Ich habe mir gerade einen Teil eines dänischen Podcasts angehört, in dem es heißt, dass Norwegen aufgrund des Anstiegs der Gaspreise offenbar 800 Milliarden Kronen (ich bin nicht sicher, ob dänisch oder norwegisch) durch den Krieg in der Ukraine verdient hat. Dennoch unterstützt Norwegen die Ukraine nur mit 0,7 Prozent ihres BIP (Link unten) und ist damit gemessen am BIP das Land mit dem geringsten Beitrag in Skandinavien. Anscheinend ist dies zum Teil darauf zurückzuführen, dass jährlich nur 3 Prozent des Wertes des norwegischen Ölfonds gefördert werden dürfen. Mich interessiert, wie viel darüber in Norwegen diskutiert wird. Gibt es in Norwegen eine bedeutende Bewegung, die eine stärkere Unterstützung für die Ukraine vorschlägt?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDlZHdksK6Q (Ausschnitt aus dem Podcast)
https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-support-tracker/ (Karte, die die Unterstützung der einzelnen Länder für die Ukraine zeigt, gemessen am BIP und in der Gesamtzahl)
Von mkn1997
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Yes, several of the political parties such as the Conservative Party and the Liberal Party are advocating for increased aid to Ukraine as well as increased funding for the Norwegian military.
In theory we could absolutely spend more of the oil and gas money on direct support to Ukraine. The rule is in many ways there to prevent overspending within the Norwegian economy, inflation issues and so on. If we spent extra billions on buying weapons from abroad, it wouldn’t really mess with our economy.
Our current government is absolutely not doing enough for Ukraine. Heck even the Greens (climate change hippies) party have stated that.
But in partial defense of our current efforts, it’s important to state that we have made long term committments to helping Ukraine too. So spending money in many years to come. The problem is that Ukraine needs money and weapons now, not only in five to ten years.
I am ashamed of how little we contribute when you consider how much we have earned.
Whilst it may be controversial I believe Norway has every chance to contribute significantly more, without the need to amend regulations (such as the 3%).
Quite the contrary, the current prime minister and his government are constantly criticised for spending too much on Ukraine and taking in too many refugees. Ukraine – Russia war has gone on too long, its time that they sit down at a table and sort it out. Russia is not going to back down and the west just cant keep pouring resources into a war with no end.
It is way to low, but It woundn’t hurt if those of us who claim to care also made private donations aswell
That was a very speculative take on the situation.
More money and equipment have proven not to help Ukraine. Just look at the number of defectors in Ukrainian army. It’s time to negotiate.
https://youtu.be/hWz1BQev3f4?si=pBWU8KDQ0YelQl3v
From15:50 you can hear how he is describing the situation about this case.
While we in general support Ukraine’s defensive war against Russia, it is currently very unpopular to spend money abroad. Those same high gas prices have increased the electricity prices in Norway by several hundreds or thousands % at peak hours due to electricity prices being linked financially to the gas price. During yule, it was estimated that 500000 was getting some of their food from food banks due to the increases in prices across the board.
So foreign aid is not very popular politically due to the election next this year.
Though we have emptied a lot of our weapon storages, sending what few operational leo2a4 we have, all our remaining f16, training Ukranian f16 pilots, etc. We could do more, and a lot of people want to spend more. But atm it is giving up the 2025 election if they do.