Posted on 10/13/2022 1:00:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin
"Our doctrine rests on the fundamental interests of the nation," Macron told France 2 on Wednesday. "They are defined clearly and wouldn't be directly affected at all if, for example, there was a ballistic nuclear attack in Ukraine, in the region."
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There seems room to persuasively argue it is the Biden family's personal interests in Ukraine that is at risk rather than America's. We taxpayers could well be paying the way for him to avoid very bad publicity.
It’s actually a blessing in disguise. Because had it become another WWI-like stalemate, the Red Army would have swooped in and gotten all of Europe.
“Who cares what happens to that corrupt POS Ukraine?”
those freepers who make those “Russian losses” threads..
I agree. I really don’t care. We should not be involved but the f***tards in DC have to put their hands in everyone else’s business. I say Putin, nuke away...it’ll destroy the cash cow our DC elites have used for years.
EU responds:
Russia’s military will be “annihilated” by Western forces if Russian President Vladimir Putin uses nuclear weapons against Ukraine, the European Union’s top diplomat has warned.
“Any nuclear attack against Ukraine will create an answer — not a nuclear answer, but such a powerful answer from the military side that the Russian Army will be annihilated,” European Union High Rep. Josep Borrell said Thursday. “This is a serious moment in the history, and we have to show our unity, our strength, and our determination. Complete determination.”
That statement marks the most specific warning to Putin issued in public by a senior Western official. President Joe Biden’s administration has offered more ambiguous vows that Russia would face “catastrophic consequences” for a nuclear strike, but Borrell’s statement suggests that trans-Atlantic policy regarding that scenario is trending toward the militant posture that Poland and other Central European governments deem necessary to deter Putin.
“Putin is saying he is not bluffing,” Borrell told the European Diplomatic Academy in Bruges. “Well, he cannot afford bluffing. And it has to be clear that the people supporting Ukraine, the European Union and the Member States, and the United States and NATO are not bluffing either.”
The statement was an unusual one for Borrell, who leads the diplomatic corps of a European bloc that historically has functioned as an economic and political bloc, not a military power. Yet, it does punctuate his contention that the war in Ukraine “is changing the European Union” into a “more assertive” geopolitical power.
It also came on the heels of more conciliatory remarks from French President Emmanuel Macron, who emphasized Wednesday that “a ballistic nuclear attack in Ukraine” would not provoke a nuclear response from Paris, one of NATO’s three nuclear-armed states.
“Our doctrine rests on the fundamental interests of the nation,” Macron told French media.
“They are defined clearly and wouldn’t be directly affected at all if, for example, there was a ballistic nuclear attack in Ukraine, in the region.”
There’s no necessary contradiction between that statement and the message from Borrell, given the EU official’s emphasis that the Western response he had in mind is “not a nuclear answer.” Polish officials have made the same distinction while arguing for a “devastating” response to any nuclear attack.
“To the best of our knowledge, Putin is threatening to use tactical nuclear weapons on Ukrainian soil, not to attack NATO, which means that NATO should respond in a conventional way,” Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau said last month. “But the response should be devastating. And I suppose this is the clear message that the NATO alliance is sending to Russia right now.”
In France they call him Macron le Poltron.
Verdun - French were crazy crazy brave!
During WWII the French soldier was betrayed by the French politicians and to some extent their military leadership.
The Italians also get an unnecessary bum rap. In WWI look at their battles in and along the Alps. The battles along the Ilonzo River which I think there might have been as many as twelve almost all of them showing the typical WWI tactic of charging through machine gun and artillery fire. Italians and Austro-Hungarians bled until there was no blood to bleed. The Italians finally collapsed at Caporetto under a combined German\Austro-Hungarian assault. I think Hemingway was in this battle as an ambulance driver. In WWII the Italians had to fight with for the most part inferior equipment and leadership on the side of someone they for the most part felt they should fighting against not allied with. Remember Fascist Italy almost came to blows with Nazi Germany over the German annexation of Austria. Many of the Fascist leadership were appalled Mussolini threw in with Hitler!
So let me get this straight... Earlier this year Rusdian TV plotted out how it’d nuke France, then repeatedly belittled Macron, then attempted to get the far right pro Putin lady elected...
And Macron still can’t find any balls?
The tradition of the average Frenchman being betrayed by his leadership continues.
100% agree.
But it seems the escalation will continue since our politicians wish to instigate.
Nobody wants to be part of Biden’s war - well, except for Freepers, who can’t get enough of it.
The world created by President Alzheimer’s.
If putin nukes Ukraine, he is begging to be killed!
“The head of EU diplomacy Borrell announced a non-nuclear response in the event of a Russian nuclear attack”
“EU refuses to stand up for Ukraine in nuclear conflict with Russia”
https://lenta.ru/news/2022/10/13/sdal_nazad/?utm_source=yxnews&utm_medium=desktop
Clueless is what clueless does.
Yo sport, you won’t have to worry about Putin “begging to be killed” IF nukes are utilized in Ukraine.
You know why?
Cause near all the world will be too busy bending over kissing their collective arses good-bye........
Typical French Surrender Monkey.
“ France might as well just surrender now.”
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My goodness, FRANCE IS BEING INVADED?
France and Germany will have to deal with Russia’s intermediate range missiles. We’ll have our hands full with their long-range stuff.
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