Published March 17, 2024
Sending NATO troops into Ukraine would trigger a “Third World War”, warned Italian Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani, who went on to accuse French President Emmanuel Macron of exploiting the war for personal political purposes.
Senior Italian government officials castigated President Macron for his recent spate of militaristic suggestions that NATO soldiers could be deployed to Ukraine and therefore potentially engage with Russia.
Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani said that Italy’s position is “very clear”, saying that while Rome plans to continue supporting Kyiv’s fight to fight back the Russians, both through financial and military aid, this does not mean Italy is at war with Russia and, therefore, there will be “no direct intervention by our military in that conflict is envisaged, with tanks, planes or men.”
“It has never been discussed within NATO and we don’t understand why today we need to evoke such a scenario, which would have very dangerous consequences, even a Third World War,” Tajani warned.
“Our goal is to achieve peace, not to widen the war. This is why we help Ukraine to resist, this is why they will not be left alone, to reach an end to hostilities without one state having occupied the other. But it has nothing to do, I stress, with our direct intervention,” he told the Milan-based Corriere della Sera newspaper.
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Published March 17, 2024
ROME – Italy’s Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said sending NATO troops to Ukraine would mean risking the explosion of the third world war.
“I think that NATO shouldn’t enter Ukraine. It would be a mistake. We need to help Ukraine defend itself, but entering the country to wage war against Russia means risking World War Three,” Tajani said in an interview at an event in the northern Italian city of Verona.
The foreign minister’s remarks come after French President Emmanuel Macron floated the idea of sending troops to defend Ukraine against its aggressor.
“Our army is good at what they do, protecting our ships in the Red Sea, or do well what they do in Lebanon, Africa and Iraq. They are bearers of peace and freedom,” he said.
