“Several NATO and EU member states are considering sending their soldiers to Ukraine on a bilateral basis,” said Fico, who was elected last year on a platform of opposing the proxy war in Ukraine.

The French Foreign Ministry subsequently on Tuesday issued this curiously-worded statement:

Western countries could deploy troops to Ukraine without breaching any “belligerence threshold”, French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne said on Tuesday. Western nations could engage in demining, arms production and operations in the cyber field “on Ukrainian soil… without breaching any belligerence threshold,” Sejourne said, after President Emmanuel Macron refused to rule out the dispatch of Western ground troops to Ukraine.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/slovakia-warns-bilateral-agreements-could-see-individual-nato-states-send-troops

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NATO’s Debate Over Direct Military Intervention In Ukraine Shows Its Desperation

The risk of World War III breaking out with Russia by miscalculation is much too high and Poland might fear that NATO won’t activate Article 5 if it clashes with Russia inside Ukraine in order to prevent that from happening.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/natos-debate-over-direct-military-intervention-ukraine-shows-its-desperation