Donald Trump wants European soldiers to be stationed within Ukraine as a way to keep the peace and maintain stability. As we read in the Wall Street Journal:

The outlines of President-elect Donald Trump’s initial efforts to end the war in Ukraine from his visit to Europe last week are starting to emerge for the first time. The main takeaway: Europe would have to shoulder most of the burden of supporting Kyiv with troops to oversee a cease-fire and weapons to deter Russia.

At a meeting in Paris on Dec. 7, Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and French President Emmanuel Macron that he doesn’t support Ukrainian membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, but that he wanted to see a strong, well-armed Ukraine emerge from any cessation of fighting, according to officials briefed on the meeting.

Trump said that Europe should play the main role in defending and supporting Ukraine and that he wanted European troops present in Ukraine to monitor a cease-fire, according to the officials. He hasn’t ruled out U.S. support for the arrangement, although no U.S. troops would be involved, the officials said.

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Trump isn’t wedded to any specific Ukraine plan yet, aides say, and hasn’t thought deeply about the issue as he prepares to take power. Members of his transition team and close confidants are drawing up proposals and briefing him. Key decisions will come after his national-security team is in place and Trump has had further conversations with allies—and potentially Putin himself.

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The discussions over placing European troops on the ground in Ukraine are still at an early stage, with several unresolved questions, including which European countries would be involved, the number of troops, Washington’s role in supporting the arrangement and whether Russia would accept a deal involving troops from NATO countries.

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Any European troops on the ground would be part of a specific peacekeeping or cease-fire monitoring force and wouldn’t be a NATO operation, officials said. The Biden administration, many European capitals and the incoming Trump administration have all spoken of wanting to avoid any direct fighting between Russia and NATO troops in Ukraine, fearing it could escalate into a global conflict. However, there are widespread fears that even if Moscow accepts a cease-fire, it will use it to rebuild its forces and try again to invade unoccupied areas of Ukraine.

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Zelensky on Monday welcomed Macron’s suggestion of putting troops on the ground. He stressed, however, that Kyiv “must have a clear understanding of when Ukraine will join the EU and when it will become a NATO member. Understanding our future, such guarantees would be very effective.”

France’s president Macron spoke with Zelensky about this idea, as we read in the New York Times:

Earlier on Wednesday, Mr. Zelensky spoke with President Emmanuel Macron of France. He said they discussed “the presence of forces in Ukraine that could contribute to stabilizing the path to peace.” The peacekeeper proposal has gained traction in recent days after Mr. Trump reportedly pushed for it in a meeting in Paris with the Ukrainian leader and Mr. Macron.

Mr. Macron had previously floated the idea of European troops in Ukraine in February, possibly to train Ukrainian soldiers. Mr. Zelensky said earlier this month that Mr. Macron had revived the idea recently, suggesting that Western troops could be present on Ukrainian territory to guarantee a cease-fire while Ukraine is not a NATO member.

Could Germany become to Ukraine what Turkey is to Syria? The US gave the green light to Turkey to enter Syria to be a force to keep order in that country. Now the US could possibly tell the Germans and their European allies to do the same for Ukraine. Are we witnessing the revival of both Turkish and German power happening simultaneously?