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Western Europe must keep sending billions in aid to Ukraine even if it comes at the expense of health services and education provision to citizens, former NATO Secretary General and current Norwegian Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg, has said.
Stoltenberg, who led the military bloc from 2014 to 2024 and oversaw the deterioration of the Ukraine crisis into a full-scale conflict in 2022, addressed the Warsaw Security Forum on Tuesday. His remarks echoed previous calls by his successor, Mark Rutte, to cut social spending in order to further aid Kiev.
“I know that one additional billion to Ukraine or one billion extra to national defense is one billion less to other good purposes like health, education and infrastructure. But we must remember that the highest cost is to let Putin win,” he said.
Stoltenberg was a strong backer of Ukraine’s failed bloc-membership bid and of developing NATO-compatible infrastructure in Ukraine – measures that Russia has repeatedly cited as root causes of the conflict.
Stoltenberg can go fuck himself but I have too assume to many (not all) European Countries would just roll over and let themselves get annexed by Uncle Sam if push came to shove. If there was any real resistance I would assume it would come afterwards.