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Is there a particular reason or historical context that the scandinavian countries invest(ed) in the "Iron curtain" nations? I came across something like that when I first read the Girl with the dragon tattoo series many years ago and did some basic googling but did not find out much.
Damn. That is huge. More than €1000 per capita >

Somewhat amusingly, I have already spent more on Ukraine than €1000 in 2022 (am Norwegian). >

Hookers? >

I directly paid the army so they could get weapons. >

what paypal account is this ? (semi serious but still serious question) >

ah well SEPA is good enough >

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 >

We could give €70bn over 5 years and we wouldn't really notice that much of a difference in anything. >

No because that kind of liberal spending doesn't build this fund, saving saving saving does.
Classic liberal >

We don’t have money because conservatives (predominantly) decided wealthy individuals and corporations need to be given handouts in the form of tax breaks. The spending patterns in the US are pretty benign compared to the rest of the world. Every other advanced country spends 5-20% more of their GDP than we do. We simply refuse to collect enough in tax revenue to operate effectively as a government. There’s no other way around that. Arguing that it’s liberal spending is a waste of breath, although I’m sure it makes you feel better. >

If you’re pro-taxes then I don’t care what else you think about spending, we can be on the same team lol >

Yes, high taxes to not be spent now and instead infinitely reinvested (ie never to be given back out as direct stimulus in any form to people as welfare cheques or any such degenerate wasted money), the closest thing to welfare money should be spent on is infrastructure (not bike lanes or highways, actually useful infrastructure like power generation and internet infrastructure to be owned by the state) >

Lol you do you my friend but you may be striking the hardest bargain imaginable by including highways (and presumably every other form of lesser transportation infrastructure) in that statement >

Itl never happen anyways
Degenerate liberals will get elected, raise taxes and spend alllll that money giving heroin addicts stimulus to send right off to the worst place on earth and in history, China, in exchange for cheap shit directly funding the authoritarinaization of humanity when our financial resources are drained and they pass the west in gdp and take us over instead of investing it properly and giving those scumfuckers in that shit hole the global fuck you >

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

Which one? Fern? >

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. >

They are making so much from the gas price increases and the need for Europe to replace Russian gas, the Norwegian government has said that they want as much of that profit to go back to ukraine as possible as to not be considered war profiteering. >

Fuck yeah Norway >

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

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

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. >

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. >

How so? >

By instigating a massive anti-Russian campaign. >

Surely you can recognise that it’s not aimed at you? If you know you’re not part of the problem (indeed, by donating you’re part of the solution instead!), I’d think it’s pretty easy, cognitively, to exclude yourself as a target?
That being said, if you’re uncomfortable with U24, you can always donate to smaller groups of soldiers directly (like a particular battalion), or humanitarian efforts like the World Kitchen. This has been my choice, for example, when I’ve made donations - I like to be able to see my efforts make a difference directly (I have donated to a few drone groups for them fundraising to make bulk amounts of the FPV ones). >

Well done Norway! Class act.