Stop the Delays: Europe Must Arm Ukraine to Win — Not Just Survive

Ukraine is the only one fighting for western fabled values.

For over three years, Ukraine has fought tooth and nail to defend it's sovereignty, democracy, and freedom against Russia's brutal invasion. It has done so with incredible resilience and bravery, often with fewer resources and less support than promised. While the European Union has offered aid and expressed solidarity, it continues to fall into the same dangerous pattern: delay, debate, and under-deliver.

This has to stop!

Despite the clear stakes, European nations remain locked in bureaucratic slow motion. The delivery of essential military equipment is constantly staggered, scaled down, or stuck in political limbo. Promised packages take months to arrive, if they arrive at all. The result? Ukrainian soldiers face down Russian forces without the full backing of the continent whose values they are defending on the front lines.

Let’s be clear: this isn’t about charity. It’s about strategic responsibility and moral clarity. Ukraine is not just fighting for itself. It is holding the line for Europe, for the rules-based order, for democratic sovereignty, and for peace on the continent. A Ukrainian defeat would embolden autocrats far beyond Russia’s borders and send a message that Western commitments are as fragile as the paper they're signed on.

And yet, here we are, watching history repeat itself. For three years, European hesitation has prolonged this war. Incremental aid, half-measures, and debates over escalation have only dragged out the suffering, rather than preventing it. Expecting a different outcome from the same hesitant approach isn’t caution, it’s lunacy.

There’s a stark lesson Europe should have already learned. During World War II, European nations resisted Nazi occupation because freedom was worth fighting for. Ukrainians today are doing the same, yet many of those who proudly celebrate their own liberation anniversaries now hesitate to give Ukrainians the tools to achieve theirs. That is not only hypocritical, it’s deeply unjust.

The EU cannot afford to let fatigue or fear paralyze it. This is the moment to act decisively. $40 billion in military aid isn’t an expense, it’s an investment in European security, in deterrence, and in the future of a free Ukraine. The weapons should be modern, fast-tracked, and sent now, not in six months, not when it's politically convenient, but today.

Delaying further only plays into Russia’s hands. It gives Putin time to regroup, rearm, and grind forward. The path to peace does not run through more caution, it runs through Ukrainian victory.

Let’s stop pretending that slow support is responsible diplomacy. It's appeasement by another name. And we know where appeasement leads.

The time for hesitance is over. Ukraine deserves the freedom Europeans once fought and died for. It’s time Europe matches its words with weapons, Arm Ukraine to Win, and gives Ukraine freedom we all enjoy.