Canada is open to sending troops back to Ukraine to train Ukrainian forces if the right “conditions” are met, Canadian Defense Minister Bill Blair said on Tuesday.
Like many other NATO countries, Canada began training Ukrainian forces inside Ukraine following the 2014 US-backed coup that ousted former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. But since the February 2022 Russian invasion, Canada has been training Ukrainians inside the UK, Latvia, and Poland.
Last year, the Discord leaks confirmed there were a small number of NATO special operations forces inside Ukraine, including troops from the US, the UK, France, and Latvia, but there’s no sign Canadians have been in the country.
“Right now, circumstances are not appropriate for that training to take place in Ukraine, but we’re going to continue to train,” Blair said. “We have had a number of discussions with Ukrainians that suggest when the conditions are right, we may be able to return.”
Blair’s comments come after French President Emmanuel Macron stirred an uproar by saying NATO should not rule out sending troops to Ukraine. Russian media also published a recording of a conversation between German military officers that revealed British soldiers were on the ground in Ukraine helping fire Storm Shadow missiles.
While NATO’s small troop presence in Ukraine and assistance in helping Ukraine fire Western weapons has been an open secret, the alliance’s direct involvement in the war risks a direct confrontation with Russia, which could quickly turn nuclear. Russia has said any open NATO troop deployment would make a direct clash inevitable.
Apparently, it is not too late to get a suite on the Titanic.
Same old routine, first advisers, then training staff, then “small number of support personnel” until full blown combat boots on the ground. People in these so called democracies really need to vote these warmongers out of office.
What exactly are the Canadians going to “train” the Ukrainian troops to do? This isn’t Afghanistan or some third world country that didn’t have a functioning military beforehand.
Exactly…! The Ukrainian troops don’t need any more training as CIA and NATO have been training them for years…! What Canadian troops would or could do is to train the first-time Rookie Mercenaries giving CIA and NATO a break and at the same time pretending they are behind Ukraine in this conflict…!
They’ll train them how to go into a fetal position.
When I saw the headline, I thought maybe the Canadians would be the students. “Advanced Practice: Stubborn Refusal to Face Reality in the Face of Repeated Failure and Enormous Losses.”
Canada spends 1.2% of their GDP on defense. Less than HALF what is expected of NATO members. A weak, cheap, cowardly little pissant of a country, yet “willing to defy Russia” and send one of their 12 qualified soldiers to Ukraine. And if war breaks out? Hide, and cry, and demand the US “fulfill its treaty obligations”.
Canada shouldn’t even BE in NATO.
“. . . yet ‘willing to defy Russia’ and send one of their 12 qualified soldiers to Ukraine.”
Not really. Just willing to talk about it. And I much prefer talking to actually doing it. Safer for everyone.
“Canada shouldn’t even BE in NATO.”
No one should. The alliance should have disbanded when the Warsaw Pact did.
Agreed. But if we ARE going to have a social club, Canada doesn’t qualify for membership.
Good Hells, my country can be intensely stupid at times.
I mean, when our Deputy PM’s grandfather ran a pro-Nazi newspaper in the Ukraine back in the day, guess I shouldn’t be terribly surprised that the Cdn gov’t would come in on the wrong side over there, consistently.
Both the US and Canada have looong and ugly relationships with Ukrainian Nazis and neo-Nazis. They played footsie with Banderists as they organized stay-behind anti-Soviet guerrillas in the wake of WWII, spirited more than a few out and over here in various ratline operations, etc. Canada was a popular destination because of the large Ukrainian-Canadian population already there, especially in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. But plenty in Ontario, too.
They already have troops there. That’s how NATO has been supplementing the lack of available Ukrainian conscripts. IMO it’s bullshit that NATO troops were merely “training” and not operating the arms themselves.
https://sonar21.com/what-did-the-cia-know-and-when-did-it-know-it/
What Did The CIA Know And When Did They Know It?
“The Western plan was simple, audacious, and delusional — i.e., using Ukraine as a military proxy, defeat Russia, and humiliate Vladimir Putin; apply Western economic sanctions that would devastate the Russian economy and further erode support for Putin; break up the Russia Republic into 41 new countries. Sounds crazy, but take a look at what Angel Vohra wrote in Foreign Policy Magazine in April 2023:
The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, an independent U.S. government agency with members from the U.S. House of Representatives, Senate, and Departments of Defense, state, and Commerce, has declared that decolonizing Russia should be a “moral and strategic objective.” The Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum, comprising exiled politicians and journalists from Russia, held a meeting at the European Parliament in Brussels earlier this year and is advertising three events in different American cities this month. It has even released a map of a dismembered Russia, split into 41 different countries, in a post-Putin world, assuming he loses in Ukraine and is ousted.
Western analysts are increasingly pushing the theory that Russian disintegration is coming and that the West must not only prepare to manage any possible spillover of any ensuing civil wars but also to benefit from the fracture by luring resource-rich successor nations into its ambit. They argue that when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 the West was blindsided and failed to fully capitalize on the momentous opportunity. It must now strategize to end the Russian threat once and for all, instead of providing an off-ramp to Putin.”
Did the CIA and the WEF foresee that most European nations would ultimately be dismantled into multiple sovereigns, ala Yugoslavia?
There may be enough dissent brewing in Germany that could easily envisage three new sovereigns from what the current government has wreaked.
It`s been the wet dream of the American / Europeans to break up Russia since the end of WW2 simply put it ain`t going to happen , any NATO move to invaded Russia will result in Europe becoming ASH .
It’s been a ridiculous policy/cultural mentality, although I’d say it’s promoted moreso from the USA/UK Empire dictat than any other singular EU nation.
Continental European nations have suffered more than the USA/UK ever did or will and they know better what their actual trade and resource needs are.
The problem is that it doesn’t match the policy and wishes of the Empire and it’s parent. “We’ll dictate what is good for you. Understand? How the f*ck do you know what’s good for your country and culture!?!?”
(sarcasm on)
Forget the hell the Empire is causing globally.
It’s for everyone’s good. Instead, we should focus on Russia’s ambitions take over all of Europe.
Because that’s exactly what Putin plans on doing. Isn’t it?
(sarcasm off)
The plan to break up Russia is much older than WW2. The Brits and Europeans had an eye on that land mass since the time of Napoleon.
Morons don’t remember what happened early in the war when a Kinzhal took out a base in western Ukraine used by NATO to train Ukrainians over the years. Killed several hundred “mercenaries.” Russia will be happy to repeat that for neo-Nazi Canadian-Ukrainians…
What can you expect from a country that honored a Nazi who killed Jews, Gypsies, and Slavic people with impunity. Canada gave a murderous Nazi a standing ovation in their parliament!
Even more disgusting than obama/Joey Biden!
Thank you, Canada.
It is a joke, Canada has three helicopters and from that two are broken.
I suggest to all families to sue the puppet PM of Canada if their sons are killed in Ukraine. That part of the world is not Canada’ national interest. It is a sinister scheme to get ethnic Ukies in Canada vote.