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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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!!
GOOD! Not the US’s fight. Get Britain and France to pony up! They did before!
“Half a league Onward!”
That eleven years in jail really put a hurt on.
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.
They have no article V protection.
Not in Ukraine they don’t.
And that’s why they won’t go.
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.
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