UK Floats Post-War Peace Deployment as Geneva Trilateral Talks Poised to Restart

European talk of a post-conflict peace force echoes the 1995 IFOR/KFOR deployments that stabilised Bosnia and Kosovo after U.S.-brokered deals; then, too, troops only crossed the border once a Dayton-style accord existed. Healey’s signal underscores two longer arcs: Europe’s rapid militarisation and its assumption of roles the U.S. has partially vacated since Washington’s 2025 aid draw-down, and Russia’s century-old pattern—from Brest-Litovsk 1918 to Afghanistan 1989—of overextension driving bargaining only after steep casualties. Whether Geneva yields an armistice or another false dawn, the willingness to plan boots-on-the-ground peacekeepers marks a pivot from ad-hoc arms transfers to long-term security architecture—one that could shape the European order for decades, or prove as transient as the 1920s Locarno optimism if political resolve or resources wane over the next 100-year cycle.