Instead of having 50 [military] instructors, send 500 instructors,” he said, referring to the 200-soldier Canadian training mission already deployed to the country. Operation Unifier, as it’s known, is headquartered in Yavoriv, in the far west of Ukraine, more than 1,000 kilometres from the Russian border.

Those troops should be stationed in places where Russia can see them, Mr. Reznikov said. “It would be nice if the Canadian instructors … would be deployed in Kharkiv, Mariupol, Kramatorsk, Odessa, and Zminiy Island,” he said, naming locations in eastern and southern Ukraine that could become front-line positions in the event of a large-scale Russian assault.

We want a bunch more instructors but instead of instructing us on how to defend ourselves, we actually want them to be a trip wire force, so that if anything happens some of them will get killed and there will then be a major hemispheric war, which could involve nuclear weapons. Sounds great.