Posted on 02/19/2025 1:06:15 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Britain and France are leading efforts to create a European “reassurance force” intended to prevent future Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities, ports and critical infrastructure in the event of a US-brokered peace deal.
The proposal, western officials said, would involve less than 30,000 troops and would be likely to be concentrated on air and maritime defence. Ground forces would be minimal and not deployed near the frontline in the east of Ukraine.
Among the aims of the force would be to ensure the safe reopening of Ukraine’s airspace to commercial flights and to maintain the security of seaborne trade over the Black Sea, critical to the country’s food and grain exports.
Ukraine’s electricity and other utilities have been repeatedly bombed by Russia during the near-three-year war, and maintaining their integrity is also deemed critical to the recovery of the country if the conflict is brought to a close.
It is unclear whether a force that is relatively small in number would be supported by Ukraine, whose president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has called for the creation of a deterrence force 100,000-150,000 strong, which involves the US.
However, last week, Pete Hegseth, the new US secretary of defence, said “there will not be US troops deployed to Ukraine”.
The size of European militaries remains modest, meaning that any postwar security effort would have to be in the low tens of thousands and focused on areas of technological superiority.
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This is what Trump wants, for the Euros to handle it. We’ll see if they step up.
Will it start WW3?
Would beinteresting to see a hypersonic missle hit London or Paris.
I think frankly, it’s just bluster on the Euros part.
***Britain and France***
About time! They had experience in that area before!
“Half a league onward!”
That's more descriptive than they are letting on.
Starmer and Macron. Kier and the Queer.
The goal of France and UK is to only send their white men in Ukraine in hopes that they can cause a false flag and force Russia to kill them so they can then import even more 3rd world men into western europe
Think of them as “emotional support animals.”
If they did it,we should withdraw from NATO.
terminate all payments to them.
Who gives a $hit? We will not fight WWIII for these morons, especially since they never learned the lessons of two past World Wars. Third time is not the charm.
Putin and Lavrov have already nixed this. Starmer and Macron know it, and this is nothing more than an attempt to torpedo negotiations.
They better get the message that we’re not getting involved if some of those troops starting coming back to their countries in body bags.
They better get the message that we’re not getting involved if some of those troops starting coming back to their countries in body bags.
“… The proposal, western officials said, would involve less than 30,000 troops and would be likely to be concentrated on air and maritime defence….”
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Maritime “defense”? I suspect the Russians are weary of Russia’s ships, sea lanes and port facilities being under constant attack with SUPPORT FROM WESTERN FORCES. I suspect Russia won’t feel secure until they’ve taken Odessa and all of Southern Ukraine that borders the Black Sea.
Time will tell.
That’s like having a golden retriever guarding the hen house from 30 miles away.
Russia already said no way. The whole war was over nazi depredations in the east, and Ukraine not being in NATO.
Flooding in French and Brit military units with security defense pacts is NATO by another name.
Lavrov already clearly said they would not accept NATO by any other name.
And we really aren’t offering the Russians anything in return, so they have no reason to end the war and basically fulfill the NATO EU goal.
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