{"id":206092,"date":"2025-11-17T18:12:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/11\/17\/as-us-engagement-wanes-is-western-military-support-for-ukraine-now-primarily-a-european-effort\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T18:12:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:12:44","slug":"as-us-engagement-wanes-is-western-military-support-for-ukraine-now-primarily-a-european-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/11\/17\/as-us-engagement-wanes-is-western-military-support-for-ukraine-now-primarily-a-european-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"As US engagement wanes, is Western military support for Ukraine now primarily a European effort?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The France-Ukraine deal around the Rafale jets is more than a mere arms deal, explains Michael Benhamou, Director at OPEWI, Europe\u2019s War Institute. It\u2019s a formal declaration of strategic alignment. This is a signal that France and Ukraine are charting a course together for the coming decade. The 100 Rafales deal will &lsquo;lock the relationship between France and Ukraine for at least a decade.\u00a0\u00bb And while the commitments were signed today, their full effect: the training, the battlefield integration, the operational readiness, will be years in the making. This will also be a prime opportunity for France to show all of Europe renewed life.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The France-Ukraine deal around the Rafale jets is more than a mere arms deal, explains Michael Benhamou, Director at OPEWI, Europe\u2019s War Institute. It\u2019s a formal declaration of strategic alignment. This is a signal that France and Ukraine are charting a course together for the coming decade. The 100 Rafales deal will &lsquo;lock the relationship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-206092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-news","tag-monde","tag-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}