NATO Head Wannabe Kallas Open to Troops on the Ground in Russia
Ever since the Ukraine invasion, some of the weakest countries have had the biggest mouths about how they, by uniting, could defeat Russia.
Kaja Kallas, the head of Estonia who has been one of the world’s biggest Russia hawks, said the NATO alliance — which she dreams of heading — should be open to officially entering the war by putting troops on the ground in Ukraine.
“We shouldn’t be afraid of our own power,” she told Sky News, according to RT. “Russia is saying this or that step is escalation, but defense is not escalation. I’m saying we should have all options on the table. What more can we do in order to really help Ukraine win?”
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Kallas warned last March that there was growing concern that peace could break out in Ukraine if the West starts pushing Kyiv to appease Russia after its illegal invasion. Urmas Reinsalu, the Estonian foreign minister, said at the time that Ukraine either needs to join NATO after the war or receive nuclear weapons if there’s any hope of coexisting with Russia in the future.
TRENDPOST: It’s hard to take the pro-war comments from a president who oversees a country that can be invaded by Hoboken, N.J. seriously. Estonia’s military ranks 108 out of 142 in world military ranking, according to the 2022 Global Firepower Review. (The U.S. is ranked first and Russia second.)
France’s Emmanuel Macron told a conference on Monday that he couldn’t rule out French troops entering the fray in Ukraine. He said, “Nothing should be ruled out.”
Konstantin Kosachev, the vice speaker of Russia’s upper chamber, said the result of French troops fighting in Ukraine could be catastrophic.
“This is the line beyond which it’s no longer just NATO’s involvement in the war – this has been happening for a long time, but can be interpreted as the alliance entering direct hostilities, or even as a declaration of war,” Kosachev posted on Telegram, according to RT.
The New York Times reported that there was some chatter at a conference in support of Ukraine in Paris that Western countries are considering deploying troops inside Ukraine. Prime Minister Robert Fico of Slovakia noted the rumors and said he was opposed the the idea, the report said.
Macron was once seen as a rational voice in the West, compared the the warhawks in Poland and Washington who have wanted war with Russia for decades.
Kallas, who has been pushing for the U.S. to intervene in Ukraine’s fight against Russia since the beginning of the war, warned that NATO has five years to prepare for an all-out war with Russia, a claim that Moscow brushed aside.
Jens Stoltenberg told Welt Am Sonntag, the German newspaper, in an interview published 10 February that the West does not want war with Moscow, but still “prepare ourselves for a confrontation that could last decades,” according to The Kyiv Independent.
“If (Russian President Vladimir) Putin wins in Ukraine, there is no guarantee that Russian aggression will not spread to other countries,” Stoltenberg said.
TRENDPOST: The Trends Journal has noted that NATO’s smallest members—such as Estonia with a population smaller than Manhattan’s—are the toughest talkers against Russia and have been working to instigate larger countries like Germany and France to take decisive action against Moscow.