Dearlove questions vague article-five-like guarantees and says only practical guarantee is air cover for Ukraine.
“What the hell does that mean? Article five like security guarantees. I mean, I think the only practical security guarantee personally is a guarantee of air cover”
Dearlove argues air cover is the only practical security guarantee Ukraine would accept.
“I think the only practical security guarantee personally is a guarantee of air cover because the Ukrainians will not accept, I think, boots on the ground and neither will the Russians.”
Dearlove proposes NATO aerial cover from Poland as the only viable Ukraine ceasefire arrangement.
“So it seems the the only viable arrangement in my view to, as it were, have a effective ceasefire is to have aerial cover provided by NATO nations, which could be immediately deployed, but they're not going to be obviously based inside Ukrainian territory.”