The Daily Populous Monday May 27th, 2024 morning edition
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The Baltic states and Poland do not rule out sending their troops to Ukraine if Russia succeeds on the battlefield, reports German media Der Spiegel.

According to Spiegel, Baltic MPs warned representatives of the German government about the consequences of Berlin's policy towards the Ukraine war on the sidelines of the Lennart Meri Conference on foreign and security policy, which took place in the Estonian capital last week.

Germany refuses to provide the Ukrainian army with long-range weapons and prohibits the Ukrainian Armed Forces from striking Russian territory with Western weapons.

"They argue that if the Russians manage to make a strategic breakthrough in eastern Ukraine because the West is only half-heartedly helping Kyiv, the situation could escalate dramatically. In that case, the Baltic states and Poland would not wait for Russian troops to deploy on their borders, Baltic politicians warned, but would send troops to Ukraine themselves. And it was clear what this would mean: NATO would become a party to the war," the article says.

As Spiegel explains, this is exactly the scenario that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and US President Joe Biden fear.

"Those who want to limit the war through excessive restraint actually risk getting it out of control," the media says.

Talks about sending Western troops to Ukraine

French President Emmanuel Macron was the first to voice the possibility of sending Western troops to Ukraine. But Macron's idea was supported only by the Baltic states and Poland, while the rest of NATO countries, including Germany, criticized the French leader's statement.

Recently, The New York Times reported that NATO was discussing the possibility of sending military instructors to Ukraine to train soldiers. Currently, NATO troops are training Ukrainian soldiers abroad.

Zelenskyy also voiced the idea of deploying NATO instructors to Ukraine. He explained that this could speed up the training of the Ukrainian military, as they would not have to be sent to Poland, Germany, or Britain.

Taman_Should on May 26th, 2024 at 19:09 UTC »

The only things Russia “successfully” did are unite Ukraine with the rest of Eastern Europe, and create a Ukrainian national identity. They’ll never be able to absorb or permanently occupy the territory now.

tallandlankyagain on May 26th, 2024 at 17:45 UTC »

Good. Western Europe needs to wake the fuck up too. Russia only understands one thing.

poklane on May 26th, 2024 at 17:38 UTC »

For these countries there'd be 2 options if Russia starts to win:

Get involved with the current war to prevent Russia from winning Wait for the inevitable Russian invasion of their countries

That's a very, very easy choice.