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- 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.
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To be clear to anyone skimming, we’re currently spending half of what Russia is each month.
It’s kind of impressive how well it’s been going in that light. Our system is truly much more efficient.
In the future, it would be good if there was a way to allocate budget to supporting foreign wars the way it’s allocated for domestic militaries. Right now it sounds like it goes package-by-package, so spending is very difficult to sustain once the public gets bored.
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.
Just have to kick these shithead Russia backed right wing assholes out of our governments first.