French President Emmanuel Macron has once again said NATO should not rule out sending troops to Ukraine despite the risk of direct war with Russia, which could quickly turn nuclear.
Macron sparked an uproar when he first made the comments about NATO troops deploying to Ukraine last month and has defended the bellicose rhetoric each time he’s been asked about it.
In an interview on French national television, Macron said NATO was not in the “situation” to send troops to Ukraine today but said that “all these options are possible.”
The talk of sending Western troops to Ukraine has put more attention on the fact that there is already a small number of NATO special operations forces inside Ukraine. The Discord leaks revealed last year that 97 NATO special operators were in Ukraine, including 15 French soldiers.
But what Macron appears to be considering would be a larger public deployment, something Moscow has warned would make a direct Russia-NATO war inevitable.
In the TV interview, Macron claimed that the war in Ukraine was “existential” for Europe and said that “if the situation should deteriorate, we would be ready to make sure that Russia never wins that war.”
The French leader criticized NATO countries for previously ruling out weapons systems for Ukraine that were later sent. “Two years ago we said we would never send tanks. We did. Two years ago, we said we would never send medium-range missiles. We did,” he said. “Those who say ‘let’s not support Ukraine’ do not make the choice of peace, they make the choice of defeat.”
Teddy Roosevelt talked about speaking softly and carrying a big stick … young Macron speaks loudly and carries a limp noodle …
Teddy was a fat pig who gave us the Spanish-American war as well as the Philippine-American war. He also acted as a spoiler to shaft Taft to usher in Woodrow Wilson, Federal Reserve, IRS and WWI.
His one good proposal was a National Health Plan. His “rough riders” were anything but. Roosevelt wrote his own history of them, and the silent movies depicted them as heroic.
His “National Health Plan” was fashioned after the German plan by Chancellor Bismarck which is still the base of Germany’s current health plans.
He was also a racist and an egomaniac like all presidents are but also an amazing person:
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
So … until you too have been instrumental in building something on the order of the Panama Canal, then perhaps all we are doing is carping from the sideline … the joyless job of the critic.
Besides, my original quote of his stands in re France’s current little Napoleon 🙂
Oh yes, the Panama Canal trope, we can thank the Panamanians for the toil. Fatso, just did what the bankers told him to do.
If Macron goes to Napoleon’s site and places his ear on the monument, Macron will be able to hear him cussing him out in his Corsican accent.
Man! The tankies are all worked up today! Are you guys/gals upset because Putin is having a bad week? (And right before his re-election!)
Seems you tankies can’t even count on the French right-wing:
https://twitter.com/UkrReview/status/1768025409524777336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1768025409524777336%7Ctwgr%5E4860823d5000a55b4c9124861d75b7f75828ba9b%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailykos.com%2Fstories%2F2024%2F3%2F14%2F2229345%2F-Russian-stuff-blowing-up-Russians-flee-ahead-of-anti-Putin-Russian-militias
Tankies are all going nuts.
Whats a tankie?
There are some millennials who invent words then circulate it in the comment section to look important.
Macron is competing with Baerbock for Darwin Award.
I suggest Macron pick up a weapon and join the game.
I suggest Macron pick up a weapon and join the game.
All of the sudden, since about 4 to 5 days ago, Ukraine who isn’t and never was part of Europe, though part of Russia for about 300 years, has become existential for Europe. Macron invented that. Unhinged and resulting from sheer panick, about as transparantly nonsensical it is possible to fabricate he nevertheless should probably fetch himself a copyright for this slogan, for from now on going to be the new Gospel.
Media are going to assume Macron’s Revelation as conventional wisdom. You are a Putin stooge if you remember a week ago.
“Conventional Wisdom”? No, warmed-up “Cordon Sanitaire” of the 1930’s.
Macron was promoted to the office by Rothschild. He doesn’t care about French people. Even less he cares about Ukrainians.
Macron in France, Sunak and (soon to be) Starmer in UK, Sholtzi in Germany … all poured from the same banking friendly mold …
That is a classic oligarchy rule. All of them are a bit nervous about Trump. I think they don’t need to worry too much. Trump is flexible.
I don’t know … I think Trump was flexible the first time around. But they screwed him over pretty well and are aiming to destroy him and his family financially … he might feel he’s in it for survival now …
Exactly, they’re in these positions to achieve the agenda of the Western Global Elite, the Lords of the Earth. Without a continuos and expanding supply of resources and markets they will run out of places to put their excess capital to work. Russia being a very, very juicy prize, and one they had a taste of for 10 years, it’s hard for them to accept they’ve lost it.
But, since Sunak & Schultz are quiet… Macron thinks he is the King of Europe….!
And Even less Putin care about Russians and you still support him.
Fluffer.
Why is it no one talks about the fact Putin tried his best to avoid the war the evidence is clear he did , and why is it no one wants to talk about Biden / Boris telling Zelensky no peace deal with Putin but to fight a proxy war ? .
Can’t wait to see how it all ends! Come on, man! Come on, Macron!
I didn’t expect it from the French, but I don’t care. I’m glad a few good French males survived WWI to deliver you to us. I’m tired of waiting.
It will end with a rainbow orgy.
The Medvedev team hating on France now. 🤣🤣
The French leader criticized NATO countries for previously ruling out weapons systems for Ukraine that were later sent. “Two years ago we said we would never send tanks. We did. Two years ago, we said we would never send medium-range missiles. We did,” he said. “Those who say ‘let’s not support Ukraine’ do not make the choice of peace, they make the choice of defeat.”
What an effing idiot. Talking about what “We” did before that didn’t start WW3 must mean anything “We” do going forward won’t start WW3. But he also fails to mention that after “We” broke all those barriers and sent the more lethal weaponry, the best Ukraine can claim is a stalemate and a manpower shortage.
In the 1930’s France launched the concept of a “cordon sanitaire” against the “godless” Soviet Union. Poland was going to be the kingpin of that “cordon”. For Great Britain, Chamberlain came on board. Hitler’s Germany was considered essential as a backstop for Poland. No one proposed to place French and/or British troops into Poland. Hitler did that. That was the essence of what generated “Munich”.
Now Macron is advocating a “cordon sanitaire” against Putin-Russia with Ukraine taking the place of Poland. This time the difference is that he asks for NATO troops into Ukraine to reinforce the new “cordon”.
That will happen if Ukraine cannot drive the Russians out.
In the 1930’s, Stalin would not have responded to the placing of German troops into Poland as “backstops” for the “cordon”. He was not ready for war. Hitler was ready. Instead Stalin destroyed the “cordon” with the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. An analogous pact is not possible today.
What will NATO do? What will Biden do? Biden is in a far more exposed spot than FDR was in 1939.
My prediction: like Vietnam, it will start with NATO advisers. We may even overthrow the Zelensky government if it is too contrary. Then NATO troops will arrive.
The more cautious opening-move of this dangerous chess-game would be to place NATO troops into Moldova but does Moldova want them?
There is no opening move for this game that wouldn’t be batshit crazy.
Yes, Moldova wants them very much. What kind of question is that?
They know if Ukraine falls, they will be next.
Hitler wannabe Putin will not stop unless he is stopped.
The delusional Moron Macron…!
“Moscow has warned a Western troop deployment would make a direct Russia-NATO war inevitable”
Wait, wait; but hasn’t Moscow claimed since the beginning of the war that they have been fighting NATO in Ukraine?
Another red line? 🤣👍
Macron and Pavel seem to be the only leaders in Europe with a pair of balls. I wish we had guys like them in the US. Trump and Johnson are pathetic.
So, you’re in favor of WW3.
A fench disease called Napoleonitis