Who is Doing What to Help Ukraine?
money talks, bullshit walks
If you want to get past the press releases, spin, and general garbage takes about who is doing what to help Ukraine, the Kiel Institute should be one of your first stops.
Their Ukraine Support Tracker is heavy on facts and light on what you don't need. If like me you like to see the dataset, they've posted it in the raw or a smoother form.
They are doing this right.
I especially like how they break out aid as a percentage of GDP, the Salamander Approved™ way that smaller nations show they are giving a fair-share effort.
Dig in to the data. Talk is talk; action is action; money speaks.
Remember.
After Ukraine, it's the Baltic States, after that, Poland... And Germany is right across the border. "Therefore, Russia has two options, either the military occupation of Europe, or such a
reorganization of the European space that will make this geopolitical sector a reliable
strategic allies of Moscow, while preserving its sovereignty, autonomy and autarky.
The first option is so unrealistic that it should not be seriously discussed. The second
option is difficult, but feasible, since half a century spent by Europe in the position of
an American colony left a serious mark on the European consciousness.
A friendly Europe as a strategic ally of Russia can emerge only if it is united. Otherwise,
the Atlantic adversary will find many ways to split and split the European bloc,
provoking a conflict similar to the two world wars. Therefore, Moscow should
contribute to the European unification as much as possible, especially by supporting
the Central European states, first of all, Germany. The alliance between Germany and
France, the Paris Berlin axis (de Gaulle's project), is the backbone around which it is
most logical to build the body of New Europe. Germany and France have a strong antiAtlanticist political tradition (both right-wing and left-wing political currents). Being for
the time being potential and hidden, she will at some point declare herself loudly.
Moscow's task is to wrest Europe from the control of the United States (NATO), to promote
its unification, to strengthen integration ties with Central Europe under the sign of the
main foreign policy axis Moscow Berlin. Eurasia needs an allied friendly Europe. From a
military point of view, it will not pose a serious threat on its own (without the United
States) for a long time to come, and economic cooperation with neutral Europe will be
able to solve most of the technological problems of Russia and Asia in exchange
for resources and strategic military partnership." https://n01r.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Foundations-of-Geopolitics-Geopolitical-Future-of-Russia-Alexander-Dugin-English-auto-translation-with-appended-original.pdf, p212.
"Back in 1997, Aleksandr Dugin published his treatise Foundations of Geopolitics, a book that has been stated to be used as a textbook by the Russian General Staff Academy, as well as being coauthored by General Nikolai Klokotov of the General Staff Academy, and with Col. General Leonid Ivashov of the International Department of the Russian Ministry of Defense as an advisor. Here Dugin lays out his strategy for Russia in the 21st century. ... Russia can and should use their natural resources to turn former American allies into Russian allies, and Dugin advises fomenting instability and separatism within the United States itself:
“It is especially important to introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics…(p. 367)” https://centerforsecuritypolicy.org/aleksandr-dugin-putins-rasputin/
The irony of the Germans buying the most Russian oil and gas and providing the least to the Ukrainians.