- cross-posted to:
- news@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- news@beehaw.org
Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said Ukraine still has a path to victory and allies can help it defeat Russian forces by contributing a chunk of their economic output to the war effort.
Every member of the so-called Ramstein group — more than 50 countries including all 31 members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization — should channel the equivalent of 0.25% of their gross domestic product to Kyiv annually, Kallas said. That would raise at least €120 billion ($131 billion) and swing the conflict in Ukraine’s favor, she said.
naively pushing for this is difficult because it can be easily interpreted as funding proxy wars and forever wars. It would probably need to be obfuscated as ‘effective defense spending’ or an excuse to reduce/replace stockpiles. The later a reason for the first few Ukrainian aid bills iirc.
Quite possibly. I’m no good as a politician or salesperson, but that would be the policy solution to a lack of reliability in the allocation process.
If the guys who are always drunk on Saturdays win because they have a longer attention span, that’s just unbelievable.