Faced with the barrage of daily news about the war in Ukraine, today it seems that they want to throw down the black blanket. About a conflict that consumes resources in astronomical quantities, while hiding the losses of human beings, with hundreds of thousands of young soldiers.
The Economist, in its issue of November 1, offers a figure that estimates what the conflict has cost since it began, in its second phase, three years ago: 360 billion dollars. And so that readers have an idea of what that represents, let us remember here that Spain’s GDP in 2024 stood at 1.7 trillion. That is, since 2023, the equivalent of 21.5 percent of Spanish GDP has been lost in the conflict, which represents 56.1 percent of our State budget for the same year.
There will be no possible compensation for this immense expense with the loan that the European Union (EU) could guarantee, with the $160 billion of Russian assets frozen abroad. Neither the EU countries agree, nor does the Clearing House that operates in the EU for these purposes approve it.
And looking to the future, it has been calculated, also by The Economist, that a four-year commitment to maintain EU aid to Ukraine at its current levels would amount to $390 billion. Another large million of weapons for death, benefiting only the United States. When there is so much insufficient resources to achieve a minimum standard of living for the majority of the world population of 8.2 billion Earthlings.
The above figures show the nonsense that we are all committing, and especially the European Community, without the European Commission justifying it, which has become a forum for military waste and death.