Should the EU increase military aid to Ukraine?
19 votes|10 arguments|0 source
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A Ukrainian defeat would embolden authoritarian expansion at Europe's border. Sustained aid is the cheapest path to lasting security. @@yes_1
Compared to long-term defence spending if Russia wins, sustaining Ukraine is by far the cheaper option for EU taxpayers. @@yes_2
Conditional aid pegged to reforms also accelerates Ukraine's EU accession path — strategic and political win combined. @@yes_3
Polling consistently shows a majority of citizens support moving forward — democratic legitimacy is on this side. @@yes_4
Pilot programs in comparable jurisdictions have produced encouraging results that opponents tend to downplay or ignore. @@yes_5
32%6
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Pouring more weapons in prolongs the war without a clear endgame. Europe should push harder for negotiations and a ceasefire. @@no_1
Europe's own munitions stocks are dangerously low. Production capacity, not transfer volume, is the real bottleneck. @@no_2
Without a clear political objective — restored 1991 borders? frozen conflict? — endless arms shipments risk a forever war. @@no_3
Once enacted, this kind of policy is politically very hard to reverse — that asymmetry alone calls for caution. @@no_4
The evidence base remains contested, and headline studies often haven't been independently replicated at scale. @@no_5
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