Samuel Charap
Despite all the differences between President-elect Donald Trump's team and key European governments, both sides seem to agree on the merits of at least one policy: deploying a European force to Ukraine after the fighting there ends.
In a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and France's Emmanuel Macron last month, Trump reportedly said that European troops should be present in Ukraine to monitor any cease-fire. An anonymous member of his team put it more bluntly: “We are not sending American men and women to uphold peace in Ukraine… Get the Poles, Germans, British, and French to do it.”
Given the likelihood of sharp disagreement between the Trump administration and Europe on issues ranging from trade to climate, this consensus might seem a cause for celebration. But the idea of putting European boots on the ground in Ukraine is deeply problematic.
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