Australia defends drop in aid to Ukraine. This is just the first to say so officially.

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1. More on this subject from other reputable sources:

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   – Guardian (C+): [Plans for new fighter jets on back burner despite Labor’s $50bn boost to defence spending ](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/17/labor-government-defence-military-budget-increase-spending-adf)
   – Euronews (B+): [Europe's defence dilemma: How to weigh up the costs and benefits](https://www.euronews.com/business/2024/04/17/europes-defence-dilemma-the-difficulties-of-weighing-up-the-costs-and-benefits)
   – Age (B): [‘Risk of conflict increasing’: Defence to get extra $50b over next decade](https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/warships-drones-missiles-defence-to-get-extra-50b-over-next-decade-20240417-p5fkig.html)
   – Sydney Morning Herald (B+): [‘Risk of conflict increasing’: Defence to get extra $50b over next decade](https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/warships-drones-missiles-defence-to-get-extra-50b-over-next-decade-20240417-p5fkig.html)

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2. What the hell are we doing. We should be pumping as much in as we can.

3. Ukraine war, and the lack of Western support will go down in history as the ultimate failure of democracy and the beginning of the end of Western dominance. We lost.

4. In all fairness, Australia is the absolute least connected ally to this conflict. While I’ve always been thankful to them and frankly, in awe of what they’ve provided, I’ve also asked myself why. We need to be switching our European economies for wartime and sending the stuff east now, while it’s still not our soldiers dying, because otherwise later it’ll be the same situation but in our own borders with our own troops.

   (To be clear, I’m not advising for sacrificing Ukrainian troops, that’s just the reality of the moment – I am for sending our own before Russia can build bigger)

5. Australia may be convinced to step up to provide more weapons and assistance to Ukraine.

6. The pitiful support will have ramifications for decades to come…the West is allowing Russian propaganda to flourish