Comments by "afcgeo" (@afcgeo882) on "Zelensky ally calls West cowards over Russian invasion - BBC News" video.

$200 million is a few trucks the way it’s priced. The US and UK have donated tens of BILLIONS. Also, NATO pays for most of Estonia’s weapons. Estonia spends just 2.3% of its GDP on defense. The US spends 3.4% on its own defense, then billions more to defend YOU.
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The UN has nothing to do with this.
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Most of the weapons are donated by NATO member states, through Brussels, coordinating who gives what.
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This demonstrates clearly the duality of Eastern European countries. On the one hand, they want to be like Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, etc. and on the other, they have cultures and a way of thinking that simply isn’t compatible with those values. They use the EU solely as a source of money and do not - cannot subscribe to the ethical values. Ukraine, for decades, voted to stay out of the EU and NATO, choosing to be friends with their Russian brothers. They were warned, repeatedly, of what may, and will eventually come. They CHOSE not to accept themselves as a part of the Western family, even when other Eastern European nations did. Now when the predictions have arrived, they call the West… the only ones keeping them alive, “cowards”. Why? Ukraine did this to itself. Ukraine chose this for itself. Ukraine isn’t alone though… the domestic policies of Poland, Hungary, Northern Macedonia, Bulgaria and Romania are also at odds with the ethics valued by the EU. These countries are only in the union fir their own benefit, not the benefit of the whole. To be fair, they’re not at odds with just the EU, but Western Europe as a whole, as well as Canada, the United States and other progressive nations.
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No one’s happy to stand by and watch, but the Russian nuclear option adds an AK-47 on the bully’s back. Do we hit the bully and hope he doesn’t go on a shooting rampage, killing everyone in sight? There’s also the issue of that kid who’s being beaten repeatedly choosing to stand by the bully, despite being offered protection and being warned.
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@zcrib3 Why by population? Also, all of Estonia’s military aid so far is coming from the US sending Estonia the aid. The US alone provided $180 million in military aid to the Baltic states in 2022. That’s $10 million more than in 2021. Despite that, the US has spent over $100 billion in military aid to Ukraine over the last few years.
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@zcrib3 Contributed by the population or by the government? As private citizens, Americans outspend the rest of the world combined, per capita, in charitable donations. No other nation has contributed nearly as much as Americans have, on individual basis. Government spending is public funds, not “the people”, which is why expenses like that are considered “per GDP” as that accounts for the wealth of the nation, not just quantity of individuals. Otherwise populous, but poor nations like India or Bangladesh would never be able to contribute anything of value. Quite apparently the education system is better here than in Estonia.
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@roymaddocks3184 I agree completely. That said, it’s not short on resources. It’s short on resources Ukrainians can actually use. We can give then F-16s, but no one knows how to fly them. We can give them 5.56mm ammunition, but that’s a NATO caliber and their rifles can’t fire them. We can give them Abrams tanks, but they don’t know how to use them. The amount of Warsaw Pact weaponry NATO has is very limited and the countries that have it will end up with nothing usable if they give it away. Poland was going to give away their SUs and MiGs because they already fly the F-16 and are retiring the SUs and MiGs either way, but Romania, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Hungary aren’t in the same position.
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You have been. Go to Ukraine and help!
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And yet you’re first in line at Karening here.
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@chasetonga When someone isn’t making sense to you it’s often because you aren’t intelligent enough to understand. Let me dumb it down for you… You’re the one here, complaining like a Karen/Snowflake, because you’re butthurt. And yes, apparently I’m in the line too, but you’re clearly at the head of it.
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