Canada is ready to contribute troops to Great Britain and France’s “coalition of the willing” peace insurance if there is an armistice in Ukraine, said Defense Minister Bill Blair on Wednesday.
He made the comments at the annual Forum Conference of Defense Associations Institute in Ottawa.
After a weekend meeting of allies in London, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that Canada “examined the best ways to help.” He admitted that all options were on the table.
Blair’s statements on Wednesday went one step further and said that active discussions were underway.
“Canada is ready and able to contribute to this force,” Blair told reporters after his speech. “But we also believe that there are important discussions that have to take place in relation to security guarantees for Ukraine and foreign forces that we serve.”
The National Defense Minister Bill Blair said on Wednesday there were discussions that have to be conducted about security guarantees for Ukraine and for those who would serve there.
The British Prime Minister Keir Starrer has cited the initiative, which is given in the Oval Office between US President Donald Trump and the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Under the direction of Great Britain and France, peacekeeping in a number of European countries in eastern Ukraine was able to put boots in the foreground if there was an armistice or peace settlement. The idea would be that the presence of Western troops would prevent Russian President Vladimir Putin from keeping himself and then trying to conquer the entire Ukraine.
However, the strength would have to be secured with security guarantees, especially by the Americans. The lack of such guarantees in a mineral resource agreement between the USA and Ukraine contributed to the public argument between Trump and Zelenskyy.
Starrer said that Great Britain, France and Ukraine work on a peace agreement that could be presented to Washington.
The US Vice President JD Vance rejected the efforts and said that an American share in the Ukraine economy was a “better security guarantee than 20,000 soldiers from a random country that has not waged war in 30 or 40 years”.
The comment triggered outrage in Great Britain and among us Democrats. Among other things, Vance’s statements ignore the fact that Canadian, British and French armed forces fought alongside Americans in Afghanistan. Great Britain also joined Iraq’s invasion of Iraq in the United States.
The “coalition of the willing” approach would enable the countries – all NATO members – to act in a group, but not under the roof of the western military alliance. This would deal with the political differences of opinion at NATO, Hungary and Slovakia both pro-Russian positions and created obstacles to the Allied consensus.
So far, Russia has rejected the idea of peacekeeping – NATO, European Union or in any other way.
The Baltic States – Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia together with Finland – have a quiet interest in joining Great Britain, France and Canada. The Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was recently quoted as if he was open to the idea of contributing peacekeeping in Ukraine.
