I immediately envisioned Ukraine accepting freshly folded and warm clothes straight out of a Lithuanian dryer.

Lithuania gives the fucks that count! 🇱🇹

I know the Baltic states have a lot to lose if Russia succeeds in Ukraine, but it is so goddamned heart warming to hear about the constant out pouring of support these guys have been giving to the Ukrainian people.

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And being handed out by sweet old grandma's.

Power generators and warm clothes are what will ultimately make or break this war. Sure, having weapons and equipment are a huge help, but if the person operating them is miserable, demoralized, and possibly hypothermic; that equipment is probably going to waste. Quality of life support is a massive boost that Ukraine needs, and most countries can provide it

Yay this LT American is proud of my GGDad’s country’s. GGD left LT in 1898. Why? Effing Russians.

They can’t buy it with all the money the usa gave them?

https://www.cfr.org/article/how-much-aid-has-us-sent-ukraine-here-are-six-charts

If you head to r/Ukraine there's a list of vetted charities one being a program that provides stoves to those trying to survive the cold. If you're not comfortable donating to the military, there are plenty of non combat programs to support.

A lot of people see it as the Baltics being pragmatic, which it most definitely partially is, but it is mostly they all just really hate Russia and have a lot of empathy for other former Bloc countries

Already spent on expensive eggs.

My family left in the 1930’s. They chose to disappear instead of join the communist party. I still remember the immediate celebration at my grandparents house when news came out of Lithuanian independence.

I’ve never been as proud of my ancestors willingness to resist than I am now.

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What part of

> > If you're not comfortable donating to the military

doesn't compute for you?

They probably are already

> mostly they all just really hate Russia and have a lot of empathy for other former Bloc countries

Am from the Baltics. Can confirm.

I thought my Lithuanian Grandpa was being overdramatic in 2014 when he said Crimea was just the beginning of Putin trying to rebuild the ussr, I should have taken him more seriously.

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It's a russian victory when a family that couldn't leave freezes to death in the cold. Every Ukrainian family you keep alive is a victory against the russians. Personally I choose to support the civilians but very much support the military in my heart.

Always assume worst about russia and then you will be only somewhat surprised when they still exceed expectations.

USA gave money? Source?

Thank you Lietuva, you are my best friend,

You are the peacekeeper, you are the legend.

Lithuania fucks! (So do the rest of the Baltic states that hate Russia and support Ukraine)

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My maternal grandmother and her family left Lithuania in 1940 when the USSR annexed the Baltic states and began deporting undesirables.

My grandmother's family wasn't forcibly deported, but they saw the writing on the wall and thankfully had family in the US to take them in.

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Lithuania, Poland the Baltic staying based.

Really great allies to have in thrse times. Brothers to Ukraine. They know what I'd at stake. I see a very beneficial and warm alliance forming in the near future, not just NATO. Ukraine will never have to worry ever again about Russia after this war. I hope.

I saw the barricades in Kyiv. They looked the same as the ones I saw in Vilnius, 1991.

I’m sure, a lot has changed in the last 30 years, but Russian tyranny remains very much the same

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Hey that’s the country that makes funny mushrooms , my newest favorite snack product.

I donated $50 to a Ukranian non-military charity. Why? Because I served 12 years in the US Army with 4 deployments under my belt, and I know the things that happen off-camera in a time of war, and I don't want to directly fund any part of that.

Russian tanks haven't changed at all.

True. If the stakes weren’t so terrible I’d say it’d be a fascinating demonstration watching them go up against Leopards and Abrams

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Must suck to be putin and watch literally the whole world come to help your victim defeat you. Good for him.

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Why is that building inverted Ukraine flag?

Awww that sounds nice and appreciated even more.

We may have already seen this movie in 1991

“Careful with the zippers, sweeties. They’re still hot!”

Very good shit that matters on the ground. Serious hat tip to Lithuania!

Is this photo Ukraine or Lithuania?

https://www.usaid.gov/news-information/press-releases/nov-22-2022-united-states-contributes-45-billion-support-government-ukraine#:~:text=The%20United%20States%20Contributes%20%244.5,U.S.%20Agency%20for%20International%20Development

https://www.cfr.org/article/how-much-aid-has-us-sent-ukraine-here-are-six-charts

Doesn’t really matter when you clearly haven’t been watching the mass amounts they have been giving to Ukrainian but okay bud keep thinking they have them nothing, fucking weirdo

I’ll second this! I had some funny mushrooms from a store in California. Very yummy

You’ve started a beautiful line of conversation here. Huzzah to u/stoniruca !!!

The part where Russia runs a bunch of online disinformation campaigns?

nice of them.

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Absolutely love this! I’m part Lithuanian and Lithuania holds a special place in my heart. They’re response to Ukraine has been incredible

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Lithuanians are a brave people who know how it is to live under fascist Russia.

You know, I bet many of the Ukrainian soldiers would be happy to stand in queue to receive warm clothing out of the dryer from a Lithuanian grandma about now.

Great! It's a big country, it needs all it can get to not collapse under pressure of war.

It warm, nice and cozy in a Challenger 2 MBT... We could each soldier one

Cheers, thanks

My parents and grandparents left during the second world war. Canadians marched into my dad's town and helped families migrate west just the day before my dad and his parents were scheduled on a one way train to Siberia. Fucking Russians.

Russia wouldn't strike a NATO country directly. Putin knows his time would end the very next day if Z moved over the Lithuanian border.

Just as an aside; international aid does not directly get deposited into a country. The political framework of comparison between how sovereign states work and how individual households is both wrong and harmful. Most often when a state gives aid the amount is spent on the giving states industry and the goods are then given to the recipient of the aid. This is done for a myriad of reasons. Most foremost the fact that often the state receiving aid is in crisis and may not have the resources or the capacity to produce the things they need. When a state such as in this case, Lithuania, gives a product and not just a value they often have the supply chain optimization to achieve the desired outcome and the cost may vary. This is in comparison to other states where the value in aid is stated as either it is a cap on the amount or that the aid may have varying outcomes it is targeting.

But to truly understand why Ukraine is still in need despite the out poring of support it is a fundamental problem of armed conflict in residential areas. It costs a lot to wage an invasion. Russia has oil money to pay for that. This was the purpose of the tariffs and the accounts being frozen. Unfortunately both China and India continue to need Russian oil and as such are funding the invasion. The complexity is that it costs even more to defend yourself. And the easiest way for an invading enemy to hurt another state is to disrupt its trade. Thus making it both need to spend money to defend itself and not having the tax base to support that spending.

The tl;dr is government finance and individual finance are two very different things. That and aid is a lot more complicated than just I will give you x amount of monies.