Today it's two years since Putin attacked my neighbour. I'm proud that Poland is giving so much to help Ukraine, and I believe everyone should give as much as possible to help them win, any other outcome will be a disaster to the Ukraine society and to Europe as a whole. And Ukraine should join NATO and the EU as quickly as possible, those two entities are the only ways Europe can be safe and prosperous.
@stfn Yes. I'm still smirking when I'm reminded of the Polish tanks "vanishing" from the warehouses.
And we should do more. There shouldn't even be any discussion about artillery shells. Sure, perhaps our arms industry was a bit small for supplying an actual war. But that was two years ago. At this point Zelensky should be begging the EU to stop sending shells because they ran out of frigging space to store them.
@mmeier exactly this. I am in awe with Denmark, they just gave Ukraine everything that they have when it comes to AAA.
@mmeier war in Ukraine is a wake up call for Europe, Poland is drastically (and often with more haste than sense) ramping up military spending, and sadly, with a neighbor like Russia, there is no other way to be safe.
@stfn Yeah, and Czechs were recently saying they knew a way to provide 800k artillery shells soonish. Which again makes me think: Germany is one of the richest countries on earth. We still have a lot of industry. We should be churning out arms like there's not tomorrow right now.
@mmeier yeah, but something went wrong with your country, and you have a lot of politicians who prefer making money with Russia, no matter the cost
@stfn Yeah. That was one massively failed 20-year bet on the entire "When we trade with them there's not going to be war" idea, and now we're paying the price for that after being rather rapidly cut off from cheap energy. I'm still rather relieved that the Scholz admin at least had enough fortitude to swallow the sanctions instead of running (too much) interference...
@mmeier yes, it's still much better than for example Orban, the best friend of Putin in the EU. And speaking of energy, another upside, if we call it that way, of the war with Russia is showing the world how fragile is dependency on fossil fuel, and how quickly we must switch to renewables