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Where will all the fighters come from then? This is just a transfer of wealth to arms manufacturers, or perhaps a way to keeping Ukrainian people in debt after the war.
Unless you want to start ww3 by sending nato troops.
https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/02/26/ukraine-is-scrambling-to-find-fresh-fighters
Endless war, fuck the poor
I'm loathe to praise Starmer for anything but he does deserve credit for this. Hopefully he doesn't then turn around and suck up even more to Trump
Needed after the US so publicly ended its "leader of the free world" circle-jerk. Ukraine needs to resist long enough, and Europe needs to rearm fast enough, to mitigate disaster. This and other financial support will buy some of that time.
US is is getting gutted from within. We should be helping obviously but at this point if EU can't do this for next 4 years, Ukraine is fucked.
They will fight until they can't and then they will need to resettled within EU anyway...
2020s a decade when the world figured how people with out a homeland get generated IRL
Some of the US contribution to the Ukraine war effort was in the form of older equipment or credits to purchase arms from US weapons sellers (i.e. the funds just recycled back to the US).
Wondering why these UK funds are in the form of 'loans?'
It sounds like these may be to help Ukraine domestically manufacture their own arms.
Good stuff. We collectively weren't doing enough before, and now a big chunk of the "we" has been lost.