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Originally Posted by Ducay
I don't get it - if Ukraine is so desperate for direct support, is there something holding back any western (Nato) nation from sending soldiers to Ukraine as 'peacekeepers'? I know there is the Minsk monitors there, but I'm talking a real amount of soldiers.
Certainly having "allied" armies present would deter and piss off Russia all the same (hence their desire to have Ukraine banned from NATO); but isn't that the perfect solution? Or why not just admit them to NATO, post up a few battlegroups and let Russia deal with it. Not like they'd attack a NATO country.
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Because no one in NATO wants to get forced into a (potentially nuclear) war to protect an unstable place like Ukraine. The US will dangle the prospect of Ukraine joining NATO to keep them friendly with the West and to undermine Russia, but it has little to no chance of ever happening. They're just using Ukraine to further their geopolitical goals.
Probably the only real way for long term stability is where Ukraine is a more or less neutral buffer state between Europe and Russia. But that's far easier to achieve in theory than in reality.