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Pretty sure they’re joking based on their comment history

To cover the ten most traded currencies and ten most populous countries, the following are close in size to the coin in the post:

Australian dollar: 5 cent
Bangladeshi taka: 5 poisha
Brazilian real: slightly smaller than the 10 centavo
British pound: Between the 1 penny and the 5 pence
Canadian dollar: 1 cent
Chinese renminbi: 1 jiao
Euro: 2 cent
Hong Kong dollar: 20 cent
Indian rupee: 50 paise
Indonesian rupiah: slightly smaller than the 50 rupiah
Japanese yen: slightly smaller than the 1 yen
Mexican peso: 20 centavo
Nigerian naira: smaller than all current coins. About three-quarters the diameter of the 2 naira
Pakistani rupee: 5 rupee
Russian ruble: between the 5 kopeck and 50 kopeck
Singaporean dollar: 10 cent
Swiss franc: 10 centime

Russia doesn’t have anywhere near “orders of magnitude” more fighting men. That’s 100 times more at minimum. Russia’s population is about four times that of Ukraine, and their demographic pyramids are similar.

Russia’s actual limitations are not in the raw numbers of people, though. It’s in public support. Russia doesn’t have the base of domestic support that Ukraine naturally has by defending against an invader.

Russia is also absolutely not unbeatable. It has lost plenty of wars. 1st Chechen war, Afghanistan, World War One, Crimea.

French cares not for your petty expectations of consistency

“Roulette” is French for “little wheel”, so I suppose this is Russian roue

If you fuck off home and pay Ukraine for the damage you’ve done then we’ll give it back.

Including, of course, Biden’s predecessor and electoral opponent. Who apparently wants to bar Gazan refugees from entry and conduct ideological screening of immigrants to make sure they’re pro-Israel

Mate come on. A person willing to protest the Russian government in Russia does not deserve your vitriol. Even if every Russian except Allero supported everything Putin did, it wouldn’t make Allero guilty by association

There are extremely good reasons for the DNC to go with Biden: he has already beaten Trump once, and incumbents tend to do well

The top one is his first wife and the kids from that marriage, the bottom one is his third wife and the kids from that marriage

There’s also the Isle of Man, but it’s an unusual case in its own right

In Scotland, supermarkets are not allowed to sell alcohol from 10pm to 10am. Every time I worked in a supermarket, there would inevitably be a queue of old ladies at the tills at 09:57am waiting for the exact moment that they were allowed to purchase their gin or vodka

Brave men. I can only wish them luck

9:3π/2 rad

Ahh fair enough, misinterpretation of your edit on my part then. I’m afraid whoever did downvote you isn’t on kbin, so you won’t see anything

I haven’t downvoted any of your comments. I’m on kbin, so you can check for yourself here https://kbin.social/m/world@lemmy.world/t/696813/EU-seeks-to-raise-15-billion-euros-for-Ukraine-from/comment/4073577/votes/down

let’s not get in a pissing match or dick-measuring contest about who’s ponying up more

literally your entire presence in this thread is dick-measuring about how europe isn’t doing enough

I get you don’t want to discuss that because its a problem with regard to your thesis

No, it isn’t. My point is that Europe is giving more to Ukraine and that while the European NATO members should meet the 2% commitment, doing so would not actually help Ukraine. If you want to have a general discussion about Europe’s defence capacity then sure, have fun somewhere, but I had figured that since you commented on an article you were commenting about the article

What does this have to do with the article?

And I’m saying that Europe is already doing that. Europe is not the backup because most of Ukraine’s aid is coming from Europe. America is a very large contributor and therefore important, and it has the biggest military industry to turn towards production, but to say that Europe “needs to stop playing poor and open their very dusty checkbooks” when Europe is already significantly outspending Ukraine’s other supporters only makes sense if you’ve just never looked at the actual numbers

I didn’t side-step the bit about individual domestic military spending commitments because I’m not looking to argue that part. 10 European NATO nations are meeting it this year. The others should do what they said they’d do, but it wouldn’t actually help Ukraine unless we’re all sending actual troops in.

The USA’s GDP is larger than the EU’s, but the EU has given more to Ukraine than America has. That’s without including contributions by individual nations in the EU or contributions by non-EU European countries like Norway and the UK either.