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The West is not ready to fight, and this is still Putin's "strongest card"
Europeans are not ready to defend their countries: what global polls have shown

Serhiy Korsunsky
diplomat and economist, former Ambassador of Ukraine to Türkiye and Japan
In April-May 2022, in connection with the beginning of Russia's full-scale aggression against Ukraine, WIN (Worldwide Independent Network of Market Research, a research institute based in Milan) conducted a large-scale study in 24 countries in Europe, America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia on attitudes toward war. The results of the study contain many interesting details, but one of the conclusions is particularly noteworthy .
To the question "If there is a war that affects your country, will you defend it?" the answers were distributed as follows.
The top five countries that responded positively were Pakistan (96%), Turkey (85%), Peru (74%), the Palestinian National Authority (62%), and Colombia (62%) .
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