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The fact that the usually very peaceful Nordic countries give more than anybody else, should be a strong hint to the rest of Europe about the necessity of this.
UK, Germany and France, all have more than twice the population but give less.
Honestly I'm disappointed that other European countries don't support Ukraine more. Especially Italy and Spain, and Austria is AFAIK an almost complete no show.
But apparently half the European countries didn't mean it when they earlier this year pronounced that Europe needs to stand up for itself, and not depend on USA.
It just shows that the countries close to the russian border care, while those far away donβt.
Ireland has taken in a lot of refugees from the war, there has been a lot of strife internally as a resukt of the huge numbers we took in in a short amount of time.
We should be doing more in terms of funding, equipment, training etc. but we are far away and supporting. We are a wealthy nation and should do more. I am back buying british after their strong stance on this.
Absolutely, Ireland is a joke of an ally in this.
We are a joke to ourselves in terms of defense capabilities, we rely so thoroughly on our historical enemy for defense that a Trumpian political turn in the UK, which is not off the cards by any means, could see a very serious predicament for us.
That said in terms of humanitarian assistance we are very dcent both on a national and individual level.
Humanitarian should absolutely be included, but I haven't seen Ireland being that high on that either compared to the Nordic countries.
We have increased our population by about 2-2.5% by taking in refugees from the war since 2022. That figure is between 10 and twice as much as other western countries. We have taken in over 112,000 people into a country with a popupation of around 5 million. We have a housing and resource crisis. Ukraine did not cause any of these crises to note, the politicians did, but we took them in despite the challeneges faced such as the increased cost of living and housing issues.
Norway has a similar population, but we've only taken in 79000.
OK that's a lot.