The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff mentioned that NATO trainers may be sent to Ukraine, potentially escalating the conflict with Russia. The US is not currently planning to send military trainers to Ukraine, waiting until the war with Russia is over. The Kremlin could interpret the deployment of NATO trainers as a provocation without a clear agreement.
“NATO allies are inching closer to sending troops into Ukraine to train Ukrainian forces, a move that would be another blurring of a previous red line and could draw the United States and Europe more directly into the war,” https://t.co/p2JDF04DZF
Absent an explicit agreement with the West over the scope and limits of NATO’s military presence in Ukraine, the Kremlin would likely view the initial wave of NATO trainers as a trial balloon to gauge Russia’s reaction, writes @MEpiskopos https://t.co/hqGGizYLhi
NATO is now talking about deploying military "trainers" to the Ukraine war. The Chairman of Biden's Joint Chiefs of Staff says “We’ll get there eventually, over time." The New York Times says boots on the ground "appear inevitable." Our leaders are absolutely, psychotically…
Absent an explicit agreement with the West over the scope and limits of a NATO military presence in Ukraine, the Kremlin would likely view the initial wave of NATO trainers as a trial balloon to gauge Russia’s reaction, writes @MEpiskopos https://t.co/hqGGizYLhi
The #US is not planning to send military trainers into #Ukraine and will likely do so only when the war with #Russia is over, the top US general says, after France opened the door to sending troops to train Kyiv’s forces. https://t.co/gqZ0LQBwPw
Sending NATO personnel into Ukraine absent some kind of larger, explicit understanding with Moscow is highly likely to embroil NATO states, including the U.S, in a shooting war with Russian forces, writes @MEpiskopos https://t.co/hqGGizYLhi
The Joint Chiefs chair said that NATO “trainers” will eventually be sent to Ukraine, breaking one of the few remaining red lines preventing the Ukraine war from erupting into a direct conflict between Russia and the West https://t.co/hqGGizZj6Q