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TDOSS · 03-04-2025, 01:58 PM

(03-04-2025, 11:15 AM)Jag149 Wrote:
(03-04-2025, 05:22 AM)TDOSS Wrote: The article is pure [BLEEP]. The EU spent like 3-4 times as much money on Ukrainian aid than it did on Russian oil and gas. They compare all the oil and gas purchased by all countries with some minor part of the Ukrainian aid. I don't even know what they're comparing it to, but the EU institutions gave 46 billion in financial aid and that's not counting any individual countries aid. Also, what a weird phrased article; Europe spends more oil and gas is also confusing. Who are we talking about? Portugal? Ireland? Poland?

Not to mention, the article is comparing gross revenue to aid, which is not a relevant comparison. It's not like Russia received €22bn of profit to funnel into their war machine. The price caps were designed to keep Russia's tangible benefits substantially lower, while not disrupting the global oil market too severely and bringing about greater economic pain on the nations that are working to support Ukraine financially and militarily.

The reality is the EU can't switch off Russian gas over night. The EU went from like 40% of gas being Russian in 2021 to around 10% now. That's quite a quick switch, but getting to 0% Russian gas is another hurdle.

Time to show your source on that statement. I know you'll come back with more popular tripe, but that would just mean you can't.

Let's start here (last year data)

https://www.cfr.org/article/how-much-us-...ng-ukraine

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This counts for BOTH humanitarian aid, and military aid.

More important to note that isn't being noted, this is ALL aid, delivered and promised. It's including certain nations promising to provide aid multiple years from now, as equal to already delivered aid.

Among bilateral donors, the U.S. remains the top provider of aid, with a total of 75.1 billion Euro in allocations, driven in large part by its 51.6 billion euros of military aid.

Germany, the U.K., Japan, and Canada follow, with 14.7, 13.1, 9.1, and 7.2 billion Euro in total allocations respectively, to complete the ranking of the top 5 bilateral donors.

In terms of total bilateral allocations as a percent of 2021 GDP, Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania top the ranking with 1.8, 1.7, and 1.4 percent.

As a whole, Europe, which includes the EU institutions and member states as well as the U.K, Norway, Iceland, and Switzerland, has allocated a total of 110.2 billion Euro, of which roughly half (51.5 billion Euro) has been for military aid.

Look at the numbers, Europe does more than the USA.

Also, most Ukraine refugees are taken in by other European countries. This is also a burden on the countries budgets. How many Ukranian refugee has the US took? How about this year under Orange Jesus?