Headline is a bit misleading, it is Frenchmilitary INSTRUCTORS that are coming to Ukraine, to help Ukrainian troopos, It does not sound like France is sending direct boots on the ground.
What a terrible title to these news… Its big news that French military instructors are actually going into Ukraine, but the newspaper clickbait it to make you check if France is basically joining the war…
Focus on the correct and worthy news instead of underwhelming it
During the Vietnam “conflict”, advisors were also sent. Ground troops were soon to follow.
In this present scenario, both sides are pushing the envelope and guessing that neither will take a lighter to it.
Those instructors will need armed protection. Of course it would be insane to have them in country without anti-aircraft support. And if you’re going to have AA, you better have logistics. And logistics needs troops to protect it. And you’ll need counter-intelligence in there to make sure the enemy doesn’t catch wind of anything and your troops can be trusted. Plus you’ll need vehicles to transfer things in. Also all your test equipment for training should be ready for live fire.
At this point who is left to train that hasn’t been trained by other advisors? The conscripts they’re currently enlisting? Are they still going to try for these all or nothing counter offensive? Are they shifting more toward defense?
Putin’s not gonna be happy about this, regardless of whether they’re instructors or not.
What’s going to happen if these instructors get killed in a Russian strike? Russia has specifically targetted foreign volunteers in strikes in the past so we can assume they would do it again.
The French military is going to modern warfare school. The purpose of this deployment is to gain insight, practical experience and direct knowledge of the Russian army so NATO can better face them once Putin attacks Poland and the Baltic states.
The Kerch strait bridge has an expiration date and when Russia can’t resupply Crimea, the action will shift north. The biggest challenge lies ahead.
But wait a minute aren’t the Russians there to save Ukraine from Nazis is now France coming to help them as well?
I really wish that as time goes by Russia gets pushed back to the 2014 line.
Si NATO s’emmelle, Les Russes l’auront dans le cul!
So have all you cheering redditors registered at your local military recruiting station yet?
Little by little 🙂
I thought there was some chatter about France sending a small number of combat troops to occupy lower priority areas far away from the frontline (like to prevent an unlikely, but not impossible amphibious landing near Odesa). Could also be done along the border with Belarus.
Ah yezz, yu peut yeur left arm up en zen ze right arm en you say very loud “I zurrender!” Zet is how we deu it en France! Vive le resistance!
Crimean war 2
I like how quickly it was memory holed how the internet was laughing at the absurd Russian idea that NATO troops have and will be in Ukraine.
Clickbait
I genuinely don’t understand why people, let alone him if he were, think that France would send actual citizen-soldiers to go fight in UA with all that’s going on at home. It’s easy for support to be verbal and in spirit, aid, and etc but going to fight would be hugely unpopular especially with going on with retirement, the economy, and everything else going on. It’s like Rishi in the UK, this would only appeal to the most liberal boomers who never be sent. It’d be political suic*** and Macron in a fragile enough state as it is and the French actually protest things unlike many places west of them.
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Headline is a bit misleading, it is Frenchmilitary INSTRUCTORS that are coming to Ukraine, to help Ukrainian troopos, It does not sound like France is sending direct boots on the ground.
What a terrible title to these news… Its big news that French military instructors are actually going into Ukraine, but the newspaper clickbait it to make you check if France is basically joining the war…
Focus on the correct and worthy news instead of underwhelming it
During the Vietnam “conflict”, advisors were also sent. Ground troops were soon to follow.
In this present scenario, both sides are pushing the envelope and guessing that neither will take a lighter to it.
Those instructors will need armed protection. Of course it would be insane to have them in country without anti-aircraft support. And if you’re going to have AA, you better have logistics. And logistics needs troops to protect it. And you’ll need counter-intelligence in there to make sure the enemy doesn’t catch wind of anything and your troops can be trusted. Plus you’ll need vehicles to transfer things in. Also all your test equipment for training should be ready for live fire.
At this point who is left to train that hasn’t been trained by other advisors? The conscripts they’re currently enlisting? Are they still going to try for these all or nothing counter offensive? Are they shifting more toward defense?
Putin’s not gonna be happy about this, regardless of whether they’re instructors or not.
What’s going to happen if these instructors get killed in a Russian strike? Russia has specifically targetted foreign volunteers in strikes in the past so we can assume they would do it again.
The French military is going to modern warfare school. The purpose of this deployment is to gain insight, practical experience and direct knowledge of the Russian army so NATO can better face them once Putin attacks Poland and the Baltic states.
The Kerch strait bridge has an expiration date and when Russia can’t resupply Crimea, the action will shift north. The biggest challenge lies ahead.
But wait a minute aren’t the Russians there to save Ukraine from Nazis is now France coming to help them as well?
I really wish that as time goes by Russia gets pushed back to the 2014 line.
Si NATO s’emmelle, Les Russes l’auront dans le cul!
So have all you cheering redditors registered at your local military recruiting station yet?
Little by little 🙂
I thought there was some chatter about France sending a small number of combat troops to occupy lower priority areas far away from the frontline (like to prevent an unlikely, but not impossible amphibious landing near Odesa). Could also be done along the border with Belarus.
Ah yezz, yu peut yeur left arm up en zen ze right arm en you say very loud “I zurrender!” Zet is how we deu it en France! Vive le resistance!
Crimean war 2
I like how quickly it was memory holed how the internet was laughing at the absurd Russian idea that NATO troops have and will be in Ukraine.
Clickbait
I genuinely don’t understand why people, let alone him if he were, think that France would send actual citizen-soldiers to go fight in UA with all that’s going on at home. It’s easy for support to be verbal and in spirit, aid, and etc but going to fight would be hugely unpopular especially with going on with retirement, the economy, and everything else going on. It’s like Rishi in the UK, this would only appeal to the most liberal boomers who never be sent. It’d be political suic*** and Macron in a fragile enough state as it is and the French actually protest things unlike many places west of them.