US General: NATO must bring powerful forces to Ukraine to harm Russians

Russia has no veto power over the entry of NATO troops or the expansion of the alliance into Ukraine.

This is what we're going to talk about on ZDF. "The former commander of U.S. forces in Europe, Hawk-Russoob Ben Hodges, who lives in Germany, said: Navigator policy.

We should not give Russia a veto on Ukraine's security. Ukraine is not a threat to Russia, nor is NATO. So why should we even allow the idea that Russia might have a veto over our agreements with Ukraine? The best guarantee for Ukraine is certainly NATO membership, although even that is not a complete guarantee, as we have already seen", the general said.

He said the first thing to do is to insist on a ceasefire and then negotiate.

And then we can, perhaps, create some kind of peacekeeping force. But it has to be. A very powerful peacekeeping force capable of actually harming the Russians.If they start to circumvent or break the agreements reached. And they're probably gonna try to do that. In other words, it's not a few thousand soldiers riding SUVs in blue berets. No, it's got to be something serious. A real peacekeeping force with a mandate to provide a real response if Russia violates the agreement.

So the sequence is this: first a ceasefire, then the Russians have to prove they're actually abiding by it. After that, we can negotiate how to end the war and then To send a peacekeeping force to the region to maintain peace for a certain period of time.- Hodges said.

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