Why are the Europeans organizing a “coalition of the willing” to send peacekeeping troops to Ukraine when the Russians have repeatedly stated that they will never accept any western peacekeeping troops in Ukraine? Are the Europeans just being delusional, or is something else going on here? When I learned that French President Emmanuel Macron had announced that 26 western countries had agreed to deploy troops to Ukraine immediately after a ceasefire deal is reached, I was deeply alarmed…
Twenty-six Western allies have formally committed to deploying troops “by land, sea or air” to Ukraine the day after a ceasefire deal is agreed, Emmanuel Macron has said.
The French leader made the announcement after a summit of 35 countries dubbed the “Coalition of the Willing”.
Macron and other western leaders know that Russia will never agree to any deal that would allow western troops to enter Ukraine.
On Wednesday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova reaffirmed this yet again…
Russia once again rejected the idea of foreign troops being stationed in Ukraine. This comes as European leaders met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and held a joint call with President Donald Trump.
On Thursday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said any plan to have foreign military personnel deployed to Ukraine would be “unacceptable” to Moscow, Reuters reported.
“Russia is not going to discuss a foreign intervention in Ukraine in any form or format that is fundamentally unacceptable and undermines any security,” Zakharova told reporters, according to Reuters.
So why are the Europeans preparing to do something that Russia will never agree to?
Well, for one thing western leaders do not believe that the Russians should have any say in the matter. The head of NATO made that exceedingly clear on Thursday…
Nato chief Mark Rutte said on Thursday that Russia had no veto on Western troops being deployed to Ukraine: “Why are we interested in what Russia thinks about troops in Ukraine? It’s a sovereign country. It’s not for them to decide.”
There is no doubt in my mind that the Europeans plan to send troops to Ukraine once the war is over whether Russia likes it or not.