Late, Monday February 26, while European leaders had left the Élysée Palace where they had participated in a conference in support of Ukraine, Emmanuel Macron broke a taboo.
Responding to a question from the press on a possible sending of Western troops on the ground, alongside Ukrainian fighters, the head of state replied that if "there is no consensus today to send official manner, assumed and endorsed by the troops on the ground
(…)
, dynamically, nothing must be excluded.”
The hypothesis, until now, appeared as a red line, impassable among all, for kyiv's European and American allies.
For one major reason: there is no question of risking escalation, direct confrontation, European soldiers against Russian soldiers, with Russia, a power equipped with nuclear weapons (
like France, the only nuclear power in the EU
).
Didn't President Joe Biden himself recently declare that sending NATO troops would be "World War III"?
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