• NIB@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    That’s 20 billion per year. The EU’s alone defense spending for 2023 was 270bil. This is not a lot of money.

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      7 months ago

      Yeah, this is less the cavalry is here and more “we’ve committed 3 peanuts, which is better than no peanuts”. It’s probably enough to help Ukraine a bit, assuming they can agree to it and fund it as committed.

      It’s unclear if this is humanitarian, non-lethal or general military aid, from the non-paywalled section of the article.

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      7 months ago

      I get your point about how it compares relatively. But I beg to differ that $100 billion is not a lot of money