America, Poland and tiny Baltic states stand out
. But some countries are doing a lot more than others to help the country defend itself.
The calculations are fiddly. For instance, researchers must try to disentangle overlapping promises, and distinguish between arms and funds pledged and those which have actually been delivered. They also need to estimate the value of military kit taken from existing stocks. America’s economy is, admittedly, the largest in the world . When calculating assistance as a share of economic output, however, it still outstrips European countries. They have committed, respectively, 0.25% and 0.19% of GDP thus far.
With commitments worth 0.24% of GDP, Britain is not quite the champion of Ukraine it claims to be. Other European heavyweights—Germany , Italy and France —are miserly by comparison.
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