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Culture War Roundup for the week of January 16, 2023

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Maybe someone researched this already - can you recommend decent way to donate funds to Ukrainians?

https://u24.gov.ua/

While not something I believe is useful because the fate of this war is clear, one could buy and ship military stuff directly, for example https://old.reddit.com/r/TankPorn/comments/sl7dir/did_you_know_that_you_can_order_a_6x6_apc_by/

https://old.reddit.com/r/TankPorn/comments/sl7dir/did_you_know_that_you_can_order_a_6x6_apc_by/hvq7hck/

There are more retired but actually well armored tanks than Ukraine ever owned, Italy alone has more than 600 to give https://qr.ae/prCVC3

In fact there are more retired tanks than there are regular tanks that the EU or even China currently own.

One can collaborativelly constitute an army maximally cheaply, however as usual real effective altruists mostly do not exists.

https://bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/natsionalniy-bank-vidkriv-spetsrahunok-dlya-zboru-koshtiv-na-potrebi-armiyi

Or what 5HM said, go help some refugees directly. House them, help them find jobs etc.

if you figure something good out, let me know, please

This is probably more suited for the small questions thread but if I were trying to donate to Ukraine as a state I'd use their crypto address as the cleanest solution. That link seems correct but obviously if you're sending any real amount of money please do some more due diligence and make absolute sure it's not a scam wallet. Or do you mean refugees?

I would add, it is probably more efficient to donate to local groups to you that help with refugees, or even better to volunteer with them if possible, than it is to send money abroad into an endless pit of no-accountability. Your money is much more likely to end up helping someone in that case, and I'd imagine most Ukrainians would be happy to know that refugees abroad are taken care of.

Hell, probably the biggest help I can give Ukraine is work overtime and pay more taxes. At the end of the day the private donations to buy one Bayraktar or whatever are less important than the billions my government is pissing away, they're valuable as public symbols that pressure governments into participating.

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