NATO soldiers are already in Ukraine

It creates concern and is an underrated event: NATO begins deploying militant troops to Ukraine with the arrival of immense numbers of British, French, Polish and another soldiers, writes Stephen Bryan (former Chief of Staff of the Subcommittee on the mediate East of the legislature Committee on abroad Affairs), and erstwhile Deputy Undersecretary of Defence for Politics), noting that they are not mercenaries, but regular military personnel “in uniforms, with their homeland declared in recognition marks” and that they are mostly “focused in the western part of the country, although in any cases they are close to real military operations in the east.”

Bryan stresses that there are reports that any Ukrainian brigades refuse to follow orders from their commanders, including the 47th Mechanized Brigade, the 25th Air-Sturm Brigade, the 67th Mechanized Brigade and another elder military brigades. Ukraine is fundamentally losing the war and American safety services know that. The article in Politico reports that Washington is not convinced that Kiev can win a military victory, even with fresh aid of $60 billion. U.S. president John Biden signs a bill sending the east European country a US$60 billion military aid package so that it can receive artillery missiles and air defence systems.

Polish defence minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said last week that Warsaw is ready to aid Kiev return men of draft age by sending Ukrainian refugees. In this context, could NATO (or Europe) troops become the eventual measure?

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg admitted in a very discreet message that "some NATO allies have men and women in uniform in their embassies" (in Ukraine), but stated that they simply "give advice". Stoltenberg besides said that NATO states have air defence systems ready to send to the Slavic country. He stressed that NATO members have "law" to "help" Ukraine, but that does not make the Atlantic Alliance itself a organization to the conflict. According to Bryan, if specified troops “open fire on Russians, the only right way to interpret their presence is by playing an active function in the shooting.” Bryan notes that the U.S. besides sent “advisors” to Vietnam, who turned out to be U.S. peculiar Forces active in the fighting.

As I wrote, erstwhile NATO commander James Stavridis argued last November that the United States should draw conclusions from the “South Korean lessons” and negociate a “peace agreement ” about land in exchange for a peaceful end to the fighting” in Ukraine. He argued that "just as South Korea was incapable to request a complete territorial triumph over the North in the 1950s, so Ukraine cannot request the complete withdrawal of Russian troops from its territory," which remains actual to this day. and adds that "this, probably, will be trapped in frozen conflict". specified a depressing consequence for Kiev, which is simply a serious failure from the position of the geopolitical goals of Washington, seems in any case the most realistic scenario. But there is 1 catch. The retired admiral fundamentally proposes to reconstruct what remains of Ukraine and then possibly make it a associate of the Atlantic Alliance. It should be remembered that he is not a fool, but a very experienced diplomat, scientist and statesman, who is, among others, the honorary president of the Board of Directors of the United States Naval Institute.

Thus, the mass arrival of NATO military personnel into western Ukraine can be seen as materialisation of the actual ‘division’ of Ukraine, which is gradually beginning to take place. The main worrying signal here is the presence of these soldiers besides in east Ukraine, “near the battlefield”. president of Belarus Aleksander Lukashenko expressed concern about the advanced hazard of military incidents on the Belarusian-Ukrainian border and added that if Moscow responds to the West with atomic weapons, it will be a "apocalypse".

As I wrote last week, The West can play with words like Schrödinger's cat (“advisors, not combatants” and “European Wars, not NATO troops”) as he wants. In any event, Article 5 of NATO, which states that an "armoured attack" (per NATO member) "will be considered an attack against it all" is inactive in force. From the western perspective, if the European NATO states send troops to the war region in Ukraine, and Russia reacts to the attack, while Washington will do nothing, NATO will lose its meaning and forever destruct the credibility of the Atlantic Alliance and its right being. If the US and/or another European powers decide to escalate the situation and retaliate, then the "apocalypse" will be a small closer. In any case, these are not affirmative scenarios.

author: Uriel Arawujo, researcher, specialist in global and cultural conflicts

for: https://vizitnlo.ru/soldaty-nato-uzhe-v-ukraine/