“Full package”: French MEP calls on West to completely change strategy of arming Ukraine

The West needs to change its thinking and strategy regarding military assistance to Ukraine as the step-by-step strategy is wrong, costing thousands of lives.

This was stated in a commentary to Guildhall by MEP Raphael Glucksmann (France), chair of the special committee on foreign interference, including disinformation, Ukrinform reports.

“A step-by-step military aid strategy that the West chose, to provide Ukraine with weaponry peace by peace, is totally wrong. This strategy has already had an indescribable toll on human lives. Its understandable ground that we don’t send our soldiers to fight, but we have to send everything else that is needed to make Ukraine able to win this war. We have to stand up with a proactive position, aviation, long-range missiles, air defense systems, absolutely everything that Ukraine needs,” Glucksmann believes.

“Our step-by-step strategy, the strategy of incrementalism was a huge mistake. What we have to do is a ‘full package’ for Ukraine. We have to assess the situation, to understand what Ukraine needs and, even without Zelensky’s visits, to allow and to provide all needed weaponry. The only underlying and admissible strategic objective for this is Russia’s military defeat. Yes, you’ll get aviation, but I say it’s too late and too little,” the lawmaker said.

He went on to reflect that it’s not about jets and long-range missiles only, “it’s about the change of the mindset.”

“It’s not like Ukraine fighting for itself and we’re helping, it’s Ukraine fighting for us and we’re helping ourselves. That is the truthful and honest attitude we should have. If our strategic objective is Russia's defeat, then it's not Ukraine who should ask certain types of weapons piece by piece. Full package, all that’s needed, proactively from our side,” the MEP stressed.

Recall that earlier in the German Bundestag, a deputy with the Free Democratic Party (FDP) coalition Markus Faber called on the German government to allow Poland and Slovakia to transfer East German MiGs to Ukraine.