Yep, call putins bluff and send in troops and wax the russian military. All this "o no they're going to escalate" is just giving them more reasons to escalate, because there is no threat of retaliation from NATO/EU.
I wish the West would arm Ukraine with squadrons of 4.5 gen airframes, fully stocked and layered air defense systems, hundreds of Abrams/Leopard II's, and setup massive training facilities in bordering NATO counties.
However, putting NATO troops in theatre is such an absurd escalatory risk that I refuse to believe it's not intentionally designed to prompt a full scale military intervention.
Training troops isn't a huge escalation, nor is Estonian trainers getting blown up (bad as that would be). But if this policy moves forward, it's only a matter of time before a dozen, or more, American or British trainers get blown up, and that could very easily ignite that powder keg into something that can't be contained, because the hawks won't want it to be.
That kind of defeats the purpose of "help the Ukrainians defeat Russia in Ukraine, to prevent a wider war".
I see that putin's trolls are becoming more articulate. But anyway you are just saying that inaction is the best reaponse, and that's been proven to be bullshit.
No, I'm saying flood Ukraine with Western arms because it's worth it.
But putting in active duty NATO troops is a sure fire ticket to an uncontrollable escalation.
I have to admit though, seeing all you keyboard strategists act like force on force conflict between NATO and Russia is no big deal, makes me believe either you're all genuine idiots, or are actually pushing a coordinated message yourselves. Most likely it's the former, but that's just a guess.
Disagree, putting troops in support and logistics will free up ukranians to do the heavy lifting. It would still be disingenuous to free up more ukranians to die if you don't properly arm them.
But, either Putin will continue waging war and restoring the good old Russia of ye old days.
Or, Putin can be reasoned with and has limited goals.
Pick a lane and act like it. I'm relatively confident everyone agrees it is lane 1.. just some advocate for inaction because reasons.
But getting Ukranians help should start with driving NATO patriots to the Polish Ukranian border and protecting the skies over the western half of the country. From there, assist in training, logistics and definately medical.
Russia is not looking for escalation either. So dead NATO soldiers can easily lead to opening up other lines of weapons... Especially with f16 on the way.