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Originally Posted by Pierre
Who exactly would that be? The EU, especially Germany, are well out of pocket. They’re paying Russia for gas they’re not getting. I haven’t seen anything at all from the EU or any other country about facing down Russia. Or financing Ukraine, indefinitely
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This sort of thing is still happening:
https://kyivindependent.com/news-fee...nks-to-ukraine
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Slovenia sends 28 M-55S tanks to Ukraine
Slovenia sent the tanks to Ukraine in exchange for equipment from Germany, an agreement concluded in September between Slovenia’s Prime Minister Robert Golob and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
In July, Slovenia had already sent 35 amphibious infantry fighting vehicle BVP M80A to Ukraine.
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And bilateral aid by GDP:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/...-of-donor-gdp/
Note that the Baltics plus Poland occupy the top 4 places in the chart.
In geopolitical terms, I think it’s unwise also to underestimate the extent to which Western governments understand exactly how large a pile of excrement they will be storing up for themselves if the ultimate outcome of this conflict looks anything at all like a victory for Russia, which can be loosely taken to mean Russia extending its control of Ukrainian territory, with Putin still in control, but could as a minimum be merely the formal ceding of Crimea to Russia.