The White House has dismissed French President Emmanuel Macron's suggestion that Western troops could be sent to Ukraine to assist in Kyiv's increasingly difficult war against Russia.
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Macron said during a meeting in Paris on Monday that "nothing should be excluded" when it came to backing Ukraine in its two-year fight to ward off invading forces, claiming to a crowd of pro-Ukraine backers that there was "no consensus at this stage" about putting Western boots on the ground.
U.S. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said during a press conference at the White House on Tuesday that President Joe Biden was "crystal-clear" in his opposition to sending U.S. or NATO troops to Ukraine, a move that could obligate the strategic alliance to fight Russia and spark the beginning of a world war.
Kirby said that the possibility of France or other NATO nations sending troops to Ukraine was a "sovereign decision that every NATO ally would have to make for themselves," while also pointing out that NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg already said that the alliance would not be sending troops.
Along with the US, several more NATO allies also reject Emmanuel Macron's idea of sending troops to Ukraine.
