France is leading a new coalition that aims to provide Ukraine with “medium and long-range missiles and bombs,” President Emmanuel Macron has announced. He has also not ruled out deploying ground forces to support Kiev in future.
Macron made the remarks following a summit of Ukraine’s backers on Monday, intended to demonstrate unwavering support for Kiev amid the suspension of American aid.
According to the French leader, the newly established coalition seeks to enable Ukraine to “carry out deep strikes.” There is a broad consensus to do even more and faster together” to support Kiev, Macron added.
Speaking on Monday, Macron also claimed that the deployment of Western troops to Ukraine cannot be ruled out, insisting that Paris will “do everything necessary to ensure that Russia cannot win this war.”
His remarks were echoed by French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal in comments to the RTL broadcaster on Tuesday.
Paris agreed to ship the rockets, which have a range of over 250km (155 miles), last July, months after the UK agreed a similar move.
Russia has consistently condemned Western deliveries of long-range weaponry, saying it will only serve to prolong the hostilities unnecessarily without changing the final outcome.
@TheRightBitternGreen3mos3MO
Macron is clearly signaling that EU countries are considering an overt ground intervention into Ukraine. It's more explicit language than he's ever used. Strange culmination of France fusing together with the historically rabid anti-Russia countries like Poland and Baltic states.
Apparently the idea is that these interventions would be organized bilaterally/multilaterally between France and other participating countries, outside any formal NATO framework. The idea has been floated in French media before, but this is it's most explicit promotion by Macron.
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@Bip4rtisanOliviaLibertarian3mos3MO
US/NATO would have to institute draft to be useful. Ukraine already has access to all the NATO intelligence and satellites. So NATO going in will not bring any new tech.
Actually it will make it easier for Russia because Russia will finally shoot down NATO recon aircraft.
@RightW1ngLillianSocialist3mos3MO
Time to build the nuke bunker
@Gr33nPartyOilGreen3mos3MO
That would immediately expose all these countries to missile attacks from Russia and possibly fight for Suvalki gap Russia badly needs. Would not happen.
@GrizzledMothTranshumanist3mos3MO
Won't happen outside NATO. If any of the Baltic states does that, they are toasted. That'll give a pretext for Russian invasion and/or destruction of their capitols. Say hello to a land path to Kaliningrad.
Strange because Macron has been more pacific with respect to Gaza.
Still, Germany says no so it's unlikely that this is anything more than idle banter.
@lemans3427Republican3mos3MO
This would be done bilaterally or multi-laterally, outside the NATO framework. So France bands together with some combination of Czechia, Poland, Baltics, Bulgaria, Romania, etc. to conduct the operation, bypassing Germany. UK potentially also involved
Poland and Czech Republic are also objecting now, though. Anyway, according to Slovakia's Fico, who leaked that whole thing in the first place, there were more countries than France willing to send troops on a bilateral basis.
@C4pitalistJonnyPatriot3mos3MO
France is free to send all the troops to Ukraine that it wants.
A western country facing an invasion should seriously back up and look at the big picture before sending it's protection.
Especially to defend a situation that is becoming increasingly difficult to determine the legitimacy of the conflict.
@ExecutiveAlexaDemocrat3mos3MO
So the deaths are all fake ? You people will say anything ti support Mother Russia.
Please stop funding Democrats' money laundering scheme in Ukraine.
@ExecutiveAlexaDemocrat3mos3MO
You are either supporting Ukraine or Russia. It's obvious you support Putin. You also, apparently,don't realize what could happen to our Allies and our military if Putin wins Either you don't know or don't care.
If the west cannot weaken Russia using western arms, money, & Ukrainian cannon fodder, how will the cheese-eating surrender monkeys in Paris fare?
@GerrymanderKoalaSocialist3mos3MO
France just lost militarily to Niger, who they thought was their vasal. And now they want to take on a modern well equipped military like Russia?
All those countries combined could barely muster an army, much less one to wage an offensive war against Russia.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution3mos3MO
Really? This is the hill they want to die on? Russia annexing provinces *THAT WANT TO BE PART OF RUSSIA*? They want to start WORLD WAR III, and drag the United States kicking and screaming along with them into that dark abyss of nuclear conflict that will wipe from the face of the earth the human race? How can a human being like Macron be so incomprehensibly STUPID?
@9CJ6CB63mos3MO
I’m pretty sure I debunked every shred of that argument before, but I’ll just paste the past message of mine in response to the last time you claimed we had any proof that the regions wanted to leave:
“Ah yes, the sham referendums of the “Donetsk People’s Republic” (Captured), the “Luhansk People’s Republic” (Also captured), the Kherson Oblast, and the Zaporizhzhia Oblast (Both partially under Russian administrative control). The referendums were done with extremely bad methodology, with proven reports of Russian coercion on citizens, limit… Read more
@Patriot-#1776Constitution3mos3MO
So, since you believe those regions don't actually want to leave, you're under the illusion that we must support Napoleon Macron in his warmongering quest to launch Western Civilisation into a new dark age of bloody world war?
@9CJ6CB63mos3MO
I dont BELIEVE they don’t want to leave, I KNOW they don’t want to believe, and personally, I do think it’s not a horrible plan, but first we need to talk about getting Russia to the table for actual talks and dialogue to keep this from spreading outwards.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution3mos3MO
I personally think jeopardising the survival of the human race to help one dictatorship win a hopeless war against another dictatorship is, by every conceivable metric, a "HORRIBLE PLAN"
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