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I am yet to find one which cannot be described as corrupt and ungrateful in general. As far as Ukrainian government, I've noticed a wave of anti-corruption news headlines these weeks. And Zelensky made it very clear back in summer that he doesn't appreciate my contributions to UAF.
Damn. That is huge. More than €1000 per capita >

Norway makes around €130-190 bn per year on oil and gas. €60bn more in 2022 than in 2021 due to the soaring gas prices. We should give €7.3bn each year, if not more.
Source. >


€60bn more in 2022 than in 2021 due to the soaring gas prices.

Wait…according to esteemed Reddit experts in commodity trading that would mean Norway is price gouging. >

No entity on earth has the ability to raise or lower commodity prices, except possibly OPEC (even though member states are constantly cheating on their production quotas), especially not a country which produces slightly more than 2% of the world's oil. >

That would affect the price at the forecourt though >

It’s amazing to me that Norway is proposing this when I read that the population of Norway is less than the population of Minnesota (Minnesota 5.7M, Norway 5.4M). >

Norway has the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, providing a value of roughly $250,000 per Norwegian. They dumped all the surplus profits from their huge oil and gas reserves into it.
That 7 billion is pocket change for them >

Man the Scandinavian countries are lucky huh. Peaceful area full of natural resources >

Peaceful because we decided to stop fighting each other. No luck involved. >

Yes but that decision has been made centuries ago. Or am I wrong >

That decision is made every day ;) >

I thought it the enduring peace has been possible because you’re culturally similar to each other and share a considerable amount of history and genes >

Oh hell no. We've been fighting like mad for hundreds of years. >

Fighting like fighting over who’s songs are better or fighting like Russians with Ukrainians? >

Fuck yeah Norway >

Ik its a complicated situation but I’m not so sure funding war deserves a fuck yeah >

Alright don’t help Ukraine, let Russia take over >

You don’t support negotiating a peaceful resolution? >

No - I support Ukraine getting all of its people back and Russia getting zero stolen land and abducted children.
Some things are worse than war. An unjust peace is worse. Slavery is worse. Autocracy is worse. I've seen such things with my own eyes. >

Briton is also working on a 5 year aid supply to Ukraine. >

What, a single Briton? Wow. >

Hope it isn't Liz Truss >

Are you British? >

Nope, her failure is pretty well known internationally however. >

This coming a week after the press release of Norway buying new Leo2A7+ tanks to replace their aging Leo2A4NOs, pretty sure those will be ukranian a year from now. >

I think it's pretty telling that this is a multi-year commitment. Could be that the sentiment among many nations is this war will extend longer than being openly discussed. >

Even if it ended tomorrow, they would still need massive help to rebuild. For a long time. >

That's a lot of fucking money even for a large GDP nation. WTF Norway! >

Probably all that extra oil money they are getting still kudos to Norway >

That's some real money, if the rest of europe  proportionately would do the same, it would be profound. >

In my eyes it’s a good mix of good policy and plain luck. 
One thing is Norway being lucky with our natural reserves, especially oil, in relation to our population. Another lucky coincidence is the less known story of the IIRC former oil minister of Irak, who’d seen first hand how an oil industry completely controlled by the government led to the regime of Saddam Hussein, had fled said regime - to Norway - where he contacted the government just as they found oil and warned them not to go full private or state ownership/control over the industry. This led to Norway going for a hybrid model where the state and privately owned companies keep each other in check. >

Buy shit for small funds or soldiers directly. Big funds like Prytula's fund or "Come back alive" are also not controlled by government and are considered trustworthy. >

Thanks! That's the answer I was looking for. >

I disagree with your position about "corrupt and ungrateful" and think it's still useful to support this government. But if you think so and still want to help, yeah, there's your answer. Just wanted to clarify.