The Polish Foreign Affairs Minister, Radislow Sikorsi is backing French President Emmanuel Macron’s consideration to deploy troops in Ukraine. Leaders of the Baltic states have also made similar statements. Macron has recently, been more specific in his remarks during a meeting with Opposition political parties where he argued that France would deploy troops to Ukraine if Odessa and Kyiv were threatened by the Russian army. Macron, however, does not have the political support of the Opposition on this proposal and his Defense Minister also rolled back Macron’s comments.
Macron is a frontrunner in shaping the strategic discourse on a potential European troop deployment in Ukraine, and is trying to set some fundamental precepts in this strategy. Drawing Kyiv and Odessa as a red line for Europe means that Europe would intervene in Ukraine if the Ukrainian nation, as it is, is threatened by Russia. Kyiv and Odesa are indispensable for a healthy, safe, and thriving Ukrainian nation because while Kyiv is the capital, Odessa is needed for its port. Fundamentally, this means that Russia should not decide which nations have the right to exist or not.
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