9. Rebuilding Ukraine’s defense—or outsourcing it? The Rafale deal hints at structural dependence with costs that won’t end at the battlefield.An agreement for 100 Rafale fighter jets marks a structural change in Ukraine’s military architecture. It replaces Ukraine’s dependency on Russian-designed systems with a new dependency on French industry, primarily Dassault Aviation. The EU support for Ukraine began as a moral imperative characterized by rapid solidarity. But this year, it had changed into a financial […]

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