Germany is planning to nearly halve military aid for Ukraine next year, from around €8bn (£6.7bn; $8.7bn) to around €4bn, according to a draft budget approved by the government.
Finance Minister Christian Lindner said Ukraine’s financing was “secure for the foreseeable future” due to a G7 group of rich nations scheme to raise $50bn from interest on frozen Russian assets.
Germany is Ukraine’s second biggest military donor, after the US. In 2024, Berlin’s budget for Kyiv is set at nearly €7.5bn.
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ffs people can’t even read the second sentence in the excerpt.
The rest of the money comes from the frozen assets interest. Ukraine is not getting less.
The curse of the crappy headline
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Austerity for the win /s
OFC, so they can spend the other half providing weapons to Israel.
Germany stopped weapons exports to Israel. No official policy change they’re keeping it quiet but the federal government isn’t issuing any export permissions any more.
Germany stopped weapons exports to Israel.
Where’s your source on that?
Here’s mine from yesterday, claiming literally the opposite.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/german-chancellor-vows-to-continue-arms-deliveries-to-israel/3284468
There’s even a video interview of Scholz, where he was asked about delivering weapons to Israel (which I cannot find ad hoc)
Where’s your source on that?
The ICJ, for one.
Here’s mine from yesterday, claiming literally the opposite.
Not ruling something out and doing something are completely different things. For more, see my reply to the sibling comment.
The ICJ, for one.
What did they say? Unless serious actions are taken, their words don’t mean shit.
Here’s an exhaustive overview of the case so far with tons of links.
The courts words are, paraphrasing the gist, “Germany has export controls in place sufficient to avoid what Nicaragua accused it of, there are no signs that it’s not actually sticking to them, as such we don’t see any need to order Germany to do anything”.
