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“At the same time, the entire policy proposal and idea here, particularly when it comes to the multinational force, is dependent on a ceasefire, which of course is dependent on Russia agreeing. So Russia by extension has a veto over this entire policy and concept for Ukraine's future security.”
“It's not going to be a peacekeeping force. It's not going to be an interposition force that gets deployed to the front and is the thing standing between the Ukrainians and the Russians going to war again. In part because, as you noted, Russia could veto it.”
“The idea that you would relocate this training effort to Ukrainian soil where you can have NATO trainers co-pilot with Ukrainians who actually understand the battlefield and design training that integrates NATO operations and concepts into what it is that the Ukrainians need. I think that would be much better.”
“The idea of the advising piece is that you would have NATO planners embedded at different levels of the Ukrainian force to help them think about their force and integrate this question of manpower. It is about producing real capability that is integrated and effective at the end.”
“I mean, the Ukrainian, first of all, maintaining an air force is extremely expensive. So, this is ultimately going to fall to a large extent on Ukraine's external partners to fund.”
“You're never going to break that cycle until you have everyone sit down and really do this kind of intensive planning and build the bureaucratic structures that's going to manage this problem in tandem with the day-to-day fight.”
“it's not like we're talking about creating a parallel NATO or anything like that. we wouldn't want to, but sort of a new Ukrainian defense and deterrence packed organization kind of thing which is not some clunky consensus-based organization.”
“What I think needs to be done is number one to find a way to cabin off specific funds that go beyond what is needed to sustain Ukraine in the current fight. Procuring munitions, air defense interceptors, all of that. and you would have some portion of the annual defense aid 20% something like that whatever it is devoted to you know this kind of future force and longer term procurements.”
“I think long range strike is going to be critical to any Ukrainian defense and deterrence strategy going forward. No question.”
“But I think fundamentally we're going to have to find a way to operate outside of this clunky consensus based decision-m where any one spoiler can completely derail the entire plan. I do think the commission needs to be thinking much more seriously about how to find these mechanisms to to use qualified majority voting or to, you know, allow for the EU to become more multi-speed.”