[hinckley buzzard]

IDK if France is doing this or not, but if they are, I would not be so sure that their troops would take a licking. The Russians have been relentless but not very efficient and force protection seems to be an alien concept to them. I could easily see a force of France’s best troops making a lot of mincemeat against the Russian conscripts.

[MinorityRepublican]

I could easily see a force of France’s best troops making a lot of mincemeat against the Russian conscripts.

It's Ukraine. The French troops wouldn't be that motivated to fight in a war that they had nothing to do with in the first place.

[kiryandil]

I could easily see a force of France’s best troops making a lot of mincemeat against the Russian conscripts.

The elite French troops that were quartered in the Kharkov hotel were unable to be reached for comment.

[PAR35]

Their best troops - the Foreign Legion - got creamed by the Vietnamese, even when bolstered by seasoned SS troopers. They then lost to the French in Algeria, then the regulars lost to the Algerians.

In World War II, the French lost to the Thais, the US, and the French. They lost to the Germans 3 wars in a row. More recently they surrendered to India without a fight. They lost to the Egyptians.

I’m sure I’m missing a few.

[hardspunned]

I don’t think the French troops would ever see the battlefield. The Russians can reach out and touch them anywhere in Ukraine once they’ve crossed the border. I think that’s where they’d be attacked.

[House Atreides]

“I could easily see a force of France’s best troops making a lot of mincemeat against the Russian conscripts.”
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Nothing like hubris to be a catalysts for defeat. France’s best troops today have, if any at all, experience fighting only untrained African Muslims. The current Russian forces are made up of units that, in addition to being well trained, have become battle hardened and honed their tactics through bitter experience. All their units are made up largely of veterans who have long since had their baptisms of fire. New recruits are integrated into units alongside the veterans and benefit from their experience.

Never underestimate an enemy… particularly a battle hardened and determined one,

[rxh4n1]

“France’s best troops making a lot of mincemeat against the Russian conscripts.”

They’ll send the Foreign Legion, not any actual Frenchmen.

[TECTopcat]

Yes, French got a bad rap because they surrendered during WWII but it was the French who the German geerals who said they respected and said fought like lions when they were closing in on Dunkirk not the British. Despite their ealry exit from WWII,driven by the English refusal to lend them modern aircraft, The French suffered more casulties than the British did for the entire war and that is with the British figting in both the Pacific and Europe