The fuck Germany?
Well that’s pretty wack. Hopefully they get shamed into reversing course
The budget is without such things, the Ukraine aid probability gets financed over different positions or special budgets because Germany has a constitutional break on making debt. And tbh, we don’t have enough money for our own stuff right now.
Edit: apparently the plan is to finance the weapons with frozen Russian assets, so even better.
The budget is without such things
The budget for Ukraine has come partially from our military budget and partially special budgets so far (or foreign aid)
https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/deutschland/scholz-regierungserklaerung-haushalt-100.html (German)
the Ukraine aid probability gets financed over different positions or special budgets
Was a assumption because thats how it was before, see source.
we don’t have enough money for our own stuff
Its very common knowledge in Germany and currently about 2/3 of political news
Here is a article about it.
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/haushalt-ampelkoalition-110.html
(there is waaaaaay more but that should be enough)
Especially since you have no sources for any of your claims…
Im speaking from a German perspective and all of this is pretty common knowledge here. Its also a major driver for the extreme right and the new pro Russia party (BSW, wich is quite basically a modern version of the SED from GDR)
The current budget allocation is about as high as the one in the 2024 budget was initially. They just added further spending over the year. Th other part is using Russian money instead. The real reason this is the current state, is that they want to get the budget passed as quickly as possible and the debt brake means that any funding for Ukraine has to be balanced with a cut in social spending. Obviously that is not popular.
Fund now Ukraine or pay tribute to Russia when they invade later.
