Canada is prepared to contribute troops to Great Britain and the Peace Maintenance Force of the “Peace Coalition” of France in case there is a stop the fire in Ukraine, said Defense Minister Bill Blair on Wednesday.
He made the comments on the annual forum of the Institute of Defense Associations of the Defense Conference in Ottawa.
After a weekend meeting of allies in London, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that Canada “was analyzing the best ways he can help.” He acknowledged that all the options were on the table.
Blair’s comments on Wednesday were one step further, saying that active discussions are underway.
“Canada is ready and is able to contribute to that force,” Blair told journalists after his speech. “But we also believe that there are important discussions that must take place with respect to the security guarantees for Ukraine and the foreign forces we are serving.”
The National Defense Minister Bill Blair said on Wednesday that there are discussions that must have on the security guarantees for Ukraine and for the forces that would serve there.
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, led the initiative that is being gathered after the disastrous and televised Falling Out in the oval office between the president of the United States, Donald Trump and the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Directed by the United Kingdom and France, the Peace Maintenance Force could see that several European countries put boots in eastern Ukraine in case there is a high fire or peace agreement. The idea would be that the presence of Western troops would deter Russian President Vladimir Putin again to assemble and then try to conquer all Ukraine.
However, force would have to be backed with security guarantees, especially Americans. The absence of such guarantees in a mineral resources agreement between the United States and Ukraine contributed to the public argument between Trump and Zelenskyy.
Starmer has said that the United Kingdom, France and Ukraine are working on a peace agreement that could appear to Washington.
The United States vice president, JD Vance, dismissed the effort and said that an American participation in the Ukrainian economy was a “better guarantee of security than 20,000 random country troops that has not fought against a war in 30 or 40 years.”
The comment caused outrage in the United Kingdom and among American Democrats. Among other things, Vance’s comments ignore the fact that the Canadian, British and French forces fought alongside Americans in Afghanistan. Great Britain also joined the United States in Iraq’s invasion.
The “coalition of the approach disposed” would allow countries, all NATO members, act in a group but not under the umbrella of the Western Military Alliance. That would overcome political disagreements in NATO, where Hungary and Slovakia have taken pro-ruse positions and created obstacles to allied consensus.
Until now, Russia has rejected the idea of a peace maintenance force: NATO, the European or other union.
Baltic states – Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia along with Finland – have expressed a quiet interest in joining Britain, France and Canada. The Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, was recently summoned by saying that he is open to the idea of contributing to the maintenance of peace to Ukraine.
