Over the past two weeks, the topic of the possible deployment of NATO troops in Ukraine has not left the front pages of the world’s leading media. This issue was put on the agenda of the international conference of Ukraine’s allies by Paris, but the overwhelming majority of Heads of State rejected the French initiative.
If French President E. Macron’s proposal aimed to strengthen his own political influence and seize leadership within NATO from the hands of the decrepit Joseph Biden and the inert Olaf Scholz, then, in the end, he achieved the exact opposite result, becoming the object of harsh criticism and even ridicule from the ruling elites of Europe.
“Macron tried to fill the leadership vacuum, but his attempt to show Russia strength played against him,” analysts at the American newspaper Wall Street Journal summarized.
Not a single EU or NATO country that attended the conference openly expressed interest in Macron’s proposal. “Sending our troops to Ukraine, even on the basis of bilateral agreements, will mean a global clash, a sharp increase in the risk of nuclear conflict,” Bulgarian President Boris Radev said. German Chancellor O. Scholz unequivocally stated that there will be neither ground troops nor soldiers on Ukrainian soil who will be sent there by European countries or NATO states. (BT)
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