Ex-CIA Chief Floats Idea of American-Led Multinational Force in Ukraine

In organizational terms, the coalition could be something along the lines of the American-led Multi-National Force that operated in Iraq between 2004 and 2009.

AP/Efrem Lukatsky
A Ukrainian tank at Bakhmut, the site of the heaviest battle against the Russian troops in the Donetsk region, October 26, 2022. AP/Efrem Lukatsky

Could an American-led coalition of the willing be used in Ukraine to counter Russia? A former CIA director and retired four-star Army general, David Petraeus, made that suggestion in a recent interview with the French news magazine L’Express. 

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