The European Union proposes deepening defense industry ties with Ukraine

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1. could the EU not have gotten the memo like two years sooner

   >EU lawmakers are due to hold a vote on a 1.5-billion euro ($1.7 billion) program, with 300 million euros ($345 million) slated for the Ukraine Support Instrument.

   >Ukraine’s defense industry “needs us,” EU Defense Commissioner Andrius Kubilius told EU lawmakers in Strasbourg […]. “But we need Ukraine’s defense innovations even more,”

   >He said that allowing Ukrainian access to the EU’s Defence Investment Program “makes it possible to procure defense equipment in, with and for Ukraine.”

   >[…] Kubilius said that EU-based defense companies can apply for […] financial incentives to fund so-called European defense projects of common interest that “no member state can ever build alone, but that will protect the whole of Europe[.]”

   >Permitting Ukrainian companies to participate in these projects “allows us to inject Ukrainian military innovation in the European defense industry,” he said.

2. Well, Ukraine is probably the country in the world with the most experience into fighting a conventional war

   Especially using weapons unfamiliar to the Europeans like drones

   They are also experts at keeping cost downs, something that outside France and Italy, european country do not know how

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