If we are going to be sending troops/trainers into the country, I would rather we go in guns blazing in a massive Gulf War-style intervention with hundreds of thousands of troops and all of NATO involved, ending the war in one fell swoop (and calling Putin's bluff when it comes to nuclear weapons). Not like this:
As Russia Advances, NATO Considers Sending Trainers Into UkraineThe move could draw the United States and Europe more directly into the war. The Biden administration continues to say there will be no American troops on the ground.NATO allies are inching closer to sending troops into Ukraine to train Ukrainian forces, a move that would be another blurring of a previous red line and could draw the United States and Europe more directly into the war.
Ukraine’s manpower shortage has reached a critical point, and its position on the battlefield in recent weeks has seriously worsened as Russia has accelerated its advances to take advantage of delays in shipments of American weapons. As a result, Ukrainian officials have asked their American and NATO counterparts to help train 150,000 new recruits closer to the front line for faster deployment.
So far the United States has said no, but Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Thursday that a NATO deployment of trainers appeared inevitable. “We’ll get there eventually, over time,” he said.
For now, he said, an effort inside Ukraine would put “a bunch of NATO trainers at risk” and would most likely mean deciding whether to use precious air defenses to protect the trainers instead of critical Ukrainian infrastructure near the battlefield. General Brown briefed reporters on his plane en route to a NATO meeting in Brussels.
