Frankreich „muss den Verlust seiner Kinder akzeptieren“ [in a war against Russia] warnt der Stabschef der Verteidigung

Hopefully they don’t lose their country.

Again.

Again, the obsession with children.

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France is a scared chicken, soon will be without its head and paralysed by pure chaos and populism.

Yes, there is direct danger from the nazis ruzzia but everyone is still turning a blind eye to that and not doing anything.

Ukraine is taking a massive hit and in fact is a shield which is protecting Europe from swaths of rabid barbarians. But Europe is not grateful enough, we probably will never see French troops in Ukraine. We would sooner see rabid barbarians in France.

The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.

No way people will grasp the subtlety. When people signal they are ready to stand on the line together and credibly signal „one more step and you will be fighting all of Europe“, Russia will weigh up our economic and demographic strength and back down.

When people telegraph very clearly they are not prepared to take any risk, as NATO did with Ukraine, Russia will judge that if push comes to shove we will back down and we can be victimized as smaller nations one by one.

Its an extension of „if you want peace, prepare for war“. I kind of thought we learnt this lesson with Mr Hitler and Mr Wilhelm who both misjudged Britain’s willingness to stand with France. But it seems to have been forgotten.

I also find it kind of revolting the implication from people’s reactions that soldiers are fine to die („its their job“), but the idea that the rest of us should ever suffer is unthinkable. Many soldiers are 18, 19, 20 year old kids with their lives ahead of them – we should be fine that they die while 30, 40, 50 year old blokes sit happily at home and go on with life as normal. Yuck.

Majority of French youth come from foreign backgrounds and most have no loyalty or patriotic feelings to France, so good luck getting them to sign up to go fight Russia

When he talks about the children of France, they talk about its soldiers. People take it all at face value, like it’s generalized conscription…

At least someone understands that shit can go kinetic at somepoint (or not) and that Bunker Grandpa is not a rational actor. Better late then never, right ?

Yes, more blood sacrifices for the dark lords known as BAE systems, Elbit systems and Raytheon.

Allons enfants de la patrie, le jour de gloire est arrivé!

No shelf respecting gen z male is dying for a country that has abandoned them. I am joining russia before that.

I’m French, feel like a patriot (*something I strongly separate from the far-right traitors staining that term*), but this grand statement made me angry.

How do they believe we, the people, will have a high morale in case of war, consider how our elites are behaving like weasels and mercenaries licking the billionaires asses? Do they somehow believe a society of inequalities and „might makes right“ can foster strength and citizenship, a sense of duty? They can go impale themselves on Dubaï chocolate for all I care.

I could fight for my country, no problem with that, and I mean it seriously. But then it means I expect respect in return. For me, for the retirees who workers their ass off for decades, for the public education of our children, for the farmers, for my buddies being unfairly racialized, molested for free by the police, or discriminated against. Respect first, then *after* we can talk about pulling the next Crimea War campaign.

Russia will never come to France. They can’t even take Donetsk oblast. Mass mobilization in western Europe is very unlikely to be needed. More likely is mass mobilization in Poland and Baltics + professional military from other countries. 

People need to get more serious, Russia is attacking and advancing in ukrainian territory for almost 4 years now, they are threatening and attacking verbally its neighbours and other european countries every day. They want to destroy the ukrainian language and culture, and also the source of what made ukrainians revolt against their corrupt russian puppet government, Europe and the values of freedom and equality before the law it represents. I never thought I would say this a few years ago, but war isn’t even likely, it will be necessary for our defence.

I’m not sure we need to go to the trenches facing the ruskies. We need 1000 tactical nukes in Europe and thousands of high precision cruise missiles with its own navigation system (not gps, etc). And if the ruskies dare to attack just unleash these on moscow, st petersburg…

Unless parents are gonna volunteer to the army in sufficient numbers and the army chooses to employ older people, than it is the youth who will have to serve and end up as casualties.

Here in Finland most men finish mandatory 6-12 months military service at around 18. Unless the army chooses to use older men who did their service decades rather than years ago, then the numerically minute youth will be the ones paying the price of defending our freedoms as a nation.