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What Happens if the West Abandons Ukraine?

The US has failed to deliver the $60 billion in aid it has promised to Ukraine, and the EU has likewise proved unable to fulfill its €50 billion ($54.8 billion) pledge. If this aid does not materialize soon, Ukraine could be lost to Russia, and the Kremlin’s revanchist agenda is unlikely to end there.

WARSAW/ODESA – Western leaders are well aware of the dangers of a Russian victory in Ukraine. “When dictators and autocrats are allowed to run roughshod in Europe,” US President Joe Biden recently observed, “the risk rises that the United States gets pulled in directly,” with the “consequences reverberat[ing] around the world.” Specifically, he noted previously, if Russian President Vladimir Putin attacks a NATO ally, “we’ll have something that we don’t seek and that we don’t have today: American troops fighting Russian troops.” Similarly, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg recently warned that “If Putin wins in Ukraine, there is real risk that his aggression will not end there.”

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