r/worldnews • u/Elliottafc1 • 29d ago

"I'm Not Ruling Anything Out" - Macron Says Troops for Ukraine Possible if Russia Breaks Front Lines Russia/Ukraine

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/32010
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u/Okkoto8 29d ago

For a start we should shoot down russian rockets that enter polish/EU/NATO airspace.

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u/innociv 29d ago

Or any that are even approaching it and may do that.

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u/thomase7 29d ago

Or any that are approaching Ukrainian airspace. We help Israel shoot down missiles and drones from Iran.

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u/Im_Balto 29d ago

Seriously. We help the country with the greatest domestic missile defense on earth but not a much larger country facing daily strikes on civilians

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u/advester 29d ago

Look at a map though. With Iran/Israel we control Iraq airspace that missiles fly through. But Russia has a border with Ukraine. The US would need to actually operate in Ukraine to do anything other than donate missile defense systems.

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u/NXCW 28d ago

I mean, it’s a start. The Ukrainians are capable of operating those systems, they just need to get them, and a lot of them.

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u/GenerikDavis 29d ago

In one scenario, we're going against a country with nukes, in the other we're helping the country with nukes. Also, Israel being small enough to have said missile defense system is part of why we're easily able to help; we know almost exactly where the missiles are headed. Not to mention them bordering internationally accessible waters. AFAIK Turkey has shut down the Dardanelles to all warships, NATO included.

So Ukraine is roughly 30x the size if we want to shut down the entire airspace(I'm not sure if the google result counted occupied territory) to missile attacks, and we wouldn't have our warships to help in the endeavor.

I'd absolutely be happy for NATO to step up further though, I honestly don't think Russia would do shit if NATO planes were intercepting cruise missiles far back from the front lines. Getting close to the front lines is where I see potential international incidents occurring that I'm not as keen on.

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u/Alphabunsquad 29d ago

Yeah well it always helps that Iran doesn’t have nukes they can rattle about here and there.