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Europe quietly works on a plan to send troops to Ukraine for post-war security
The Associated Press via Yahoo ^ | February 15th, 2025 | LORNE COOK

Posted on 02/15/2025 1:11:05 PM PST by Mariner

BRUSSELS (AP) — Increasingly alarmed that U.S. security priorities lie elsewhere, a group of European countries has been quietly working on a plan to send troops into Ukraine to help enforce any future peace settlement with Russia.

Britain and France are at the forefront of the effort, though details remain scarce. The countries involved in the discussions are reluctant to tip their hand and give Russian President Vladimir Putin an edge should he agree to negotiate an end to the war he launched three years ago.

What is clear is that Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy needs a guarantee that his country's security will be assured until peace takes hold. The best protection would be the NATO membership that Ukraine has long been promised, but the U.S. has taken that option off the table.

“I won’t get into the particular capabilities, but I do accept that if there is peace then there needs to be some sort of security guarantee for Ukraine and the U.K. will play its part in that,” British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said in cautious remarks on Thursday.

The Europeans began exploring what kind of force might be needed about a year ago, but the sense of urgency has grown amid concern that U.S. President Donald Trump might go over their heads, and possibly even Ukraine’s, to clinch a deal with Putin.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 3yearslate; andamagicunicorn; dearleaderzelvis; europe; globohomo; nato; troops; ukraine; yookland; yurp; yurpeons
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To: Responsibility2nd
"Europe quietly works on a plan to send troops to Ukraine for post-war security"

If any of those countries are NATO members, they haven't even complied with the agreement they made in 2014 to allocate 2% of their GDP to their own defense, and they're going to supply troops to Ukraine? Har de Har Har!!

21 posted on 02/15/2025 2:36:17 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Mariner

GOOD! Not the US’s fight. Get Britain and France to pony up! They did before!
“Half a league Onward!”


22 posted on 02/15/2025 2:48:19 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: delta7

That eleven years in jail really put a hurt on.


23 posted on 02/15/2025 3:11:15 PM PST by TexasGator (1!'/111'r/11111.111''!11)
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To: rxh4n1
German troops going back to Ukraine? I’m sure that will go over well.

Why wouldn't it? Nazi Collaborator Stepen Bandera is Ukraine's modern-day founding father and the neo-Nazi Azov battalion are part of the Ukrainian military.

24 posted on 02/15/2025 3:34:12 PM PST by Kazan
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To: Mariner

They have no article V protection.


25 posted on 02/15/2025 4:01:47 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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To: DesertRhino

Not in Ukraine they don’t.

And that’s why they won’t go.


26 posted on 02/15/2025 4:11:45 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

There are less than 75,000 regular full-time personnel in the British Army. They can all be seated in a football stadium. Alternatively, the whole British Army can be sent to Ukraine to strike fear into the Russian Army.


27 posted on 02/15/2025 7:24:43 PM PST by woodpusher
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