The French Army is planning to test its ability to fight a “high-intensity conflict” with Russia during drills in Romania set to take place next year, The Defense Post reported on Wednesday.
French troops will participate in the large-scale drills, which are intended to practice a rapid deployment to NATO’s “eastern flank.” The goal is for a French brigade to reach Bucharest in 10 days.
Gen. Bertrand Toujouse, the head of the French Army’s land command for Europe, made clear the drills were about preparing for war with Russia, which he called the “designated enemy.”
“We used to play war. Now there’s a designated enemy, and we train with people with whom we’d actually go to war,” Toujouse said.
France has a goal to be ready to deploy a battle-ready division of soldiers in 30 days. France and other NATO countries are openly preparing for a future war with Russia despite the risk of the conflict quickly turning nuclear.
Andrius Kubilius, a former Lithuanian prime minister and the EU’s first defense commissioner, recently said Europe must be ready to fight Russia in six to eight years.
Earlier in the year, French President Emmanuel Macron repeatedly called for NATO troops to be deployed to Ukraine and said he was “finalizing” a plan to send French soldiers to the country to train Ukrainian troops. Macron appeared to back down on the plan following repeated warnings from Russia that any French troops would be considered legitimate targets.
On Wednesday, Macron visited a group of Ukrainian troops training in France for a photo op ahead of a visit from Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky, who will arrive in France on Thursday.
Just end the war and cut spending. Defend Europe with a few drones and some nuclear MAD.
War won’t be so profitable if it just requires low cost drones.
That's hilarious. France has zero ability to fight Russia, as does Britain and Germany. The rest of NATO was never a factor (aside from the US, of course.)
$800 billion EU military spending
$120 billion Russian military spending
how much graft is buried in that $800 billion ?
Proportionally, probably about as much as is buried in that $120 billion.
But at the same time, he was telling to us people that France should stop delivering arms to Israel, claiming to be consistent in seeking a ceasefire, and he pulls this stunt instead?
Screw Around and Find Out – FAFO. Of course, every nation associated with America expects the US to come to the rescue and fight for them.
Would most of these yapping little dogs be so bellicose if America said, "Hell No We Won't Go to War For You"?
https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-russias-lavrov-warns-dangerous-consequences-us-ukraine-1964468?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Oh, France. Between practicing decimation in WW1, building the Maginot Line prior to WW2, and now looking to set a Paris – Dakar Rally / Cannonball Run time trial speed record with conventional forces in case of a nuclear war … have you EVER been ahead of the curve on the military realities in Europe, since before Napoleon was sent off ?
Conveniently that's the time it takes to rebuild the depleted arsenals after giving everything to Ukraine.
Kubilius was a good conservative prime minister, but he thinks it's still the Soviet Union next door. So instead of siding with a conservative, nationalist neighbor he sides with the leftist Biden regime that wants to fill Lithuania and every other European country with Somalis and Arabs. He hasn't seen that yet because he thinks this issue is far away from Lithuania. He only needs to go to Sweden to get a reality check. Murder doubled from 2015 to 2023 with the flood of "refugees from Syria," such as gangs from Morocco and wherever. And rape rose 60%.
Putin has condemned the mass immigration, saying it is destroying the West, but because Putin is trying to rehabilitate the memory of the Soviet Union as being strong and detaching it from the communist part, he makes a lot of enemies in Eastern Europe. He plays right into the hands of those who are the actual Marxists today.
Putin's a nationalist – condemning "mass immigration" plays to his political base.
Same way that nationalists in the West hide their a$$es and dog-whistle their racist nationalist inclination by "projecting" and claiming that "leftists" are causing a "problem" by filling countries with supposed "undesirable" nationalities (in some cases providing 2-4 examples by name, usually North African or Middle Eastern) when there's no evidence of "leftists" like Biden doing that – to his own country or others where he isn't president.
Western nationalists think they're clever, but sometimes people (in the US or with those initials) see right through their bulls**t.
France has not fought a real war in 3 generations – they lost that one. Mon generale, stick to what you know: perfume and champagne.