Macron suggested that other countries’ troops guarantee security in Ukraine, — Zelensky (English subtitles)
To do this, it is necessary to clearly determine when Ukraine will become a member of the EU and NATO. Only then could these be “very effective guarantees.”
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— Devana 🇺🇦 (@DevanaUkraine) December 9, 2024
He says this immediately after his meeting with Trump.
Not sure what that means.
I guess the obvious thing is that the meeting was also with Macron, who is a big supporter of this war for reasons no one has explained, and has wanted to deploy troops.
AP:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that he’s open to the potential deployment of Western troops in Ukraine to guarantee the country’s security as part of a broad effort to end the almost three-year war with Russia.
The deployment would be a step toward Ukraine joining NATO, Zelenskyy said in a post on his Telegram channel.
“But before that, we must have a clear understanding of when Ukraine will be in the European Union and when Ukraine will be in NATO,” Zelenskyy said.
This is like inviting a girl who is not really that into you on a date and then saying “but before I pick you up, we need to agree on when I will be receiving a handjob.”
His proposals tread a delicate diplomatic path amid international efforts to find a way of ending Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II at a time when Russia has gained an upper hand in the fighting.
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French President Emmanuel Macron floated the idea of Western troops on the ground in Ukraine last February. But it raised the same fears of escalation that have led Western leaders to place limits on weapons supplies and permissions for their use.
European military heavyweights Germany and Poland immediately said they wouldn’t send troops to Ukraine. Macron declined to provide details about which nations were considering sending troops, saying he preferred to maintain some “strategic ambiguity.”
Ukraine’s forces are weathering a monthslong onslaught by Russia centered on the eastern Donetsk region, where Kyiv’s defenses are creaking.
They’re more than creaking.
They are screeching.
In the final analysis, they will decide that the Ukraine war was a done deal as soon as Zelensky decided to invade Russia for no clear reason.
Begging NATO, again, is not really a meaningful strategy. If NATO was going to invade the Ukraine and fight Russia, they would have done so already, when there were still Ukrainian troops left to fight.