Estonia's Defense Minister Hanno Pevklur said that European allies are "in a very early stage" of developing the plan to deploy peacekeeping troops to Ukraine.
It doesn’t even need to be combat troops, for each combat troop there are about 3-4 handling everything else, like supplies, maintenance, instructors etc. We could send troops to help with those personnel demanding tasks, without being in actual combat.
I absolutely agree that Europe needs to wake up, and take the consequence of Russia starting an unprovoked war against a European democracy.
Give Ukraine EVERYTHING they need ASAP, and help with back-end personnel.
Europe has a 10 times bigger economy than Russia, but Russia still manage to outspend Europe on military. Europe only needs to spend about 3-3.5% to catch up, and we are not (politically) able to do even that?
Europe only needs to spend about 3-3.5% to catch up, and we are not (politically) able to do even that?
Because usually extra spending comes from the healthcare and pensions of the population who are already having problems after the inflation what doesn´t get much votes and probably pushes more people to the far right who rather invite Putin in.
Actual war funding generally comes from taxing the rich too. In USA during WW2 the rich had to pay 90% taxes!!!
All of Europe has been giving the rich lower taxes for decades, raise the taxes on the rich could easily cover most, also without going to extremes. We only need about 1% extra tax to cover the increased military expenditure.
To claim we can’t afford that without sacrificing healthcare and services is based on propaganda by the 1%.
It doesn’t even need to be combat troops, for each combat troop there are about 3-4 handling everything else, like supplies, maintenance, instructors etc. We could send troops to help with those personnel demanding tasks, without being in actual combat.
I absolutely agree that Europe needs to wake up, and take the consequence of Russia starting an unprovoked war against a European democracy.
Give Ukraine EVERYTHING they need ASAP, and help with back-end personnel.
Europe has a 10 times bigger economy than Russia, but Russia still manage to outspend Europe on military. Europe only needs to spend about 3-3.5% to catch up, and we are not (politically) able to do even that?
Because usually extra spending comes from the healthcare and pensions of the population who are already having problems after the inflation what doesn´t get much votes and probably pushes more people to the far right who rather invite Putin in.
Actual war funding generally comes from taxing the rich too. In USA during WW2 the rich had to pay 90% taxes!!!
All of Europe has been giving the rich lower taxes for decades, raise the taxes on the rich could easily cover most, also without going to extremes. We only need about 1% extra tax to cover the increased military expenditure.
To claim we can’t afford that without sacrificing healthcare and services is based on propaganda by the 1%.
Yes, a lot of modern politics is based on it unfortunately