you had to sell up in UK to pay 4 it all
Course there's other reasons, namely you sort of retired and moved on, but if you were 25 yrs younger you'd be mighty pi%%ed at all that tax money going into Ukraine when hey your country and the rest of EUrope and USA 'aren't actually doing anything.'
How much money to date gone to Ukraine, and how much in future promised to go into Ukraine, not just UK, all of NATO. Must be getting on for half a trillion quid/dollars/euros chose any denomination you like. 500 billion since 2022.
SO much money you'd have maybe not spent 104k on an Aston, instead deciding to put the money toward the inflated business rates, employee insurance, corporation tax, income tax!
You won't find any hard cash figure here, no of course not, what was I thinking, of course not. DOn't ask just pay your taxes for BlackRock etc and shut up, it's perfect socialism capitalism in action. WE pay for the sewers, roads, bridges, wars, etc. and then it's 'all sold off'
https://www.nato.int/en/what-we-do/partnerships-and-cooperation/natos-support-for-ukraine
But when you actually think about it, the total gearing of whole economies to support Ukraine, the taking in of refugees, and you start from 2014 to 2026, in those 12 years it's likely .. ok let's call it a third of a trillion for cash., because even AI search gives a figure of 'at least' 80 billion ... so let's just call it 100billion (almost 1/10th of a trillion) from 2022 to early 2023.
Then, and NOT INCLUDING the USA, Ukraine has received a further 130billion - disappearing into the black hole of defending 'sovereignty' so there's 250 billion right there, and that's WITHOUT THE USA!
So I take back my, ok let's call it a third of a trillion for cash, and actually raise my half a trillion to something like near enough a trillion in 2014 onwards black ops, and from the 2022 'special military operation' outbreak.
A trillion dollars. The only thing Ukraine is providing is meat.
'Since 2022, NATO Allies have committed at least $80 billion in military, humanitarian, and financial aid to Ukraine. This figure, tracked by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, includes contributions from the 30 member states as of early 2023, with the United Kingdom and Germany being the second and third highest contributors among NATO members after the United States.
More recent data indicates that European allies as a whole, including EU institutions and non-NATO partners like Sweden and Australia, have pledged over $130 billion in security assistance through March 2026. Additionally, NATO coordinates specific support mechanisms such as the Comprehensive Assistance Package (CAP), through which allies have pledged over €1.4 billion for non-lethal aid, and the Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List (PURL), which has seen over $4 billion in critical equipment and munitions pledged since August 2025.'
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