BREAKING: NATO allies are inching closer to sending troops into Ukraine to train Ukrainian forces. Ukrainian officials have asked their NATO counterparts to help train 150,000 inside Ukraine. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has said a NATO deployment of trainers appears inevitable. -NYT

7 comments

1. Is it not better to train them in Poland or Romania?

2. I thought NATO was a defensive pact.

3. Good, slowly moving towards actual troop deployment in Ukraine without it being abrupt enough for the Kremlin to freak out. Using their own tactics against them

4. Pretty sure Canada has been doing this for years?

5. Why not? Russia doesn’t get to dictate the rules.

6. Do these trainers have to NATO? I would have thought they could be there under the flag of their country, not officially NATO. Also I was led to believe that Article 5 is only relevant when a NATO country is attacked and requests assistance, so this would perhaps not include military personnel in a non-NATO country – ?

7. It would be very dangerous for NATO as an organization to do this. It would be way less sticky to train these Ukrainians inside NATO countries.

   What does training inside Ukraine add?