Four-point plan to give Kyiv more than guns

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Saturday May 18 2024

It's guns-before-butter time again. Global defence spending rose last year to reach a hefty $2.4 trillion. There's rhetoric to match, about shifting to a prewar rather than postwar era, and armies on the move in eastern Europe and the Middle East.

The Portuguese essayist Bruno Macaes wasn't just showing off when he argued the other day that a world war is simply a war where no one stands outside the fray. "In that sense," he concluded, "maybe we are already in a world war."

The Ukrainians would agree. The latest surge in aid from the West, including the much-delayed $61 billion military package from the US, gives them hope that their struggle against Russia is being seen at last as part of a wider