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Think twice before committing to European boots on the ground in Ukraine

Negotiations between the warring parties are likely to set the parameters of any post-conflict deployment

The writer is distinguished chair in Russia and Eurasia policy and a senior political scientist at the Rand Corporation

Despite all the differences between president-elect Donald Trump’s team and key European governments, both sides seem to agree on the merits of at least one policy: deploying a European force to Ukraine after the fighting there ends.

In a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and France’s Emmanuel Macron last month, Trump reportedly said that European troops should be present in Ukraine to monitor any ceasefire. An anonymous member of his team put it more bluntly: “We are not sending American men and women to uphold peace in Ukraine . . . Get the Poles, Germans, British and French to do it.” 

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