Schill said France could engage a division of 20,000 troops within 30 days to operate as part of an allied coalition. Paris, he added, would be able to command a force of around 60,000 soldiers made up of French and other allied troops. The French army comprises some 121,000 soldiers, with 24,000 reservists.
This coming from the same France that was too chickenshit to intervene to reverse the Niger coup that evicted the French from one of their most important neo-colonies. Excuse me if i don’t take their threats too seriously… I’ll believe it when i see it.
Bit of a different situation, methinks. AFAIK to get ot Niger, they’d have to fly across Algerian airspace - which Algeria has closed for military aircraft. To get to Ukraine, they’d have to move across Germany and Poland - both of which are in NATO and will likely be of assistance.
Moving a military through all of Europe towards Russia… where have we seen that before?
They may as well call it doing a Hobbit, because every time they tried that they went There And Back Again. After Napoleon tried it Russian troops ended up in Paris, after Hitler tried it Soviet troops ended up in Berlin. Do they somehow hope third time’s the charm? Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is usually not a sign of sanity.
If they wanted to they could have bullied Algeria into letting them through.
It’s a good opportunity for a stakeholder analysis.
When you tabulate who stands to benefit and who stands to lose from French troops being deployed to Niger compared to being deployed to Ukraine, it’s very obvious that the French government serves the interests of groups other than the French people, or even itself.
How would changing the flag on the uniforms help? They have already been using western equipment and failing.
They can’t actually fight under the French flag because feigning surrender is a war crime
Yeah yeah when a government wants to do something they just do it, they don’t announce it a million times beforehand.
Unless you’re Ukraine announcing months in advance exactly where you’re going to launch your big “counter-offensive” giving Russia all the time in the world to prepare defensive lines.
They “COULD” do a lot of things. Lol.
They’ll need 300k to change the tide of the war…
60k is a blood sacrifice.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
French troops are ready for “the toughest engagements,” the commander of the country’s ground forces has said, as President Emmanuel Macron mulls an official military deployment to Ukraine despite repeated Russian threats of retaliation.
Macron is at the forefront of a nascent proposal by a handful of NATO nations to discuss sending allied forces into Ukraine in training and advisory roles, though not as combat troops.
“The sources of crisis are multiplying and carry with them risks of spiraling or extending,” the commander added, though he did not specifically refer to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz appeared to reveal in February, however, that small numbers of French and British personnel are assisting Ukrainian troops in the targeting of Storm Shadow/SCALP missiles provided by the two NATO nations.
President Joe Biden has “made it clear that we will not put U.S. boots on the ground,” National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said last week.
One European diplomatic official—who spoke with Newsweek earlier this month on the condition of anonymity—said: “I doubt you can change Russia’s calculus just by sending trainers to Ukraine.”
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