Tension has spiked in recent weeks in Eastern Europe over a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine, after Moscow deployed some 100,000 troops to the Ukrainian border.
The president of United States, Joe Biden, has clarified this Tuesday that it does not intend to deploy US or NATO forces in Ukraine, but has warned that it will impose economic sanctions on Russia if it carries out an incursion into Ukrainian territory.
“We have no intention of deploying US or NATO forces in Ukraine.”, Biden said when asked by the press.
The president has insisted that Washington and its allies are prepared to impose sanctions on Russia and, in addition, he has said that he is prepared to directly sanction his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, something that his predecessors have avoided.
These words from the tenant of the White House come just one day after the Department of Defense announced this Monday that it is preparing up to 8,500 soldiers for a potential deployment in Eastern Europe.
According to the Pentagon, these soldiers would be willing to collaborate with the NATO Response Force in case the Atlantic Alliance decided to deploy these troops.
Tension has skyrocketed in recent weeks in the face of a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine, after Moscow will deploy some 100,000 soldiers on the Ukrainian border.
Faced with this situation, the ukrainian parliament has issued a resolution in which it asks the United Nations and the European Union to stop the “Russian threat of invasion” and calls for condemning Russia’s actions and stopping Moscow’s “blackmail”.
In addition, he has asked to use “all possible diplomatic means to facilitate the de-escalation of the situation” and withdraw “Russian troops from the borders of Ukraine” to ensure that Russia “abandons its aggressive intentions to redistribute areas of influence”.
For his part, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, considers that Europe is experiencing “the most dangerous moment” since the end of the Cold War.
Europe has seen in the last two years “the most serious deterioration of its security environment, to the point that I am convinced that today we are experiencing the most dangerous moment of the post-Cold War period. We face the risk of a major military conflict in our continent”, he stated.
Spain bets on a dialogue “with red lines”
On the other hand, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, EU and Cooperation, Jose Manuel Albares, has made it clear that the Spanish government is still committed to dialogue to resolve the current crisis with Russia over Ukraine, although it has insisted that there are certain “red lines” that cannot be accepted and one of them is to negotiate ” under threat.”
Albares has appeared urgently in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Congress of Deputies to present the Government’s position regarding the crisis and to demand the “unity” of all parliamentary groups, just as there is already within the EU and in NATO. As he explained, this position is governed “by four ‘d’: diplomacy, de-escalation, détente and dissuasion”.
In the minister’s opinion, the deployment of more than 100,000 Russian soldiers on the border with Ukraine “is not justified for defensive reasons” while the security demands made by Russia seek nothing but “isolate Ukraine from the West and block NATO enlargement” in addition to trying to recover the former Soviet sphere of influence.
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