{"id":192234,"date":"2025-09-01T19:37:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T19:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/192234\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T19:37:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T19:37:21","slug":"german-defense-chief-slaps-down-von-der-leyens-talk-of-eu-troops-for-ukraine-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/192234\/","title":{"rendered":"German defense chief slaps down von der Leyen\u2019s talk of EU troops for Ukraine \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He acknowledged that governments are weighing what might be possible \u201cunder which conditions and reservations,\u201d but stressed: \u201cTo discuss this publicly, at this point in time, I consider to be totally wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pistorius was responding to von der Leyen\u2019s weekend interview with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/8ade14ca-7aa1-4413-887b-59712037665c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Financial Times<\/a>, in which she said Europe was drawing up \u201cpretty precise plans\u201d for a multinational deployment to Ukraine as part of post-war security guarantees.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Commission chief said the plans could involve tens of thousands of troops from European countries, with U.S. backing in areas such as intelligence and command.<\/p>\n<p>Von der Leyen argued that robust guarantees are \u201cparamount\u201d to protect Ukraine against future Russian aggression and to safeguard Europe\u2019s own security. She has also welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s willingness to contribute what she described as an \u201cArticle-5-like security guarantee\u201d for Kyiv, a reference to NATO&#8217;s common defense provision.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of stationing Western troops in Ukraine is highly divisive. France and the U.K. are discussing the issue, the U.S. and other NATO countries like Poland have ruled out sending troops while others are unclear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He acknowledged that governments are weighing what might be possible \u201cunder which conditions and reservations,\u201d but stressed: \u201cTo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":192235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[102534,262,69,156,117,3195,3062,8959,2852,50,123,4995,273,376,67,132,2856,68,275],"class_list":{"0":"post-192234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-boris-pistorius","10":"tag-defense","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-industry","15":"tag-intelligence","16":"tag-nato","17":"tag-negotiations","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-poland","20":"tag-security","21":"tag-ukraine","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115130731331578972","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}