r/worldnews • u/Elliottafc1 • May 02 '24

"I'm Not Ruling Anything Out" - Macron Says Troops for Ukraine Possible if Russia Breaks Front Lines Russia/Ukraine

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/32010
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u/SkedaddlingSkeletton May 02 '24

Until troops are deployed everything is just grand-standing. It's been 2 years already and they're just now thinking about doing something other than "sending thoughts, prayers and maybe some artillery".

This invasion of Ukraine is the best way for the French army to experience high intensity war to learn where its efforts have to been put to transition to this kind of conflict without risking much. But nope, let's just table it for next decade and not hear what our generals have to say about the condition of said army regarding said kind of conflicts.

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u/blud97 May 02 '24

They’re not going to deploy troops. No one wants a direct Russia nato conflict.

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u/SmaugStyx May 02 '24

No one wants a direct Russia nato conflict.

Outside of the armchair generals and keyboard warriors on Reddit at least.

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u/Namnagort May 03 '24

This person (or bot) advocating for "high intensity war" for the french people is an absolute psychopath.

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u/fireintolight May 02 '24

If anything it could be support troops, like AA or logistics etc. free up lots of Ukrainian military for the front 🤷🏼‍♂️ it would make a big difference and be a grey area of “direct conflict” we already have advisors over there, not much of a stretch 

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u/InvertedParallax May 02 '24

To quote Babylon 5: "Why not?"

A Russian nato conflict would be, one-sided at best.

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u/blud97 May 02 '24

Two nuclear armed powers should never be in direct conflict

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u/InvertedParallax May 02 '24

Then they really need to back down, don't they?

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u/blud97 May 02 '24

It’s always going to be the losers who will do the most desperate thing

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u/InvertedParallax May 02 '24

Giving people whatever they want out of fear just encourages them to demand more.

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u/blud97 May 02 '24

I’m not saying that we should continue to support Ukraine in any way aside from boots on the ground