The conceptual history of solidarity is intellectual¬ly incapacitating for any argument in support of a ‘human-centric’ form of resource sharing on egalitarian terms. In particular, we argue that it is histor¬ically wrong-headed to analyze the reception and protection of Ukrainians through the lens of solidarity alone. Rather, we suggest, the temporary pro-tection of Ukrainians is better understood as the outflow of an overarching alliance logic, embracing the totality of EU policies in this area, with the Syrian outflows as much as that of the Ukrainians