- Some European NATO members are talking about putting their troops in Ukraine.
- Estonia’s PM said allies shouldn’t fear that troops doing training there would escalate the war.
- Some want their allies to consider similar action, saying Russia is a threat to Europe.
Russia is invading a sovereign nation based on invented misinformation and lies. They are committing countless documented war crimes.
If the war is escalated because some countries are non-directly sending personell to help the ukrainian army defend itself, it’s 100% on Russia.
It always had been 100% on Putler.
Should have been done as soon as the Kiev rush failed.
Yep, call putins bluff and send in troops and wax the russian military. All this “o no they’re going to escalate” is just giving them more reasons to escalate, because there is no threat of retaliation from NATO/EU.
But we have to wait until it’s almost or actually too late.
Dear god, no…just no.
I wish the West would arm Ukraine with squadrons of 4.5 gen airframes, fully stocked and layered air defense systems, hundreds of Abrams/Leopard II’s, and setup massive training facilities in bordering NATO counties.
However, putting NATO troops in theatre is such an absurd escalatory risk that I refuse to believe it’s not intentionally designed to prompt a full scale military intervention.
Training troops isn’t a huge escalation, nor is Estonian trainers getting blown up (bad as that would be). But if this policy moves forward, it’s only a matter of time before a dozen, or more, American or British trainers get blown up, and that could very easily ignite that powder keg into something that can’t be contained, because the hawks won’t want it to be.
That kind of defeats the purpose of “help the Ukrainians defeat Russia in Ukraine, to prevent a wider war”.
