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Sending troops to Ukraine “not excluded” by Emmanuel Macron: “the step to take” is “difficult to imagine”, analyzes General Jean-Paul Paloméros
Sending troops to Ukraine “not excluded” by Emmanuel Macron: “the step to take” is “difficult to imagine”, analyzes General Jean-Paul Paloméros – (franceinfo)
General Jean-Paul Paloméros, former Chief of Staff of the Air Force, is the guest of 12/13 info, Tuesday February 27. He reacts in particular to the latest statements by Emmanuel Macron, who considered that “nothing should be excluded” regarding the sending of Western troops to Ukraine.
During a meeting in support of Ukraine in the presence of 26 other leaders, Monday February 26, Emmanuel Macron was questioned about the possibility of sending Western troops to Ukraine. “There is no consensus today to send, in an official, assumed and endorsed manner, ground troops. But dynamically, nothing must be excluded”replied the head of state.
Reacting to these remarks, General Jean-Paul Paloméros said in 12/13 info, Tuesday: “The step to be taken is difficult to imagine today because, if a NATO country – let’s say France, since it was the French president who spoke – committed troops, it would ipso facto lead to a sort of ripple phenomenon, a spiral, in which NATO would ultimately be involved.” “That’s the risk. It’s happening on the borders of NATO, it’s a high-intensity war, and Russia is involved. So Russia could, more or less legitimately, attack a another member of NATO, not necessarily France”continues the former Chief of Staff of the Air Force.
A “combat aviation” that is “cruelly” missing in kyiv
“If we look at the problem from a purely military level”what is missing “cruelly” to Ukraine is “a combat aviation”analyzes General Jean-Paul Paloméros. “So if we had to provide something and enter this war, this is what we would have to provide initially, because the Ukrainians are deprived of it, and they are not going to have combat aircraft worthy of this. name. And that creates an imbalance, an asymmetry vis-à-vis Russia”he explains.
