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#EU: Should the EU deploy military "trainers" into Ukraine?" Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Editor-in-Chief: Strategic Europe, in Berlin.

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🗓️ 22 May 2024

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#EU: Should the EU deploy military "trainers" into Ukraine?" Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Editor-in-Chief: Strategic Europe, in Berlin.
https://carnegieendowment.org/europe/strategic-europe/2024/05/judy-asks-are-europeans-prepared-to-send-troops-to-ukraine?lang=en

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0:00.0

This is

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CVS I in the world.

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I'm John Bachelor, welcoming Judy Dempsey,

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the editor-in-chief of Strategic Europe,

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she's in Berlin for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

0:15.0

The news that very much illustrates that turmoil in Europe right now about Ukraine's disintegrating front line as best we can understand fog of war.

0:27.5

Warsaw, Reuters.

0:29.2

Poland has arrested nine people in connection with acts of sabotage committed in the country on the orders of Russian

0:35.2

services according to the Prime Minister Donald Tusk. Warsaw says its position as a hub for

0:40.6

supplies to Ukraine has made it a key target for Russian intelligence services.

0:45.7

I begin there because Judy has asked a question of her colleagues about the possibility

0:51.7

of Europe sending trainers, troops.

0:56.0

There are many ways to talk about this during the Vietnam War, the US called them advisors.

1:02.0

It's a military deployment into a combat zone. Are Europeans prepared

1:06.4

to send troops to Ukraine is the question. Judy, a very good day to you. Poland is saying

1:12.4

that they're sabotaged threat or underway by the Russian

1:17.0

Intelligence Services against a member of the NATO EU. That would be Poland. At the same time we're debating whether the EU, NATO, should

1:28.6

or could or can or will issue in some fashion orders to military personnel to move into Ukraine the

1:37.6

territory of Ukraine. I have all of these responses from your colleagues very carefully arranged, but I want to understand the scale of this.

1:48.0

Ever since Emmanuel McCrone, the President of France, introduced the idea of EU troops in Ukraine. It's been a debate here.

1:57.2

Has it been a debate in Europe? Is this dominating a conversation? Are we talking about

2:01.8

specialized debate.

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