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EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Ukraine president Volodomyr Zelensky: the EuU and member states actually contributed slightly more to Ukraine than the US did last year (Photo: European Commission)

Europe is giving more aid to Ukraine than you think

Europeans need to pull their weight in Ukraine. They should pony up more funds. And most definitely, they should not fall behind the United States. Such has been the chorus since the start of the war, primarily on the other side of the Atlantic.

The problem is: the argument isn't borne out by the facts, at least not anymore.

Let's look at the numbers: the European Union and its member states actually

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EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Ukraine president Volodomyr Zelensky: the EuU and member states actually contributed slightly more to Ukraine than the US did last year (Photo: European Commission)

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Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff is a distinguished scholar, James H. Sallembien a research assistant at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

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