Most leaders acknowledge privately that the possibility of a Western military presence in Ukraine is no longer a hypothetical question
Soldiers cross the Wistula river with Abrams tanks as they take part in the NATO DRAGON-24 military exercise in Korzeniewo, northern Poland, on March 4. Poland is hosting armed forces of other countries for the national exercise DRAGON-24 that is part of the Steadfast Defender exercise, NATO's biggest military exercise since the Cold War.Western leaders have learned to brace themselves for the worst whenever Emmanuel Macron decides to weigh in publicly on geopolitics.
The folly of Mr. Macron’s comments only seemed to have been confirmed a few days later when Mr. Putin himself fired back by threatening – once again – the use of nuclear weapons against “potential interventionists” in the Ukraine war. Countless commentators on both sides of the Atlantic accused the French President of needlessly sowing divisions within NATO.
The German Chancellor has stalled on sending long-range missiles to Ukraine because doing so would also require sending troops. German air force officials made similar comments in a conversation that was intercepted by Russian sources.
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