BBC: Europe would want a US security guarantee before deploying soldiers to Ukraine. It may not get one.

The BBC’s article is more realistic with regard to the European and UK’s possibilities to take part in the current Ukraine peace process.
The BBC writes that Europe and the UK try to push themselves onto the negotiation table by offering peacekeeping troops for Ukraine. Their options are limited, their effort unrealistic.
The BBC is pessimistic as Europe and the UK are unable to send a large contingent to Ukraine. Specialists have calculated that Europe can not send more that 40-50’000 soldiers, a fraction of what was demanded by Selensky and reasonably necessary.
The BBC calls it now a backyard force, not to be positioned on the contact line, rather of symbolic value to tell the Ukrainian leadership that they are not alone.
But for such symbolic purpose, the EU troops could better stay in the EU …
In addition, the EU and UK will understand that such a mission can be like Russian Roulette.
Trump stated that he will not send US troops and that any European troops in Ukraine will not be protected by NATO art. 5. The US will not get involved in Ukraine with own troops. PM Starmer admits that there is a risk for UK troops to fall.
The BBC also admits that Europe has not enough money for defense and was so far relying on the security protection of the US. If Europeans now oppose to the commander in chief Trump, they risk losing that protection.
But also the BBC is unable to give a better solution for peace in Ukraine than what Trump is doing now. As well, European governments have no better idea than letting the Ukrainians win on the battlefield. This is and was unrealistic.
European voters unlikely will allow sending their men to Ukraine in a war with Russia. While the big spending on Ukraine has, so far, passed unconsidered in some European elections, in particular, as Europe uses financial tricks instead of tax increase for Ukraine’s financing, a direct involvement in Ukraine with body bags returning will lead to a public uprising. Same in the US – where the Biden Administration sent soldiers only on under-cover missions and no deaths were reported.
Europe is in an impasse and may only accept Trump’s terms for the moment. This means to accept a deal for a security structure which is also acceptable to Russia, with consequences such as unwinding sanctions and taking the burden of costs for the mess in Ukraine.
Having no solutions, no instruments of power or influence, it is understandable that European leaders react hysterically, now off for a “meeting of the willing” in Paris to discuss and agree on … what?