Especially if the West sends "peace troops"....
These initiatives, in the way they've been presented so far... are an absolute joke.
I saw 40,000.
What is 40,000?
40,000 is the number of troops Ukraine deployed to Kursk, and in Kursk they are losing territory daily. Within a few weeks, their salient into Kursk will be all but erased.
40,000 means 20,000 - because men need rest and rotations. You can't keep 40,000 indefinitely on the line. There must be a minimum ratio of 1:1.
40,000 won't be taken seriously neither by the Ukrainians or us. If we really decide we're angry, and we want to go and bash some Ukrainians heads in, it'll be easy enough to go over these dupes in the middle and do the job. The same for Ukraine.
If you want a credible peacekeeping force, it has to be on the order of the "Allied Forces in Germany". In the FRG, NATO kept approximately 500-700K men deployed.
Half a million NATO forces - that's a credible deterrent.