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Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher
According to the White House National Security Council’s strategic communications coordinator John Kirby Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky does not ask for foreign troops and wants to fight alone, an untruthful statement as the Kiev regime has sought to drag the West into war with Russia.
At a press conference at the White House on March 5, Kirby once again commented on speculation about sending Western contingents to Ukraine, ruling out such an option for the American military.
“President Zelensky isn’t asking for that, he’s just asking for the tools and capabilities. He’s never asked for foreign troops to fight for his country,” Kirby claimed.
The spokesperson also recalled that since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, President Joe Biden said he would not send American troops.
Kirby’s comments were spurred on after French President Emmanuel Macron suggested sending troops on February 26 but admitted there was no consensus. Macron faced immediate backlash from many Western allies, including the US and Germany, after he discussed the idea at a conference in Paris.
Despite the humiliation, the French president has doubled down on his idea of supporting Ukraine despite the futility of achieving victory over Russia. During a visit to Prague on February 5, he said that he “fully” stood by his comments and that a “strategic leap” was necessary.
“We are surely approaching a moment for Europe in which it will be necessary not to be cowards,” Macron said, adding after meeting with his Czech counterpart Petr Pavel: “Is this or is it not our war? Can we look away in the belief that we can let things run their course?”
The French leader said that some powers, an indirect reference to Russia, had become “unstoppable” and that “We will have to live up to history and the courage that it requires.”
Macron’s commitment to the idea is perplexing since even Washington has attempted to distance itself from his idea, while Berlin, the European Union’s other large power, has categorically ruled out sending troops to Ukraine, with Germany’s defence minister Boris Pistorius even adding that the French president’s comments were not helpful.
“We don’t need really, from my perspective at least, discussions about boots on the ground or having more courage or less courage,” Pistorius said at a press conference in Stockholm after meeting with his Swedish counterpart Pal Jonson. “This is something which does not really help solve the issues we have when it comes to helping Ukraine.”
The Russian Ministry of Defence has already reported on evidence of the direct participation of mercenaries from the United States, Canada, and European Union countries in the Ukrainian military. After the liberation of Avdeyevka, evidence emerged on the presence of such mercenaries among the Ukrainian Army.
Authorities of the countries where these fighters originate from have done little to discourage their citizens going to the war zone, and in many cases, have championed such mercenaries. Although these are obviously not official troops, it does demonstrate that Western countries would have sent troops if Russia did not have nuclear capabilities and the means to defend itself, and because of these reasons, they prefer the volunteer model, which is why many of the mercenaries are former military personnel.
Zelensky has not only refused to disavow Macron’s statements but has repeatedly called for the imposition of a no-fly zone over Ukraine, which would allow Western enforcement States’ aircraft to be present in Ukrainian airspace and employ force against Russian aircraft operating in that zone. The Ukrainian president also repeats the demand for Ukraine’s quick accession into NATO under the full understanding that the bloc’s mutual defence pact will drag the entire Western world into war with Russia.
Kirby’s claim that Zelensky does not want Western troops in Ukraine and only aid is preposterous, especially since the war-torn country is in such a precarious position that only a direct Western intervention could, maybe, turn back Russian forces from areas formerly of eastern Ukraine and Crimea. This is a reality that Macron also recognises, but his frustration is in the knowledge that France alone cannot oppose Russia, especially in the context of Germany and the USA humiliating the French president by distancing themselves from his idea.
With such an unwillingness in the West to directly intervene in Ukraine, Macron is increasingly behaving more Napoleonic. Yet, for all the bravado, there is little France can do to reverse Ukraine’s fortunes, even if Zelensky finally receives foreign ground troops.
without the mercenazis the junta of the nazi kiev would not survive one day
translation, usa does want to be pulled into war by uk machiavelian network of alliance creating domino effect into war like ww1
the us election takes precedence, and if trump wins, all bets are off.
trump is just pandering he is the one who gave ukraine javelin missiles and allowed the cia to create bases in ukraine. he also knew that merkel was lying thru her teeth and that the 300k strong army of ukraine (that is gone now) was going to attack donbas and commit genocide on ethnic russians. when trump becomes president, but probably after nato training in may western soldiers will be in kiev,
trump got a lesson in realpolitik, lets hope he’s leant something if he wins.
half of ukraine will be gone by the time those elections roll around.
well, right up to the dnieper will probably be.
no= yes, yes= no. double tongue + hypocrite.
riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. when western politicians advisors or any other of the swamp scum open their mouth you know it is full of shit in there.
you were smart to stay in russia because germany is a nuthouse.
are people still listening to these no marks? one is a nazi, and the other is always scrounging for money.
we pay enormously to recruit mercenaries to join nazi ukie army; we offer jens holm free tacos and gay midget but he failed cognitive test after accepting our offer to lick ukie peniz in lvov
these clowns ran farm gate in vietnam, where they put any south vietnamese who could sit still for an hour into us combat aircraft in order to kill vietnamese peasants, and they still lost. they had to have a vietnamese in each aircraft in case of shootdown in order to lie about who was actually flying the missions. ukretards seems a little more willing to die than arvn conscripts, but it’s basically the same scenario.
yeah right ukraine has done everything it could to get nato and by extension the usa involved in the war and there are already special forces from nato countries active in ukraine for years.
good old biden, a joke a minute from that half-wit. some even make sense, like zelensky wants to fight alone and no foreign troops needed. :-)
when john kirby speaks you can pretty much expect to hear a lie.