Crazy how 10 years ago AMD was a penny stock, around $4 vs Intel's $27, and now they're $135 and $20 respectively. I think abt this more than I should because I've always been team red and almost bought it. But now it's too gambly to buy any
It's a bit murkier than this. The EU will first and foremost give this money to itself:
Under the proposal, 90% of the funds would be initially allocated to the European Peace Facility (EPF), the bloc’s mechanism to reimburse weapons delivered to Kyiv, and then to the newly created Ukraine Assistance Fund (UAF). [ x ]
From this language, it's not even clear whether this money will go to procure new weapons or to reimburse themselves for the already delivered ones. It can go either way or be some mixture of both.
I doubt this was re the Baltic states specifically. Their politicians say many unhinged things, but if the push came to shove, these countries would fold very quickly under conventional weaponry, and they're too close to Russia to use nukes anyway. UK, Denmark, the Netherlands, on the other hand, that's where the politicians have been particularly dense.. But it's also just rhetoric, imo, even if F-16s come to Ukraine, they'd be too few and low impact to start a WW3.
President Joe Biden has given Ukraine permission to use American-supplied weapons to strike targets in Russia, but only near the Kharkiv region, US officials say.
Representatives of NATO countries, especially in Europe, especially in small countries - they should be aware of what they are playing with. They have to remember that these are usually states with a small territory and very dense population. And this is a factor that they should keep in mind before they talk about striking deep into Russian territory. [ x ]
Crazy how 10 years ago AMD was a penny stock, around $4 vs Intel's $27, and now they're $135 and $20 respectively. I think abt this more than I should because I've always been team red and almost bought it. But now it's too gambly to buy any