Geography matters. On the correlation between distance to Moscow and defence spending/aid to Ukraine. Great charts by @economist.com Europe could be torn apart by new divisions econ.st/4fQq6iL - ThreadSky

rikefranke.bsky.social • 50 days ago

Geography matters. On the correlation between distance to Moscow and defence spending/aid to Ukraine.

Great charts by @economist.com

Europe could be torn apart by new divisions
https://econ.st/4fQq6iL

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d-le-nen.bsky.social•50 days ago

Absolutely human. The farer away it is, the less I am concerned.
The question is: how to deal politically with this fact of life? Going for equall contributions - or accepting a similar increase on the basis of very varying contributions?

andreashopf.bsky.social•50 days ago

Europe is already in the process of tearing itself apart.

polpsychjoe.bsky.social•49 days ago

This raises an interesting question: why do the countries most likely to adopt a pro-Russia governing line currently appear to be of middling distance away rather than right near Russia or far away?

tfred.bsky.social•50 days ago

Spot on. The Baltics have a good memory

oeil-de-butor.bsky.social•50 days ago

ça serait probablement plus intéressant en regardant l'inverse de la distance, ou le log, ça doit beaucoup mieux coller.

joseph-yossarian.bsky.social•49 days ago

The Austrians are freeloading Putin apologists. A fact that is often ignored when we focus on Hungary and Slovakia.

owejessen.de•50 days ago

I'd like to see the standard deviation around the regression line :-) Actually it seems that bilateral help has a much stronger correlation to distance.

european-military-aircrafts.net•49 days ago

Fixed.

analoger.bsky.social•49 days ago

👍😅

european-military-aircrafts.net•49 days ago

(Nased on NATO figures)

european-military-aircrafts.net•49 days ago

2024 illustrate how nations are positioning in regards to the context ; lets have a look on the decade:

i.e:
- If DK, NL invested recently on equipment, their averages remain far below
- In other hand: France, 🇮🇹,🇪🇸,🇧🇪,🇳🇴 remain almost stable...
- Poland, 🇪🇪,🇱🇻,🇫🇮,🇬🇷,🇭🇺 made a huge efforts

european-military-aircrafts.net•49 days ago

- Sweden was almost stable until 2022 ; then planned a strong reaction for 2023 and 2024 [*]

[* based from the NATO document I used, 2023 and 2024 values are estimations]

aleckzandr.bsky.social•50 days ago

The Baltics picked up on the memo. God speed Lithuania, Latvia, & Estonia.

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