more military support to Ukraine than France or Italy. Canada.
The EU really needs to change its approach to military if it wants to be a major player on the global stage.
What I would question is how ring exchanges factor into this.
A good deal of aid has been faciliated by richer countries reimbursing smaller ones for donating their outdated hardware that Ukrainian troops are already familiar with.
Thank all those countries, without them maybe we could have lost the war.
Estonia is next on the list if Ukraine falls. And they are much smaller.
Damn we suck 💀
Bulgaria at 4th place with 22% of its annual military budget? Big, if true.
Polands is the most impressive but makes a lot of sense.
Some context for Czech Republic.
A week ago Czech Republic declassified what was given to Ukraine during last year.
Together 423 million of euros worth of material was donated. (around 0.16% of CZ GDP).
Additional weapons/ammo/vehicles worth 1.279 billion of euros were bought by Ukraine from Czech republic. (around 0.64% of CZ GDP)
According to these numbers it should be either ~11% donated or ~55% transferred (donated and bought). Calculating with 1.434% of military expenditure.
Pretty close numbers either way.
Source is [Czech prime minister](https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/119wltg/war_in_ukraine_megathread_lii/j9vajje/).
Is the USA would have given 25% of its militaru budget to Ukraine Russia would have been dead🤣🤣🤣
France is just loosing all my little respect what was left anymore.
*Looks at Dutch percentage.*
Nice.
If I didn’t know better, this would be just like the Baltic nations doesn’t like Russia or something.
>!(This is an /s. I say this for those who can’t do the math.)!<
10.2% of nothing is nothing *taps temple*
Being from the Netherlands. Noice.
Eastern Europe towards Russia🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻
What is this in real terms?
Spain needs to buck up its ideas.